Japanese Women and the Transnational Feminist Movement before World War II: Japanese Women in the Interwar Transnational Feminist Movement

Chronology

Chronology Meiji Period (1868–1912) 1867 meiji restoration 1868 national Charter Oath (Gokajô no Goseimon) An administrative order (Dajôkan Futatsu) 1871 iwakura mission; Tsuda Umeko is sent to America to study 1872 Prostitutes mandatory release (shôgi Kaihô rei) Ban on Christianity lifted 1880 regulations on Public meetings Ordinance (shûkai Jôrei) (revised in 1882) Criminal Code restricts abortion (revised in 1907) 1885 Ôsaka incident 1887 Peace Preservation Ordinance (Hoan Jôrei) 1889 meiji Constitution 1890 Political Assembly and Association law (shûkai Oyobi seisha Hô) 1894 First sino-Japanese War (1894–1895) begins 1898 meiji Civil Code 1900 Public Peace Police law (Chian Keisatsu Hô) Tsuda Umeko founds Joshi eigaku Juku 1901 Patriotic Women’s Association (Aikoku Fujinkai) is founded 1904 russo-Japanese War (1904–1905) begins iWsA launches in Berlin xii Chronology 1907 Sekai Fujin (Women of the World) is published (until 1909) Great Treason Trial (Taigyaku Jiken shinri) Hiratsuka raichô founds the Blue-stocking society (seitôsha) 1912 Carrie Chapman Catt and Aletta Jacobs visit Japan and meet Japanese women leaders Taishô Period (1912–1926) 1914 World War i (1914–1918) begins 1915 international Committee of Women for Permanent Peace (iCWPP) is organized 1919 league of nations is founded new Women’s Association (shin Fujin Kyôkai) is organized 1921 Women’s Peace Association in Japan (Fujin Heiwa Kyôkai) is founded red Wave society (sekirankai) is organized JWCTU’s Japan Woman suffrage Council (nihon Fujin sanseiken Kyôkai) is formed international Disarmament Week Washington Conference 1922 Article 5 of the Public Peace Police law (Chian Keisatsu Hô) is amended Charles and mary Beard visit Japan 1923 Great Kanto earthquake Charles and mary Beard visit Japan Tokyo Federation of Women’s Organizations (TFWO; Tokyo rengô Fujinkai) is organized 1924 Women’s suffrage league (Fujin sanseiken Kakutoku Kisei Dômeikai, renamed Fusen Kakutoku Dômei in 1925) is founded Johnson-reed immigration Act Shôwa Period (1926–1989) 1928 First Pan-Pacific Women’s Conference in Honolulu 1930 Fifth national Committee on the Cause and Cure of War (nCCCW) in Washington Gauntlett Tsune and Hayashi Uta show Japanese women’s peace petition to the nCCCW attendees Women delegates from the United states, Britain, and Japan present peace petitions to the london naval Conference Chronology xiii 1931 manchurian incident 1932 General Disarmament Conference in Geneva WilPF’s petition campaign 1933 Japan withdraws from the league of nations Third Pan-Pacific Women’s Conference in Honolulu 1935 WPAJ holds a peace song lyric-writing competition WPAJ sends friendly letters written by Japanese girls to the United states and China 1937 Fourth Pan-Pacific Women’s Conference in vancouver second sino-Japanese War breaks out 1938 Women’s suffrage league publishes Japanese Women 1940 national eugenics law (Kokumin yûsei Hô) 1941 Pacific War breaks out 1945 Japan surrenders Occupation by GHQ/sCAP under General macArthur begins Japanese government decides woman’s suffrage, October 10 macArthur announces reform directives, October 11 1946 First national election in which women can vote is held, April 10 1951 Peace Treaty is signed in san Francisco ...