En Sugawara
En Sugawara | |
|---|---|
| Member of the House of Representatives | |
| In office 1946–1947 | |
| Constituency | Iwate |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 27 February 1900 Shibutami, Japan |
| Died | 16 February 1994 (aged 93) |
En Sugawara (Japanese: 菅原エン, 27 February 1900 – 16 February 1994) was a Japanese suffragist and politician. She was one of the first group of women elected to the House of Representatives in 1946.[1]
Biography[edit]
Sugawara was born in the village of Shibutami (now part of Ichinoseki) in 1900. She attended Morioka High School for Girls and later graduated from Toita Sewing Teacher's School in 1929. She also became a member of the Iwate Poets' Association.[2]
After World War II, Sugawara joined the Japan Progressive Party. She was a JPP candidate in Iwate in the 1946 general elections (the first in which women could vote), and was elected to the House of Representatives.[2] After the party merged into the Democratic Party, she ran unsuccessfully for the new party in Iwate 2nd district in the 1947 elections. She subsequently contested the 1949 elections as an independent candidate, but failed to be elected.
She died in 1994.
References[edit]
- ^ Otsuka Kiyoe (2008) Japanese Women's Legislative and Administrative Reforms in the Postwar Era Bulletin of the Faculty of Education, Kagoshima University
- ^ a b Analysis of the 1946 Japanese General Election United States Department of State, 1946, p94