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Sayaka Osakabe

1978 - Today

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Sayaka Osakabe (小酒部 さやか, Osakabe Sayaka; born May 29, 1977) is a Japanese women's rights activist and politician. She is known for popularizing the term: "matahara" (referring to the act of harassing pregnant employees and forcing them to quit their position at work) and raising awareness in Japan that acts of matahara are illegal. She was a 2015 winner of the US State Department's International Women of Courage Award. In April of 2023, Osakabe was elected to the City Assembly of Yokohama, representing the Aoba Ward. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2024). Sayaka Osakabe is the 866th most popular social activist (down from 814th in 2024), the 4,373rd most popular biography from Japan (down from 3,524th in 2019) and the 15th most popular Japanese Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Sayaka Osakabe ranks 866 out of 840. Before her are Emna Mizouni, Parveena Ahanger, Sylvia Tamale, Pepe Julian Onziema, Farhiyo Farah Ibrahim, and Sunitha Krishnan. After her are María Fernanda Castro Maya, Nick Fuentes, Amina Tyler, Elizabeth Smart, Ayakha Melithafa, and Xu Mengtao.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1978, Sayaka Osakabe ranks 1,306. Before her are Tom Stallard, Danny Higginbotham, Kayvan Novak, Koichi Sekimoto, Noah Bean, and Haruhiko Sato. After her are Assunta Legnante, Naohito Hirai, Eric Ladin, Aleksey Rastvortsev, Yoko Isoda, and Miri Ben-Ari.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Sayaka Osakabe ranks 4,386 out of 6,245. Before her are Takahiro Sekine (1995), Koichi Sekimoto (1978), Teruaki Kobayashi (1979), Atsushi Mio (1983), Manabu Wakabayashi (1979), and Haruhiko Sato (1978). After her are Hiroki Kato (1986), Kunie Kitamoto (1981), Naohito Hirai (1978), Kenji Nakada (1973), Takeshi Yamaguchi (1979), and Kei Inoo (1990).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Japan

Among social activists born in Japan, Sayaka Osakabe ranks 15. Before her are Gotō Shōjirō (1838), Ōsugi Sakae (1885), Megumi Yokota (1964), Akira Amano (1973), Jared Taylor (1951), and Oliver Wood (null).

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