Asian Descent Archives - Page 35 of 36

Komako Kimura

Komako Kimura was a Japanese suffragist, actress, dancer, theater manager, and magazine editor before World War II.

Jhalkaribai was a soldier who served in the Rani Lakshmibai of Jhansi’s women’s army and eventually rose to a position of a prominent advisor to the queen herself, including analysing and strategising battle tactics.

Zhang Yao’er

Zhang Yao’er (章要兒).z was an empress of the Chinese Chen Dynasty

Maurissa Tancharoen

Maurissa Tancharoen is an American television producer, writer, actress, singer, lyricist and dancer.

Nawab Sikander Begum

Her Highness Nawab Sikander Begum Sahiba, Nawab Begum of Dar ul-Iqbal-i-Bhopal, GCSI ruled as the the Nawab of Bhopal from 1860 until her death in 1868.

Shahjahan Begum

Shah Jahan Begum GCSI CI was the Begum (ruler) of the princely state of Bhopal in central India for two periods: 1844–60 (with her mother acting as regent), and during 1868–1901.

“Comfort women”

During World War II, approximately 200,000 Chinese, Korean, Singaporean, Malaysian, Taiwanese and Filipino women and girls were forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese army.

Genmei

Monarch of Japan from 707 through 715 CE. Genmei was the fourth of eight women in Japan’s history to take on the role of empress regnant.

Genshō

Monarch of Japan from 715 through 724. She was the only empress regnant in Japan’s history to have inherited her title from another empress regnant (Empress Genmei), rather than from a man. Genshō was the fifth of eight women to be Japan’s empress regnant.

Go-Sakuramachi

117th Emperor of Japan, reigning from 1762 until her abdication in 1771.