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Keiko Sugita

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Keiko Sugita
Member of the House of Representatives
In office
1946–1947
ConstituencyIbaragi
Personal details
BornMarch 1908

Keiko Sugita (Japanese: 杉田馨子, born March 1908) was a Japanese politician. She was one of the first group of women elected to the House of Representatives in 1946.[1]

Biography

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Sugita graduated from the English Department of Japan Women's University in 1929. She married Shogo Sugita, a reporter for Yorozu Choho [ja].

After World War II, Sugita joined the Liberal Party. With her husband unable to run for office, she was a Liberal candidate in Ibaragi in the 1946 general elections (the first in which women could vote), and was elected to the House of Representatives.[2] She lost her seat in the 1947 elections, in which she ran in the Ibaraki 3rd district [ja].

With Shogo having died in 1946, Sugita later ran an inn at Shima Onsen.

References

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  1. ^ Otsuka Kiyoe (2008) Japanese Women's Legislative and Administrative Reforms in the Postwar Era Bulletin of the Faculty of Education, Kagoshima University
  2. ^ Analysis of the 1946 Japanese General Election United States Department of State, 1946, p95