Toshiko Matsuo
Toshiko Matsuo | |
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Member of the House of Representatives | |
In office 1946–1958 | |
Constituency | Kanagawa |
Personal details | |
Born | 14 July 1907 Yokohama, Japan |
Died | 3 June 1993 | (aged 85)4
Toshiko Matsuo (Japanese: 松尾トシ子, 14 July 1907 – 3 June 1993) was a Japanese politician. She was one of the first group of women elected to the House of Representatives in 1946,[1] serving in parliament until 1958.
Biography
Born in Yokohama in 1907, Matsuo was educated at Ferris Japanese-English Girls' School. She became an English teacher at the Yokohama YMCA and established her own school, which later became the Japan Women's English Academy.
Matsuo contested the 1946 general elections as a Japan Socialist Party candidate in Kanagawa, and was elected to the House of Representatives.[2] She was re-elected in 1947, 1949, 1952, 1953 and 1955 and became a member of the party's central executive committee. In 1948 Finance Minister Izumiyama Sanroku was forced to resign after attempting to kiss Matsuo and Harue Yamashita.[3]
After losing her seat in the 1958 elections, Matsuo unsuccessfully contested the 1960 elections as a Democratic Socialist Party candidate. She later joined the Liberal Democratic Party and became an advisor in Kanagawa Prefecture, as well as serving as chair of the Yokohama Citizens' Credit Union and president of the Matsuo Kosan company. She died in 1993.
References
- ^ Otsuka Kiyoe (2008) Japanese Women's Legislative and Administrative Reforms in the Postwar Era Bulletin of the Faculty of Education, Kagoshima University
- ^ Analysis of the 1946 Japanese General Election United States Department of State, 1946, p60
- ^ Amorous Jap Cabinet Minister Resigns The Miami News, 14 December 1948
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