The Archive · 1930

Civil Rights for Women

Tokyo, July 25.

The officials of the prefectural bureau of the Home Affairs Minis decided to introduce in the Dill proposing to grant civil rights to women, and are now engaged in drafting the general regulations of the hi According to this plan, all women over 25 years old residing for over two years in the same place are granted the privilege of electing or Doing elected to the assemblies of ies, towns and villages first, and then of prefectures.

There are some 12,800,000 women wie are eligible under the present act, when it is promulgated Rengo.

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