21 Notable alumni of
Japan Women's University
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Japan Women's University is 596th in the world, 115th in Asia, and 46th in Japan by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 21 notable alumni from Japan Women's University sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Rumiko Takahashi
- Enrolled in Japan Women's University
- Graduated with bachelor's degree
- Occupations
- screenwritercharacter designeranimatormangaka
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Rumiko Takahashi is a Japanese manga artist. With a career of several commercially successful works, beginning with Urusei Yatsura in 1978, she is one of Japan's best-known and wealthiest manga artists. Her works are known worldwide, where they have been translated into a variety of languages, with over 230 million copies in circulation; making Takahashi one of the best-selling authors of all time. She has won the Shogakukan Manga Award twice, once in 1980 for Urusei Yatsura and again in 2001 for Inuyasha, and the Seiun Award twice, once in 1987 for Urusei Yatsura and again in 1989 for Mermaid Saga. She also received the Grand Prix de la ville d'Angoulême in 2019, becoming the second woman and second Japanese to win the prize. In 2020, the Japanese government awarded Takahashi the Medal with Purple Ribbon for her contributions to the arts.
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Raicho Hiratsuka
- Occupations
- novelistwritercriticjournalistanarchist
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Hiratsuka Raichō was a Japanese writer, journalist, political activist, anarchist, and pioneering feminist in Japan.
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Kazuyo Sejima
- Occupations
- architect
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Kazuyo Sejima is a Japanese architect and director of her own firm, Kazuyo Sejima & Associates. In 1995, she co-founded the firm SANAA (Sejima + Nishizawa & Associates). In 2010, Sejima was the second woman to receive the Pritzker Prize, which was awarded jointly with Nishizawa. They were only the second partnership to be honored with this prize.
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Sadako Sawamura
- Occupations
- actor
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Sadako Sawamura was a Japanese stage and film actress who appeared in more than 200 films between 1935 and 1976.
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Chieko Takamura
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- writerpoetYōga painterpapercut artist
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Chieko Takamura was a Japanese artist.
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He Xiangning
- Occupations
- politician
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He Xiangning was a Chinese revolutionary, feminist, politician, painter, and poet. Together with her husband Liao Zhongkai, she was one of the earliest members of Sun Yat-sen's revolutionary movement Tongmenghui. As Minister for Women's Affairs in Sun's Nationalist government in Guangzhou (Canton), she advocated equal rights for women and organized China's first rally for International Women's Day in 1924. After her husband's assassination in 1925 and Chiang Kai-shek's persecution of the Communists in 1927, she stayed away from party politics for two decades, but actively worked to organize resistance against the Japanese invasion of China.
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Yumie Hiraiwa
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- novelistscreenwriterwriter
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Yumie Hiraiwa was a Japanese Naoki Award-winning author.
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Yuriko Miyamoto
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- literary criticnovelistwritercriticessayist
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Miyamoto Yuriko was a Japanese novelist, short-story writer, social activist, and literary critic active during the Taishō and early Shōwa eras of Japan. She is best known for her autobiographical fiction and involvement in proletarian and women's liberation movements.
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Fumiko Enchi
- Occupations
- novelistplaywrightwriter
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Fumiko Ueda, known by her pen name Fumiko Enchi (円地 文子, Enchi Fumiko), was a Japanese writer and playwright known for her explorations into the ideas of sexuality, gender, human identity, and spirituality. She is considered one of the most prominent women writers of Shōwa period Japan.
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Momoko Ishii
- Enrolled in Japan Women's University
- Studied English-language literature
- Occupations
- writertranslatorliterary scholarchildren's writernovelist
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Momoko Ishii was a Japanese writer and translator of children's books. She was the first member of the Japan Art Academy from the field of children's literature.
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Satoko Shinohara
- Occupations
- architect
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Satoko Shinohara is a Japanese architect, architectural educator, and architectural researcher. She became the president of Japan Women's University in 2020. She presides over Spatial Design Studio and is a published author and editor. In a career that has addressed daily life, housing, and relationships, one of Shinohara's key design tenets is that housing is inherently a social space—one that can cultivate relationships among people, place, and the environment.
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Toshiko Tamura
- Occupations
- writernovelist
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Toshiko Tamura was an early modern feminist novelist who wrote during the late Meiji era, Taishō era, and early Shōwa era. She wrote under the pen-names Roei (露英), Child Bird (鳥の子, Tori no ko), Toshiko Suzuki (鈴木 俊子, Suzuki Toshiko), Yukari (優香里, Yukari), Jun-Sheng (俊生), and Zuo Jun-zhi (佐俊芝), as well as under her maiden name Toshiko Satō (佐藤 俊子, Satō Toshiko) and her married name Toshiko Tamura, by which she is best known. Her birth name was Toshi Satō (佐藤 とし, Satō Toshi).
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Oku Mumeo
- Occupations
- politician
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Mumeo Oku was an important Japanese feminist and politician who served three terms in Japan's Imperial Diet after having been a leader in the early modern women's suffrage movement in Japan. She played an important role in various early Japanese women's rights movements, and she was a crucial part of Japan's consumer movement. She was a renowned activist in the 1920s, co-founding the New Women's Association with Hiratsuka Raichō and Ichikawa Fusae, and eventually held a seat in the House of Councilors from 1947 to 1965 when she retired.
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Tomi Kōra
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- psychologistpolitician
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Tomi Kōra was a Japanese psychologist, peace activist, and politician. She published under the name Tomiko Kōra (高良 とみ, Kōra Tomiko).
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Hideko Inouye
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- university teacher
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Hideko Inoue was a Japanese educator and peace activist. She taught home economics at Japan Women's University and served as the first woman president of the school from 1931–1946. Active in the peace movement she led the Japanese affiliate of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom and was one of the leading feminists supporting internationalism in the interwar era. In the 1930s she changed her focus to Pan-Asian cooperation and at the end of the decade was appointed to the Ministry of Greater East Asia to work on educational reforms. In the 1940s, she was decorated by the Emperor of Japan but lost her presidency at Japan Women's University in 1946 when she was purged by the U. S. Occupation Administration. She remained involved in education until the mid-1950s.
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Kiku Amino
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- prose writernovelistwriter
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Kiku Amino was a Japanese writer and translator of English and Russian literature. She was a recipient of the Women's Literature Prize, the Yomiuri Prize, and Japan Academy of the Arts prize.
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Tsuruko Haraguchi
- Occupations
- translatorpsychologist
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Tsuruko Haraguchi was a Japanese psychologist and the first Japanese woman to receive a Doctor of Philosophy.
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Tsuruyo Kondō
- Occupations
- politician
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Tsuruyo Kondo was a Japanese politician who served as Director General of the Science and Technology Agency from 1962 to 1963, in the cabinet of Hayato Ikeda.
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Tano Jōdai
- Occupations
- university presidentpeace activist
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Tano Jōdai was a professor of English literature, peace activist, and the sixth president of the Japan Women's University.
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Shina Inoue Kan
- Occupations
- feminist
- Biography
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Shina Inoue Kan, also seen as "Shina Inouye", "Shina Kan", and "Shinako Kan", was a Japanese college professor.
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Setsu Tanino
- Occupations
- textile workereconomist
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Tanino Setsu was a textile worker who graduated from Japan Women's University's Department of Social Work in 1925, and became the first female factory supervisor in 1928. She aided in organizing women's strikes for higher wages, and wrote prolifically about her observances of female factory worker's struggles.
