History of UT Women

Last updated: 19 March 2022

 

Kono Yasui

- Ochanomizu University Web Library Institutional Repository  ("TeaPot"), "Catalog of Kono Yasui's (1880-1971) Archives".
- The University of Tokyo, Office for Gender Equality, "History of Todai Women". (in Japanese)
- National Women’s Education Center, Repository, "The Birth of Japanese female scientists: The women who took up the challenge". (in Japanese)

- Ochanomizu University, Institute for Gender Studies, Miwae Yamazaki, "Where No Other Dared To Go - Kono Yasui 1880-1971, Japan’s First Woman Doctor of Science".
- Smithsonian Magazine, Leila McNeill, 21 December 2017, "How a Pioneering Botanist Broke Down Japan’s Gender Barriers".

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Michiyo Tsujimura 

- Ochanomizu University, Web Library Institutional Repository ("TeaPot"), "Catalog of Michiyo Tsujimura's (1888-1969) Archives". 
- Ochanomizu University, Digital Archives, "Michiyo Tsujimura". 
- The University of Tokyo, Office for Gender Equality, "History of Todai Women". (in Japanese)
- National Women’s Education Center, Repository, "The Birth of Japanese female scientists: The women who took up the challenge". (in Japanese)
- RIKEN, Showakai Culture Department, June 1948 issue. (in Japanese)

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Hideru Suzuki

- The University of Tokyo, Office for Gender Equality, "History of Todai Women".

- National Women’s Education Center, Repository, "The Birth of Japanese female scientists: The women who took up the challenge". (in Japanese)
- Bulletin of the Japan Women's University Research Institute, Issue 11, November 2008. (in Japanese)
- Tokushima Pharmaceutical Association, "Who is Nagai Nagayoshi, the founder of modern Japanese pharmacy?" (in Japanese)

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The first female students

- Waseda University, Graduate School of Education, Bulletin No. 30, Yukawa Tsugiyoshi, "Discussion on Women's University Education Reform during the Postwar Education Reform Period", March 2020. (in Japanese)
- The University of Tokyo, Office for Gender Equality, "History of Todai Women".
- M.T. "The Lives of Women Graduates of The University of Tokyo in the Seventy Years after World War II - An Analysis of the Publications of The University of Tokyo's Women's Alumni Association, Satsuki-kai", Chapter 2: The University of Tokyo, Satsuki-kai and Female Students - 70 Years, 2-2 History of Women Students at The University of Tokyo. (in Japanese)
- Teachers College, Columbia University, Department of Organization and Leadership, Wataru Hasegawa, "Japan's System of Post-Secondary Education", 1999.
- The University of Tokyo, College of Arts and Sciences, Makoto Gonokami, "Symposium for the 70th Anniversary of the Faculty of Liberal Arts, University of Tokyo 'Overview of Interdisciplinary Knowledge - Komaba Style' Address by President Gonokami". (in Japanese)
- MEXT, "120-year history of the education system: an overview" (in Japanese).  

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Hiroko Kageyama and the Shirokane dormitory

- The University of Tokyo, Office for Gender Equality, "UTokyo female students active in society". (in Japanese)

- Hiroko Kageyama "Going My Way - Aiming to improve the status of women in the workplace.", Gakuyo-Shobo (in Japanese)

- M.T. "The Lives of Women Graduates of The University of Tokyo in the Seventy Years after World War II - An Analysis of the Publications of The University of Tokyo's Women's Alumni Association, Satsuki-kai", Chapter 1: Women's Higher Education and Postwar Japanese Society. (in Japanese)

- M.T. "The Lives of Women Graduates of The University of Tokyo in the Seventy Years after World War II - An Analysis of the Publications of The University of Tokyo's Women's Alumni Association, Satsuki-kai", Chapter 2: The University of Tokyo, Satsuki-kai and Female Students - 70 Years, 2-2 History of Women Students at The University of Tokyo. (in Japanese)

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Policy towards gender equality in the 1970-2000s
- United Nations: Conferences | Women and gender equality

- Audiovisual Library of International Law, Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women

- Japan Association for Women's Education, Keyword search: Women's studies.

- The University of Tokyo, Office for Gender Equality, "History of gender equality at The University of Tokyo". (in Japanese)

- The University of Tokyo, Kimi no Todai, "What you need to know when you become a university student. Gender Studies as a Liberal Arts Education - Professor Kaku Sechiyama, Faculty of Liberal Arts". (in Japanese)

- Hitotsubashi University, Graduate School of Sociology, Center for Gender Research and Social Sciences, "Teruko Inoue". (in Japanese)

- Wako University, Repository, Bulletin of the Faculty of Human Studies, No.5, March 2012, Teruko Inoue, "Looking back on 40 Years of Women's Studies and I". (in Japanese)

- NHK Testimony of Post-war history "Decisions for the future" interview, Ryoko Akamatsu (2015)

- Todai Shimbun vol. 2095 (July 4, 2000), vol. 2219 (June 24, 2003), vol. 2245 (Feb 3, 2004)

- Todai Shimbun Online "The Role of Childcare Facilities in UTokyo Campus"(June 3, 2021) 

 

UTokyo women today

- The University of Tokyo, "Future Shape: The Power of Girls". (in Japanese)

- Todai Shimbun Online: 'President Gokami, why did you start providing rent support to female students?' (June 7, 2018) (in Japanese).

- Chizuko Ueno, "Congratulatory address at The University of Tokyo's undergraduate entrance ceremony", April 12, 2019. (in Japanese)

- The University of Tokyo, Bulletin of the College of Arts and Sciences, No. 613, 3 February 2021, Ota Kunihiro, "Activities by student groups in the age of diversity". (in Japanese)

- Todai Shimbun, vol. 2959 (March 10, 2021)

- Todai Shimbun Online, Interview with Prof. Kaori Hayashi, Vice-President (in Japanese)

- The University of Tokyo, UTokyo Focus, Diversity and the University of Tokyo 01, Kaori Hayashi, "Breaking away from the 'male university'". (in Japanese)

 

UTokyo women tomorrow
- Survey by Toward Diversity, February 2022.