Kiyo Murashima
Kiyo Murashima | |
|---|---|
村島 喜代 | |
| Member of the House of Representatives | |
| In office 10 April 1946 – 31 March 1947 | |
| Preceded by | Constituency established |
| Succeeded by | Constituency abolished |
| Constituency | Niigata 1st |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 6 October 1892 |
| Died | 11 March 1982 (aged 89)[1] Niigata City, Niigata, Japan |
| Party | Progressive |
| Other political affiliations | Democratic (1947) |
Kiyo Murashima (Japanese: 村島喜代, 6 October 1892 – 11 March 1982) was a Japanese politician. She was one of the first group of women elected to the House of Representatives in 1946.[2]
Biography
Murashima was born in Niigata Prefecture in 1892.[3] She graduated from Niigata Prefectural Nagaoka Girl's Normal School in 1911, after which she studied at Tsuda Girl's English School.[3][4] She then returned to Niigata and worked as a dormitory supervisor at Niigata Prefectural High School for Girls,[4] and became a member of the Personal Affairs Mediation Committee.[5]
Murashima contested the 1946 general elections (the first in which women could vote) as a Japan Progressive Party candidate, and was elected to the House of Representatives.[5] In March 1947 the Progressive Party merged into the Democratic Party. Murashima was a Demopcratic Party candidate in the April 1947 elections, but was not elected.[6] She subsequently worked as a mediator for Niigata family court,[3] and died in 1982.[4]
References
- ^ Nichigai Asoshiētsu (1989). 日本著者名人名典拠錄. p. 4188.
- ^ Otsuka Kiyoe (2008) Japanese Women's Legislative and Administrative Reforms in the Postwar Era Bulletin of the Faculty of Education, Kagoshima University
- ^ a b c 議会制度百年史 衆議院議員名鑑. Printing Bureau of the Ministry of Finance. 1990. p. 639.
- ^ a b c Mitsuyo Iwao (2006). 新しき明日の来るを信ず－はじめての女性代議士たち. p. 180.
- ^ a b Analysis of the 1946 Japanese General Election United States Department of State, 1946, p68
- ^ 朝日選挙大観. p. 491.