page_title: Komako Kimura
section_title: Early Career
hierarchical_section_title: Komako Kimura / Career / Early Career
caption_attribution_description: English: Kimura Komako printed in "The Women Citizen" alongside an article in 1917
context_page_description: Komako Kimura, also seen as Komaku Kimura or Komago Kimura in American newspapers, was a Japanese suffragist, actress, dancer, theater manager, and magazine editor before World War II. Her work, both literary and theatrical, shaped the women's rights and women's suffrage movement in Japan.
context_section_description: Komako Kimura and Kimura Hideo had a child out of wedlock 1908. Komako was ostracized because of this, making it difficult for her to hold down a job. Although she was not a socialist herself, she wanted more openness of thought and art in Japan, so she had been writing for the socialist journal Kumamoto hyóron. However, they did not deign to print her name on articles after January of 1908, when her unmarried motherhood became known. Similarly, she was accepted into the Imperial Actresses Training School, but was kicked out once it was made known that she was unmarried and had a child.
caption: Komako Kimura in Japanese clothing
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