Today, on March 2, 1925 (Japan):
Japan passes the “General Election Law (f普通選挙法–futsu senkyo ho). This showed a lowered fear of Democracy, which was held since the Meiji Restoration (1868). Prior to this law, only males, 25 years of age or older paying taxes on property, were allowed to vote. However after World War, I there were movements within Japan to remove the tax-paying requirement–followed by press coverage for student and labor demonstrations.
Although in the United States, Women received the right to vote in 1920.
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(photo from http://gakusyu.shizuoka-c.ed.jp/)
Shows the # of people in 10,000s that voted; and can see the sharp rise in 1928 (three years after the passage of these bill).