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New Japan Women’s Association Illustrations: What’s Documented

The New Japan Women’s Association is linked to a catalogued 1988 clip-art book, but the available records do not establish an official illustration archive.

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“New Japan Women’s Association illustrations” does not point to a clearly identified official image collection. The New Japan Women’s Association (新日本婦人の会; NJWA) is connected to a catalogued clip-art book coauthored by its Kyoto Prefectural Headquarters, but that record does not establish a broader association-wide illustration archive or collection.

What does “New Japan Women’s Association” refer to?

The English name refers to 新日本婦人の会, abbreviated NJWA. The National Institute of Informatics records the Japanese name and its English alias in its catalog entry.

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In an official statement dated October 10, 2025, the association says it was founded in 1962 and works nationwide on nuclear disarmament, gender equality, women’s and children’s rights, and solidarity with women around the world for peace. The statement describes its resolve as acting “in defense of life and the Earth, and to build a peaceful, just, and sustainable society.” Read this as the association’s own description of its aims.

Which illustration-related publication is documented?

てづくりぴったりカット集

CiNii catalogs てづくりぴったりカット集, a clip-art collection coauthored by Ranoko Takenaka and the New Japan Women’s Association Kyoto Prefectural Headquarters. Kamogawa Shuppan published it in May 1988. The catalog record establishes that this publication exists and identifies its credited contributors; it does not establish current retail availability or whether it is part of a larger official illustration program.

新日本婦人の会の50年 : 1962〜2012

CiNii also catalogs 新日本婦人の会の50年 : 1962〜2012, an association history published in October 2012. It is related context about the organization, not evidence of an illustration collection.

Was Chihiro Iwasaki the association’s illustrator?

Chihiro Iwasaki, known as a children’s-book author and illustrator, is described by a biographical reference as a cofounder of NJWA. That connection does not demonstrate that she illustrated the association’s publications generally or created an official association-wide collection. Attribution for a particular image or book should come from that item’s own credit line or a reliable catalog record.

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Does the association have an illustration archive?

The available catalog records support a specific coauthored clip-art book, not a comprehensive illustration archive, a complete list of illustrated publications, or a verified set of official images. A Wikimedia Commons result for the association’s headquarters is a photograph dated December 3, 2017, credited to Abasaa; it is not an illustration collection.

If you are trying to identify a particular image, check the original publication, its title and date, and the illustrator or copyright credit. For any edition of a visual publication, useful details to confirm include the language, credited artist, publisher, intended use, and image rights.

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What the association says about representation

In its October 2025 statement, NJWA says the share of women in Japan’s Lower House rose from 25.5% to 29.4%. Those figures are the association’s own statement and should be attributed to it rather than treated here as independently verified election data. They concern representation, not the history or authorship of its illustrations.

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