This paper mainly focuses on dietwomen candidates in Japan. The percentage of women in state legislatures are 2.3% in the House of Representatives and 11% in the House of Councilors. Although they are still far from majority status, it's not mean that women are not as capable as men of handling political affairs. It has made a small number of dietwomen resulted that 1)women candidates are very few, 2)politician is regard as male's profession. Candidates are often recruited from other profession, such as lawyer, bureaucrat, and so on. Therefore it seems that the number of dietwomen mirror the female societal gains over the past decade in Japan. As a matter of course, signs of change also appear. Findings show there have been significant increase in the number of women candidates and dietwomen in opposition party, which we called "Madonna boom". This increase based on 1)adoption of proportional representation system, 2)advance of Japan Socialist Party owing to the birth of female party leader, 3)strategical candidates recruitment by Japan Communist Party. But, there have not been any changes in political party's perception that dietwomen are concerned only about "women's issues" such as equal rights and that they are often anti-establishment; this is especially obvious in the Liberal Democratic Party which has no dietwomen in the House of Representatives. This idea is apt to allow casting dietwomen as figurehead of the political party and compel them to act sterotyped female roll. And they tend to be admitted as a dietwomen who married and bred. Under any circumstances, it is expected political parties to try to find better way of recruiting women candidates and raise dietwomen to higher position.
