The modern Japanese women's movement was produced under the influence of the western women's movement, but it was not just a simple imitation of the western women's movement, but rooted in the soil of Japan's modernization, that is, the development of women's education since the founding of Meiji and the rise of women's employment with the emergence and development of modern Japanese industry. During the Meiji period, compulsory education was implemented, and the enrollment rate of boys and girls gradually approached. 1899 after the promulgation of the order of higher girls' schools, the number of girls' schools has increased year by year. 1900 established a women's English school (now Tsuda Women's University) and Tokyo Medical School, 190 1 established a Japanese women's university school, and 1902 established a women's art school. These women's educational institutions have played a considerable role in improving women's knowledge level. Most of the representatives of "new women" were graduates of Japan Women's University, the highest educational institution for Japanese women at that time.

After entering the 20th century, the employment scope of Japanese women has expanded. In the early years of Meiji, there were some occupations such as female teachers, nurses and midwives. With the development of the times, there have been female bank employees, hairdressers, photographers, salesgirls, journalists, and female employees serving government departments and companies. Although the number of women employed at that time was still very small, and their remuneration and treatment were also very low, these women who went to society and achieved certain economic independence were the earliest practitioners of the idea of "new women". By engaging in new occupations, they strengthened their contact with society, changed their way of life and thinking to varying degrees, and produced new outlook on life and values, which was the soil for the germination of the idea of "new women" and the basis for the emergence and development of the Japanese women's movement in the early 20th century.

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