But in fact, the Japanese version of "The Manifesto of a Big Man" was created during the rise of the influential ūman libu (women’s liberation) movement in the 1970s in Japan, and was therefore flooded with criticism from Japanese women's rights groups as promoting gender inequality and sexism. The second song from the original author didn't come out until 1994.
The movement in Japan synced with the first wave of feminism movement around the globe after the Second World War.
Japan has long ranked bottom in the World Economic Forum gender equality ranking, whereas Chinese women have seemed to enjoy better equality since Mao famously said women "hold up half the sky," which was a slogan used by some in the women's march last Saturday, several Chinese media outlets excitedly noticed.