Misu Nomura

Misu Nomura
Member of the House of Representatives
In office 1946–1947
Constituency	Niigata 2nd district
Personal details
Born	19 August 1896 Kuramata [ja], Japan
Died	15 March 1979(1979-03-15) (aged 82)

Misu Nomura (Japanese: 野村ミス, 19 August 1896 – 15 March 1979) was a Japanese politician. She was one of the first group of women elected to the House of Representatives in 1946.[1]

Biography

Nomura was born in 1896 in the village of Kuramata [ja] in Nakauonuma District of Niigata Prefecture (now part of Tōkamachi).[2] After graduating from Ueno Housekeeper High School in 1919 she worked as a primary school teacher.[3] She married Kojiro Nomura, who worked at the tax office.[2]

After World War II, Nomura contested the Niigata 2nd district in the 1946 general elections as an independent candidate, and was elected to the House of Representatives.[3] She was a founding member of the National Cooperative Party (NCP) in 1947, becoming one of its vice presidents.[4] She unsuccessfully contested the 1947 House of Councillors elections as an NCP candidate in Niigata Prefecture.[5] She died in 1979.[6]

References

1. Otsuka Kiyoe (2008) Japanese Women's Legislative and Administrative Reforms in the Postwar Era Bulletin of the Faculty of Education, Kagoshima University
2. 新しき明日の来るを信ず－はじめての女性代議士たち, p179
3. Analysis of the 1946 Japanese General Election United States Department of State, 1946, p77
4. 新潟県100年史, volume 2, 1968, p401
5. 朝日選挙大観, p583
6. 議会制度百年史 衆議院議員名鑑, p494