New_Japan_Women's_League
The New Japan Women's League (NJWL or Shin Nihon Fujin Dōmei) was a non-partisan[1] women's organization in Japan formed by Fusae Ichikawa on November 3, 1945, after WWII. The NJWL was established to improve women's legal status in Japan,[2] gain women's suffrage, develop policies for women's lives, education and work,[3] and inform Japanese women about democracy and citizenship.[4] The NJWL was influenced by pre-World War II suffrage organizations and did not mention gender equality or women in the workforce in its founding principles.[5] NJWL and Ichikawa worked to "struggle against conservative social taboos."[6] NJWL lobbied the government over laws and policies that were unequal in treatment of men and women.[1] 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.[3]