Word: doshisha
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...When she speaks, people hear a great deep rumble with just a hint of grit. In a land where unmarried women are considered somehow incomplete, Doi remains steadfastly single. But the leader of the Japan Socialist Party has used her difference to advantage. Says Shinobu Tabata, her mentor at Doshisha law school in Kyoto: "She was big, loud and pushy to start with. I knew from the first day she came into my office that she would make a fine politician...
...years ago that she abruptly decided to stand up to her country's male-dominated political culture. In 1969 Doi, then a lecturer at Doshisha, approached the deputy mayor of her hometown of Kobe to apologize for an inaccurate newspaper report that she had accepted a J.S.P. draft for the lower house of parliament. The official was condescending and blunt: "Wouldn't it be really stupid to run in an election you know you have no chance of winning?" Affronted, Doi snapped back, "I've decided right here, at this very moment, that I will run for this election...
...politically active Protestant minority. "Originally, I wanted to be a doctor too," says Doi. "My parents were in favor of the idea that girls should study and try to be independent like men." Eventually, after studying English at a women's college, Doi chose instead to take law at Doshisha University, where she saw a movie about the young Abraham Lincoln. "I will have to be like Lincoln," she recalls thinking to herself. "A supporter of the weak...