"Universal" Suffrage, but for males only

Today, and February 20th annually, is Universal Election Day 普通選挙の日. But I take exception to this description "universal", because it actually only incorporates men, not women. February 20th in 1928, the early Showa period (hence the photo), the first general election conducted under UNIVERSAL MALE SUFFRAGE took place in Japan. 

However, the reason it is such an historic event is because prior to that election, only men who paid a certain amount of tax were allowed vote. Meaning that only a small portion of the population could participate. In 1925, the Kato Takaaki cabinet enacted the Universal Suffrage Law, which granted voting to all adult men, regardless of tax payments or property.

True, full Universal Suffrage did not come until 1946. When women voted for the first time in the postwar general election, which resulted in 39 women being elected to a diet, a major milestone in Japan's democratic development.