Nobuko Yoshiya
Japanese novelist known for her prolific career during the Taishō and Shōwa periods
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Naoko Takeuchi
Creator of Sailor Moon
Fukuda Hideko
Prominent Japanese feminist activist devoted to socialist and feminist causes.
Fukuda Chiyo-ni
Prominent Japanese poet during the Edo period and a Buddhist nun.
Tomoko Ohta
Renowned scientist and Professor Emeritus at the National Institute of Genetics. She specializes in population genetics and molecular evolution and is famous for her work on the nearly neutral theory of evolution.
Yamada Waka
Prominent Japanese feminist who advocated social reform during Japan’s late Meiji, Taishō, and Shōwa eras.
Junko Tabei
Renowned Japanese mountaineer, author, and teacher.
Uemura Shōen
Master of Meiji, Taishō, and early Shōwa period Japanese painting. Revealing her brilliance through the alias Uemura Tsune, Shōen’s journey beautifully entwines innovation and tradition.
Kei Okami
The first Japanese woman to earn a Western medicine degree, from the Women’s Medical College of Pennsylvania in the USA.
Nakano Takeko
One of the only known onna-bugeisha (female samurais) in Japan’s history