14 Notable alumni of
Tokyo Woman's Christian University
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Tokyo Woman's Christian University is 633rd in the world, 126th in Asia, and 50th in Japan by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 14 notable alumni from Tokyo Woman's Christian 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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Marie Kondo
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- influencertelevision presenterwriternon-fiction writerconsultant
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Marie Kondo, also known as Konmari (こんまり), is a Japanese organizing consultant, author, and TV presenter.
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Jakucho Setouchi
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- bhikkhunīwriternovelistabbot
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Jakucho Setouchi, formerly known as Harumi Setouchi, was a Japanese Buddhist nun, writer, and activist. Setouchi wrote a best-selling translation of The Tale of Genji and over 400 fictional biographical and historical novels. In 1997, she was honoured as a Person of Cultural Merit, and in 2006, she was awarded the Order of Culture of Japan.
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Keiko Takeshita
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- actorseiyū
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Keiko Takeshita is a Japanese actress. She starred in the Japanese version of From Up on Poppy Hill as Hana Matsuzaki.
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Hanae Mori
- Enrolled in Tokyo Woman's Christian University
- In 1947 studied Japanese literature
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- businesspersonfashion designer
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Hanae Mori was a Japanese fashion designer. She was one of only two Japanese women to have presented her collections on the runways of Paris and New York, and the first Asian woman to be admitted as an official haute couture design house by the Fédération française de la couture in France. Her fashion house, opened in Japan in 1951, grew to become a $500 million international business by the 1990s.
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Yuko Kishida
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- housewife
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Yuko Kishida is the wife of the former Prime Minister of Japan, Fumio Kishida.
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Sawako Ariyoshi
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- impresariowriterplaywrightnovelist
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Sawako Ariyoshi was a Japanese writer, known for such works as The Doctor's Wife and The River Ki. She was known for her advocacy of social issues, such as the elderly in Japanese society, and environmental issues. Several of her novels describe the relationships between mothers and their daughters. She also had a fascination with traditional Japanese arts, such as kabuki and bunraku. She also described racial discrimination in the United States, something she experienced firsthand during her time at Sarah Lawrence, and the depopulation of remote Japanese islands during the 1970s economic boom.
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Maria Yamamoto
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- screenwriterseiyūsingeractor
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Maria Yamamoto is a Japanese voice actress and singer formerly with I'm Enterprise and now affiliated with 81 Produce.
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Bai Guang
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- film directorsingeractor
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Shi Yongfen, known professionally as Bai Guang (Chinese: 白光; pinyin: Bái Guāng; lit. 'White Light'; also credited as Pai Kwong, Bai Kwong and Bai Kwang), was a Chinese actress and singer. By the 1940s, she became one of the Seven Great Singing Stars.
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Tenkoko Sonoda
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- politicianwaka poet
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Tenkōkō Sonoda was a Japanese politician who was a member of the Japanese Diet from 1946–1952. In 1950, she became the first woman in Japanese political history to have a baby while in office.
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Akiko Dōmoto
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- journalistpolitician
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Akiko Dōmoto was the governor of Chiba Prefecture in Japan from 2001 to 2009. A graduate of Tokyo Woman's Christian University and Seisen Junior and Senior High School, she was the first female governor of Chiba and the third in Japanese history. She was first elected in 2001. In September 2001 she canceled a controversial plan to reclaim the Sanbanze wetlands as landfill. Historian Jeff Kingston called this act "a major victory for activists."
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Hiroko Minagawa
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- novelist
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Hiroko Minagawa is a Korean-born Japanese writer of mystery, fantasy, horror and historical fiction.
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Tatsuko Hoshino
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- writerhaiku poet
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Tatsuko Hoshino was a Japanese haiku poet active in Shōwa period Japan.
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Shihoko Ishii
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- mathematicianuniversity teacher
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Shihoko Ishii is a Japanese mathematician and professor at the University of Tokyo. Her research area is algebraic geometry.
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Shiho Sakanishi
- Enrolled in Tokyo Woman's Christian University
- Studied in 1918-1921
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- criticwritertranslatorschool teacherlibrarian
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Shiho Sakanishi was a Japanese critic, essayist, academic, translator, author, and librarian. She was the first Japanese citizen to serve as a librarian at the Library of Congress and was a notable critic of the role of women in Japanese society.
