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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