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They moved to [[Tokyo]]’s [[Yotsuya]] Ward, where she encountered the writings of pioneering Swedish women's rights advocate [[Ellen Key]], who wrote a great deal on motherhood, pregnancy, childbirth, childcare, and the state protecting those roles. In addition, her husband began teaching foreign languages in his school to [[Osugi Sakae]], who then introduced Waka to [[Hiratsuka Raicho]]’s magazine, ''[[Bluestocking (magazine)|Bluestocking]]''. Yamada then embarked upon a career of fighting for women’s rights. She became one of the most prominent members of the Japanese women’s movement, including being a frequent contributor to ''Bluestocking'' (‘’Seito’’). She made known her own victimization as a prostitute, despite the social stigma associated with such an admission. She had a regular “women’s” column in the newspaper ‘’[[Asahi Shimbun]]’’. She became the Japanese translator for [[Olive Schreiner]].
She differed from many other Japanese feminists of the era in that her central interest was in protecting and elevating women's roles as wife and mother. This goal was similar to that of her ideological inspiration, [[Ellen Key]], and it also put her goals in line with the goals of imperial Japan, which advocated the importance of good wives and wise mothers, and had a very pro-[[natalism|natalist]] ideology in order to encourage children to support the war. This attitude put her at odds with most of the other feminists of the day, many of whom were not supporters of the Japanese imperial goals, and who emphasized more equality with men without being as concerned about the roles of wife and mother. Yamada advocated for a “Maternal and Child Protection Act”, which culminated in the founding of the New Women's Association ([[Shin Fujin Kyokai]]). In 1934, she founded the Women's League (soon renamed the Maternity Protection League ([[Bosei Hogo Renmei]])) and became its chair.
Her prominence was such that when she visited the United States for a lecture tour, she was invited to visit [[Eleanor Roosevelt]] at the [[White House]], which she did on December 7, 1937. In 1938, she opened the first shelter for women and children fleeing abusive homes in Japan.
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==In fiction==
In the graphic novel ''
==See also==
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[[Category:1957 deaths]]
[[Category:Japanese essayists]]
[[Category:Japanese educators]]▼
[[Category:Japanese feminists]]
[[Category:People of Meiji-period Japan]]
[[Category:Japanese women educators]]▼
[[Category:Victims of forced prostitution]]
[[Category:Converts to Christianity]]
▲[[Category:20th-century Japanese women educators]]
▲[[Category:20th-century Japanese educators]]
[[Category:20th-century Japanese women writers]]
[[Category:20th-century Japanese writers]]
[[Category:Natalists]]
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