En Sugawara (; 27 February 1900 – 16 February 1994) was a Japanese suffragist and politician. She was one of the first group of women elected to the House of Representatives in 1946.Otsuka Kiyoe (2008) Japanese Women's Legislative and Administrative Reforms in the Postwar Era Bulletin of the Faculty of Education, Kagoshima University
Biography Sugawara was born in the village of (now part of Ichinoseki) in 1900. She attended and later graduated from in 1929. She also became a member of the Iwate Poets' Association.
After World War II, Sugawara joined the Japan Progressive Party. She was a JPP candidate in Iwate in the 1946 general elections (the first in which women could vote), and was elected to the House of Representatives.Analysis of the 1946 Japanese General Election United States Department of State, 1946, p94 After the party merged into the Democratic Party, she ran unsuccessfully for the new party in in the 1947 elections. She subsequently contested the 1949 elections as an independent candidate, but failed to be elected.
She died in 1994.
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