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page 1Japanese feminists
Hayao Miyazaki
Japanese animator, film director, and mangaka (born 1941)

Yoko Ono
Yoko Ono is a Japanese artist, musician, activist, and filmmaker. Her work also encompasses performance art and filmmaking.
Akiko Yosano
Japanese tanka poet (1878–1942)
Fukuzawa Yukichi
Modern Enlightenment thinker, educator, philosopher, scholar, author, writer, journalist, translator, entrepreneur, and founder of Keio University in Japan's Meiji era (1835-1901)
Raicho Hiratsuka
Japanese anarchist feminist (1886–1971)
Noe Itō
Japanese anarchist, social critic, author and feminist
Nobuko Yoshiya
Japanese writer (1896–1973)
Megumi Igarashi
Japanese sculptor, manga artist, Sex-positive feminist (born 1972)
Yuriko Miyamoto
Japanese novelist, critic, member of the Japanese Communist Party
Sayaka Osakabe
Japanese women's rights activist

Shidzue Katō
Japanese politician (1897-2001)
Fusae Ichikawa
Japanese feminist politician (1893–1981)
Fumiko Kaneko
Japanese activist (1903-1926)
Yumi Ishikawa
Japanese actress
Yoshioka Yayoi
Japanese activist and physician (1871–1959)
Sawako Ariyoshi
Japanese writer and novelist (1931–1984)
Kanno Sugako
Japanese journalist (1881–1911)
Mizuho Fukushima
Japanese politician
Chizuko Ueno
Japanese sociologist
Ikumi Yoshimatsu
Japanese model
Komako Kimura
Japanese actress
Yoshiko Yuasa
Japanese translator
Akiko Dōmoto
Japanese politician
Toshiko Kishida
Japanese feminist & teacher (1864–1901)
Shigeri Yamataka
Japanese politician

Jun Tsuji
Japanese author, Dadaist, nihilist, Stirnerite, epicurean, shakuhachi musician, playwright and actor, feminist, and bohemian. (1884–1944)

Oku Mumeo
Japanese politician
Murasaki Yamada
Japanese feminist essayist, manga artist, and poet (1948–2009)
Takamure Itsue
Japanese activist
Fukuda Hideko
Japanese writer, educator and political activist (1865-1927)
Taki Fujita
Japanese educator
Chieko Takamura
Japanese painter and papercut artist (1886-1938)
Yoko Hayashi
Japanese lawyer
Tsuneko Gauntlett
Japanese temperance, suffrage and peace activist
Shimizu Shikin
Japanese novelist and women's rights activist
Kiyomi Tsujimoto
Japanese politician
Suzuyo Takazato
Japanese feminist and peace activist
Toshiko Tamura
1884-1945 writer
Kitamura Sae
literary scholar from Japan
Setsuko Migishi
Japanese artist (1905-1999)
Setsu Tanno
Japanese feminist and labor activist (1902–1987)

Toyoju Sasaki
Japanese activist
Ochimi Kubushiro
Japanese suffragist
Hirooka Asako
Japanese businessperson, educator, and social activist (1849-1919)
Takeuchi Shigeyo
Japanese physician and politician (1881-1975)

Mitsu Tanaka
Japanese feminist and writer (1943-2024)
Tari Ito
Japanese artist
Kyōko Asanuma
Japanese politician
Waka Yamada
Japanese feminist (1879-1957)
Ichiko Kamichika
Japanese politician
Misako Enoki
Japanese feminist

Tomi Kōra
Japanese politician
Keiko Higuchi
Japanese activist, journalist and writer (b. 1932)
Kazuyo Katsuma
Japanese businesswoman
Setsuko Hani
Japanese writer
Ayako Ishigaki
Japanese–American Communist activist (1903–1996)

Hanayo Ikuta
Japanese novelist, poet