Masako Nakata (?? ??, Nakata Masako, 1 December 1910 – 15 October 2002) was one of the first three women admitted to the bar in Japan; the three (also including Ai Kume and Yoshiko Mibuchi) were all admitted in 1940.Nakata later became the director of the Japan Federation of Bar Associations.She died in 2002 at the age of 91.