Jōdai Tano, sixth president of Japan Women's University, 1956-65. Earlier, as Head of the English Department and as Dean, she was an important contributor to reform in women's higher higher during and after the Occupation years. Her prewar overseas college education included Wells College for Women, New York State.

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