Fusae ichikawa

Japanese 1893-1981

After witnessing the women’s suffrage movement in the US, Ichikawa co-founded the Woman’s Suffrage League of Japan with Shigeri Yamataka in 1924. Six years later, the League held Japan’s first national convention on female enfranchisement. With the American occupation of Japan following World War II, Ichikawa fought for women’s suffrage to be included in the post-war constitution. She became the president of the New Japan Women’s League and her campaigning ultimately contributed to women gaining the right to vote in 1945.

Lin gained the provisional president’s support for female suffrage but he retracted it when the public went against the idea

Ichikawa was a tireless women’s rights activist in Japan