23 Notable alumni of
Japan Women's University
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Japan Women's University is 556th in the world, 108th in Asia, and 44th in Japan by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 23 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
- character designerscreenwritermangakaanimator
- Biography
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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 popular worldwide, where they have been translated into a variety of languages, with over 200 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
- journalistnovelistwritercritic
- Biography
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Hiratsuka Raichō was a Japanese writer, journalist, political activist, anarchist, and pioneering feminist in Japan.
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Sugako Hashida
- Years
- 1925-2021 (aged 96)
- Occupations
- playwrighttarentowriterscreenwriter
- Biography
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Sugako Hashida was a Japanese scriptwriter. She is known particularly for writing the NHK Asadora Oshin, and was considered Japan's most successful TV drama scriptwriter. She established Hashida Cultural Foundation. Her real name was Sugako Iwasaki (岩﨑 壽賀子, Iwasaki Sugako).
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Kazuyo Sejima
- Occupations
- architect
- Biography
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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.
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Sadako Sawamura
- Occupations
- actor
- Biography
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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
- Occupations
- painterwriterpoet
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Chieko Takamura was a Japanese artist.
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Yumie Hiraiwa
- Occupations
- novelistwriterscreenwriter
- Biography
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Yumie Hiraiwa was a Japanese Naoki Award-winning author.
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He Xiangning
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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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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Fumiko Enchi
- Occupations
- novelistwriterplaywright
- Biography
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Fumiko Enchi was the pen-name of Fumiko Ueda, one of the most prominent Japanese women writers in the Shōwa period of Japan. As a writer, Enchi is best known for her explorations into the ideas of sexuality, gender, human identity, and spirituality.
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Yuriko Miyamoto
- Occupations
- criticwriternovelistliterary criticessayist
- Biography
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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 periods of Japan. She is best known for her autobiographical fiction and involvement in proletarian and women's liberation movements.
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Momoko Ishii
- Enrolled in Japan Women's University
- Studied English literature
- Occupations
- children's writerliterary scholartranslatorwriterman of letters
- Biography
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Momoko Ishii was a distinguished Japanese writer and translator of children's books. She was the first member of the Japanese Art Academy from the field of children's literature.
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Satoko Shinohara
- Occupations
- architect
- Biography
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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
- novelistwriter
- Biography
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Toshiko Tamura was the pen-name of an early modern feminist novelist in Shōwa period Japan. Her birth name was Toshi Satō (佐藤 とし, Satō Toshi).
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Miyawaki Aiko
- Occupations
- sculptorpainter
- Biography
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Aiko Miyawaki was a Japanese sculptor and painter. She was best known for her sculpture series titled Utsurohi, installed at public spaces worldwide.
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Oku Mumeo
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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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
- Occupations
- politicianpsychologist
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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
- Occupations
- university teacher
- Biography
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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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Tsuruko Haraguchi
- Occupations
- psychologisttranslator
- Biography
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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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Kiku Amino
- Occupations
- novelist
- Biography
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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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Tsuruyo Kondō
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Tsuruyo Kondo was a Japanese politician.
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Tano Jōdai
- Occupations
- peace activistuniversity president
- Biography
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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
- Years
- 1899-1982 (aged 83)
- 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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Tanino Setsu
- Occupations
- economisttextile worker
- Biography
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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.
