Occupied Japan 1945 - 1952: Gender, Class, Race
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Occupied Japan 1945 - 1952: Gender, Class, Race

Yasui Kono, Japan's First Woman Doctor of Science

Yasui Kono, a scholar of plant cytology and genetics, became Japan's first woman Doctor of Science upon receiving her degree from Imperial Tokyo University, 1927, for research on Japanese coal.
From: Blazing a Path: Japanese Women's Contributions to Modern Science. Tokyo: 2001; 7.

 

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