Abstract
This paper examines representation of women in contemporary Japan drawing on the feminist post-modernists' understanding of representation as processes of construction of subjects. Since the 1990s, female political actors have received attention in various ways in the context of rising concerns about declining birthrates and an aging population, and the promotion of and the backlash against gender equality policies. Based on the analyses of articles in the Gekkan Jiyu Minshu, the monthly magazine published by the Liberal Democratic Party, and official gazettes of female candidates for the Lower House elections from the mid-1990s to 2006, this paper shows (1) the ways in which female politicians have emphasized the importance of women's points of view in transforming the political system, and (2) the shift of ‘the represented,’ i.e., referenced subjects in election gazettes of female candidates, from ‘women’ to ‘children’ in a decade since the late 1990s.
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