Editing Women's suffrage (section)

==== Japan ====
[[File:Woman's Rights Meeting Tokyo.jpg|thumb|Women's Rights meeting in Tokyo, to push for women's suffrage]]
{{Main|Women's suffrage in Japan}}

Although women were allowed to vote in some prefectures in 1880, women's suffrage was enacted at a national level in 1945 with the end of the world war.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ichikawa-fusae.or.jp/110/main.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080305105909/http://www.ichikawa-fusae.or.jp/110/main.htm |archive-date=March 5, 2008 |title=The Fusae Ichikawa Memorial Association |publisher=Ichikawa-fusae.or.jp |access-date=January 8, 2011}} Retrieved from Internet Archive January 14, 2014.</ref>

The campaign for women's suffrage started in 1923, when the women's umbrella organization [[Tokyo Rengo Fujinkai]] was founded and created several sub groups to address different women's issues, one of whom, [[Fusen Kakutoku Domei]] (FKD), was to work for the introduction of women's suffrage and political rights.<ref>{{cite book|access-date=2023-05-03|date=1998|first=Edward R.|isbn=978-0-8153-2731-8|language=en|last=Beauchamp|publisher=Taylor & Francis|title=Women and Women's Issues in Post World War II Japan|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mKNcjos0aH0C&dq=Tokyo+Rengo+Fujinkai&pg=PA41}}<!-- auto-translated by Module:CS1 translator --></ref> The campaign was gradually reduced due to difficulties in the 1930s fascist era; the FKD was banned after the outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese war, and women's suffrage could not be introduced until it was incorporated in the new constitution after the war.<ref>Suffrage and Beyond: International Feminist Perspectives.&nbsp;(1994).&nbsp;USA:&nbsp;NYU Press.</ref>