Tamako Nakanishi

From left to right: Cathy Chang, interpreter for the Taiwanese participants; Senator Jenny Ma of Taiwan and CAPWIP Board Member; Hon. Cristina Portillo, Member of Congress, Mexico; Senator Tamako Nakanishi of Japan- also a CAPWIP Board Member; Mindula Sinha, Vice-President of the Bhartiya Janata Party, India; President Estrada; Hon. Sarmite Bulte, Member of Parliament, Canada; Venkata Ratnam Tripurana, Chairperson of the Andhra Pradesh State Social Welfare Board, India; Hon. Socorro May Lopez, Member of Congress, Mexico; Teboho Maitse of the Women's Empowerment Unit, South Africa; and Sylvia Ordoñez, CAPWIP Board Member.

Seated with him at the presidential table are (from left to right) CAPWIP Board Member Irene Natividad, Patricia Licuanan - Chairperson of the UN Commission on the Status of Women, CAPWIP Board Members Irene Santiago, Senator Tamako Nakanishi and Senator Jung Sook Kim, and Rina David, columnist from the Philippine Daily Inquirer.

Tamako Nakanishi - Senator, Japan

Tamako Nakanishi Ms. Nakanishi is the president of Women’s Solidarity Foundation, a non-profit organization seeking gender equality by promoting women's participation in policy formation in Japan and elsewhere. She is also a member of the Board of Trustees of the Center for Asia Pacific Women in Politics or CAPWIP, a Philippine-based non-profit organization promoting equal participation of women in politics and decision-making. A former member of the Japanese Diet as a senator, she fought for the nation's equal employment opportunity law to open up jobs to women.

From left to right: Cathy Chang, interpreter for the Taiwanese participants; Senator Jenny Ma of Taiwan and CAPWIP Board Member; Hon. Cristina Portillo, Member of Congress, Mexico; Senator Tamako Nakanishi of Japan- also a CAPWIP Board Member; Mindula Sinha, Vice-President of the Bhartiya Janata Party, India; President Estrada; Hon. Sarmite Bulte, Member of Parliament, Canada; Venkata Ratnam Tripurana, Chairperson of the Andhra Pradesh State Social Welfare Board, India; Hon. Socorro May Lopez, Member of Congress, Mexico; Teboho Maitse of the Women's Empowerment Unit, South Africa; and Sylvia Ordoñez, CAPWIP Board Member.

It also contains the speech by Former Senator Tamako Nakanishi in the opening program of the First Global Congress on September 6, 1995 entitled" Towards a Global Network of Women in Politics."