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Summary

New Japan Women’s League is a women’s organization in Japan formed by Fusae Ichikawa for gaining women’s suffrage and developing women’s policies such as lives, education and labors on November 3, 1945 after WWII. In 1950, New Japan Women’s League was renamed to the Women's Suffrage League of Japan. Thereafter, Women's Suffrage League of Japan had the basic principles of "equality, welfare, political purification, and permanent world peace" and promoted movements that connect between women and the Diet.

History of the establishment New Japan Women’s League

In Japan, voting and joining associations were completely banned for women in 1889 after the establishment of the Constitution of the Japan Empire by the Assembly Regulations and Peace Police Act. In 1905, socialist women started an opposition movement to reform the law and get rid of the ban. Later named the New Women's Association, in 1919 the socialist women’s organization succeeded in partly revising the Peace Police Act. In 1945, one of the members of New Women's Association, Fusae Ichikawa, established a new organization for women's suffrage movement, called the New Japan Women’s League. The New Japan Women’s League temporary declined because Fusae was purged by order of the General Headquarters of the Allied Forces in April 1947, but she was released from the purgeand she came back to the New Japan Women’s League in October 1950. She renamed to the Women's Suffrage League of Japan in November 1950 and promoted women’s movements.

Movements of New Japan Women’s League

The main movements of New Japan Women’s League are following :

-       Abolition movement of legal system against women

-       Political education movement for exercising of women’s suffrage more effectively

-       Establishment of policy related to women’s life, education, and labor

New Japan Women’s League (NJWL) put a headquarters in Tokyo and opened 35 branches all over Japan. The president of New Japan Women’s League, Fusae Ichikawa had started a movement that interests a large number of Japanese women in politics and improves their knowledge of politics since November 3, 1945 and gathered about 3000 women to the NJWL. Women in NJWL and Fusae also shaped a plan of women’s suffrage with the 43rd Prime Minister Higashikuni and politician, Hatoyama. The 44th Prime Minister Shidehara adapted women’s suffrage upon a cabinet decision and Home Minister Zenjiro Horikiri submitted the women suffrage bill of the House of Representative Election Law to the Diet on November 17, 1945. It was passed and women who are over 20 years of age voted for the first time under the Revised Election Law. The president of New Japan Women’s League, Fusae looked back and says, "Without the Occupation or the defeat ofJapan, the realization of the Japanese women's constitutional rights would not have been achieved so quickly." in an interview.

My Final Project
Summary:

New Japan Women’s League is a women’s organization in Japan that Fusae Ichikawa had formed for gaining women’s suffrage and developing women’s policies such as lives, education and labors in 1946 after WWII. After New Japan Women’s League was established, the election of members of the House of Representatives was amended under the lead of General Headquarters (GHQ), which occupied Japan and finally Japanese women gained suffrage and 39 women became member of the Diet in Japan. In 1950, New Japan Women’s League was renamed to the Women's Suffrage League of Japan. Thereafter, Women's Suffrage League of Japan had the basic principles of "equality, welfare, political purification, and permanent world peace" and promoted movements that connect between women and the Diet.

History of the establishment New Japan Women’s League:

In Japan, political women activity was completely banned in 1889 after the establishment of the Constitution of the Japan Empire because of Assembly Regulations and Peace Police Act. For the banning, women of socialism started opposition movement to reform the law in 1905 and they later called New Women's Association succeeded in partly revising the Peace Police Act in 1919. After that, one of the members of New Women's Association, Fusae Ichikawa made a new organization for women's suffrage movement, which is New Japan Women’s League in 1945. New Japan Women’s League temporary declined because Fusae was expelled from her official position, but after she depurged, New Japan Women’s League was renamed to the Women's Suffrage League of Japan in November 1950. Women's Suffrage League of Japan had the basic principles of "equality, welfare, political purification, and permanent world peace" and promoted movements that connect between women and the Diet.

Achievements of New Japan Women’s League (Women's Suffrage League of Japan):

New Japan Women’s League achieved mainly two things, which are gaining women’s rights to vote and women’s suffrage in Japan. New Japan Women’s League put a headquarters in Tokyo and opened 35 branches all over Japan. The president of New Japan Women’s League, Fusae Ichikawa started a movement that Japanese women attract the interests of politics and she was successful to get a lot of women together in order to oppose to the Peace Police Act. As a result, the Peace Police Act was abolished by an imperial ordinance on November 21st, 1945 and women finally gained the rights to join associations. Also, Home Minister Zenjiro Horikiri under the Shidehara administration submitted the reform bill of the House of Representative Election Law to the Diet and it was passed. Therefore, not only men but also women who are 20 years old or over were able to get the right to vote in Japan equally and women also gained suffrage. 

