Nakayama Masa
Nakayama Masa, age 67: Professional/Political woman who served as Japan’s first female Cabinet Minister. Appointed by Prime Minister Ikeda to the Ministry of Welfare. A graduate of Wesleyan College in Ohio, she had served as Vice Minister in the Ministry of Welfare in 1953-54.
From: New Japan. Tokyo: Mainichi Press, 1961; 81.
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