Ratio of Women in Local Assemblies in Japan
The ratio of women in local assemblies is low in Japan. In Tokyo 23 wards, 26.2% of assembly members are women, but in the countryside, women members are very few.
Figure : The percentages of women in local assemblies in Japan.
Red prefecture (Tokyo) has a relatively higher percentage of women, blue prefectures have low percentages.
Prefecture | Percentage of women |
Tokyo | 24.7 |
Kanagawa | 19.8 |
Saitama | 18.9 |
Osaka | 18.4 |
Kyoto | 17.2 |
Shiga | 15.6 |
Chiba | 14.7 |
Hyogo | 13.9 |
Nagano | 13.3 |
Mie | 12.9 |
Tottori | 12.8 |
Aichi | 12.6 |
Tochigi | 11.8 |
Fukuoka | 11.4 |
Yamaguchi | 11.2 |
Ibaraki | 11.0 |
Nara | 10.8 |
Kochi | 10.4 |
Gifu | 10.3 |
Hokkaido | 10.2 |
Shizuoka | 10.1 |
Hiroshima | 9.8 |
Wakayama | 9.7 |
Miyagi | 9.6 |
Okayama | 9.2 |
Gunma | 9.0 |
Kagawa | 8.8 |
Miyazaki | 8.8 |
Okinawa | 8.8 |
Niigata | 8.7 |
Yamagata | 8.6 |
Iwate | 8.3 |
Tokushima | 8.2 |
Yamanashi | 8.1 |
Akita | 7.9 |
Toyama | 7.9 |
Fukui | 7.8 |
Shimane | 7.5 |
Kumamoto | 7.2 |
Fukushima | 7.1 |
Ehime | 7.1 |
Kagoshima | 7.1 |
Saga | 6.7 |
Oita | 6.7 |
Ishikawa | 6.5 |
Nagasaki | 6.1 |
Aomori | 6.0 |
Source is the article of Asahi Shimbun issued on 2015 Feb. 23.
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