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Kiyo Takeda

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Kiyo Takeda
Member of the House of Representatives
In office
1946–1949
ConstituencyHiroshima
Personal details
Born21 September 1896
Zeze [ja], Japan
Died14 March 1954(1954-03-14) (aged 57)

Kiyo Takeda (Japanese: 武田キヨ, 21 September 1896 – 14 March 1954) was a Japanese educator and politician. She was one of the first group of women elected to the House of Representatives in 1946.[1]

Biography

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Takeda was born in Zeze [ja] (now part of Ōtsu) in 1896. The family later moved to Yamaguchi Prefecture when her father was transferred there for work. She attended Yamaguchi Girls' School [ja] and graduated from Tokyo Women's Higher Normal School [ja] in 1919. She subsequently worked as a teacher at Kure Girl's High School [ja] and Kure Port Junior High School [ja], and served as headmistress of several schools including Tokyo Yakumo Girls' School [ja].[2]

After World War II, Takeda joined the Liberal Party. She was a candidate for the party in Hiroshima in the 1946 general elections (the first in which women could vote), and was elected to the House of Representatives.[2] She was re-elected in the 1947 elections, shortly after which she joined the Democratic Party. She lost her seat in the 1949 elections and died of a cerebral haemorrhage in 1954.

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. ^ a b Analysis of the 1946 Japanese General Election United States Department of State, 1946, p101