78:, in 1919 the socialist women's organization succeeded in partly revising the Peace Police Act. In 1945, one of the members of New Women's Association, Fusae Ichikawa, established a new organization for women's suffrage movement, called the New Japan Women's League. The New Japan Women's League temporary declined because Ichikawa was purged by order of the General Headquarters of the Allied Forces in April 1947, but she was released from the purge and came back to the New Japan Women's League in October 1950. She renamed to the Women's Suffrage League of Japan in November 1950 and promoted women's movements.
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