Fumiko Yoneyama
Fumiko Yoneyama | |
|---|---|
| Member of the House of Representatives | |
| In office 1946–1947 | |
| Constituency | Yamagata |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 25 April 1902 Tokyo, Japan |
| Died | 2 January 1998 (aged 95) |
Fumiko Yoneyama (Japanese: 米山文子, 25 April 1902 – 2 January 1998) was a Japanese politician. She was one of the first group of women elected to the House of Representatives in 1946.[1]
Biography
Yoneyama was born in the Kojimachi ward of Tokyo in 1902. She attended Tokyo Women's Normal School, after which she worked as a primary school teacher. She married Hachiya Yoneyama and the couple were evacuated to Akayu in Yamagata Prefecture in 1944.
In 1945 she retired from teaching and joined the new Chudokai (Middle Way Society) party established by her husband and became head of its women's section. She contested the 1946 general elections as a Chudokai candidate in Yamagata, and was elected to the House of Representatives.[2] She ran for re-election in 1947 as a Democratic Party candidate, but was unsuccessful.
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, p125