Ichikawa Fusae (1893 - 1981) Ichikawa Fusae was a feminist and politician who led the women's suffrage movement in Japan for much of the twentieth century. Campaigning for social equality, she was elected five time to that nation's parliament. In 1924, she and other women activitists founded the Fusen Kakutoku Domei ("Women's Suffrage League"). They succeeded in gaining the right to organize and attend political meetings, from which they had previously been barred. In the 1920s one of the two major political parties supported woman suffrage. The Japanese military took control of the country in the 1930s and quashed all democratic movements, including the movement for woman suffrage. After the Allied nations defeated Japan in 1945, Fusae, other Japanese feminists, and women staff officers of the Allied Occupation aligned in proposing the new Japanese constitution should enfranchise women. They hoped women would use the ballot to make Japan less warlike.