Taki Fujita

Taki Fujita (藤田たき) (23 December 1898 – 4 January 1993) was a Japanese educator and activist for women's rights.

Her parents were Christian and she was baptized as an infant; as an adult she was drawn to the Quaker tradition.

[5] Fujita represented the YWCA at the Pan-Pacific Women's Conference in Honolulu in 1928.

She ran for a seat in the Japanese legislature in 1950 and in 1956, was president of the League of Women Voters of Japan,[8] and represented Japan at the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women[9] and at General Assembly.

In 1975 she headed the Japanese delegation to the World Conference of the International Women’s Year, held in Mexico City.

A young Japanese woman, standing outdoors in front of steps, wearing a light-colored dress and a cardigan
Taki Fujita, from the 1925 yearbook of Bryn Mawr College