*Notes for planning of my Wiki assignment*

For summary paragraph that I wrote here, I'm not going to write whole paragraph on real Wiki page because the other writer has already written some similar sentences, so what I am going to do is adding some new information which I underlined to actual Wiki page of the first paragraph (Introduction). Also, I am going to entry both of the paragraphs about history of the establishment NJWL and achievements of NJWL to actual Wiki page as my Wiki project as well.

References:

Beauchamp, Edward (1998). Women and Women's Issues in Post World War II Japan. Taylor & Francis. pp. 38–45. ISBN 0815327315.

Gender Equality Bureau Cabinet Office "戦後（昭和20年）から国際婦人年前（昭和40年代）まで" Gender Equality Bureau Cabinet Office. Website.

Ishizuki, Shizue. (1998). "Women's Movement in Prewar Period."Electronic Library Service. pp.127-129

Konno, Tesuya. (2011). ”婦人参政権問題” ''函館市史. pp.117-122''

Masako, Kubo. (2017). ”女性参政権獲得の歴史” Public Interest Incorporated Foundation. p.4-5

Yoshiaki, Kimpara. (2016). The Encyclopedia of Women’s Liberation. Meikyosha, Isc. p.231. ISBN 4928200000078.

日本婦人有権者同盟 (1985) 日本婦人有権者同盟年表　参政権と歩んだ40年　1945年～1985年. p. 370. ASIN B000J6SUHK

Evaluate Wikipedia
As one of the viewers of the article called "Gender and Development", I think that it is well organized and most of points and topics are clear and easy to understand what the article says. Also, I could see that some people help each other in order to improve the article when I saw the Talk page of the article, which is good ways to make the article better and see whole steps they did for making the article. However, there are some parts the author still could not edit and I have a couple of advices that might help to improve the article.

One of the parts that they haven’t worked on is putting some pictures on the article. When I checked the Talk page of the article, one of people pointed out about putting pictures on the article. I don’t know they do not want to do that or couldn’t find a good picture, but I think that it’s a good idea to insert a graphic on the side of the article because I believe that pictures catch viewers’ eyes and improve the appearance of the article. The content of the article is mainly about gender and economic development, so I think that pictures related with these topics are good to put on the article. Another point that they had better to edit is highlighting the word, “the Equality and Human Rights Commission” in the article. When I was reading the article, the author uses the word normally in a sentence as an example of a study, but most people including me don’t know what it is and how it works. I checked the word and I found other Wikipedia page about “Equality and Human Rights Commission”, so I recommend highlighting it like I did so that viewers can go to the Wikipedia page directly and see more information about Equality and Human Rights Commission. Final part that I would like to give advice for the article is giving more information of alternative approaches, which are Marxism and Neo-Marxism, Dependency theory, Basic Needs approaches, Capability approaches and Ecofeminism. The section starts with the sentence, “Other approaches with different paradigms have also played a historically important role in advancing theories and practices in gender and development.” However, each explanation of these approaches doesn’t have enough information for making viewers understand why these approaches played important role historically in gender and development. I understand these approaches are not main topics to talk about in the article, but I recommend talking about a little bit more details of each approaches for making more readers understand easily.

Even though I pointed out a couple of points the author should consider about, I think that other things are really well done. For example, the structure is clear, the various aspects of the topic are balanced well and there are not any claims or frames that appear heavily biased toward a particular position. Also, I think that each fact is referenced with an appropriate and the information comes from scholar articles, which help the article well. The article is a good example of creating some articles in Wikipedia for me. I learned a lot of things by evaluating the article. For instance, articles need to be neutral and I should check other people’s advices on the Talk page in order to make the article better because there is sometime something that I missed or some points that readers weren’t able to understand. Thus, I learned not only how articles need to be but also how article could improve by other people's comments through out evaluating the article.

In conclusion, the overall article is well done and the article will be even better if the author consider about some points I pointed out before as a viewer of the article. I personally enjoyed reading the article because I hadn't looked at "Gender and Development" on the Wikipedia page before. Therefore, there are something I did not know about such as some of dominant liberal approaches and specific information of gender and development. Through out the article, I learned not only these new information and words but also a way to contribute a good article to Wikipedia.

Add Citation
In the article, "Gender and Development," I added one sentence with a source in the paragraph of criticism of WAD because the author didn't explain what exactly happened because of the criticism of WAD, which is a singular preoccupation with the productive side of women’s work, while it ignores the reproductive aspect of women’s work and lives.

In the article called "The Integration of Women into the Development Process': Some Conceptual Problem," Roberts Pepe argues that WID/WAD intervention strategies have tended to concentrate on the development of income-generating activities without taking into account the time burdens that such strategies place on women by the critic.

Topic for My Final Project
The article I plan to develop is “New Japan Women’s League.” In the article, the author gives us basic information of New Japan Women’s League, but it’s not specific. I think I will help the information to be more specific and contribute some specific details of history because New Japan Women’s League has long and important history for women in Japan. I also can use Japanese books and Japanese scorcher sources because I know Japanese so I think I can contribute the article more.