This name can also be formed from many other combinations of kanji characters.

Japanese female names in politics. First female Asian-American and first Taiwanese-American elected to Congress from New York. Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications. The first Japanese woman to be appointed a cabinet minister was Nakayama Masa who became minister of health and welfare in July 1960.

In the past women in Japan who defied expectations and pushed the needle on gender equality have faced backlash. Just 10 of politicians in Japans House of Representatives are female a gender imbalance that ranked the worst among G20 nations in new data released ahead of International Women. Marukawa who recently took on the womens empowerment portfolio after her predecessor Seiko Hashimoto was appointed head of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics organising committee said her opposition.

Served from 2017 to 2021. For instance in 2017 Yuka Ogata a local Japanese politician. Between the 12th and 19th centuries many women of the samurai class learned how to handle the sword and the naginata primarily to defend themselves and their homes.

In the past it was very common and traditional to use the kanji character ko a child at the end of female names. Nonetheless for thousands of years certain upper-class Japanese women have learned martial skills and participated in battles right alongside the male samurai. MASA 1-正 2-雅 3-昌 4-真 5-政 6-将.

Democratic 1983present Republican Before 1983. Vice President Annette Lu 2000. Unisex short form of Japanese names beginning with Masa- meaning 1 correct just 2 elegant 3 flourishing prosperous 4 genuine true 5 governing political 6 military.

Minister of Finance first appointed female minister Shirley Kuo 1988. Denotes the first female minister of that particular department. Japan ranked 165th out of 193 countries in the Women in Parliament in 2018 report published by the Inter-Parliamentary Union ahead of International Womens Day on March 8.