Hideko Inouye, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Hideko Inouye

Japanese educator

Date of Birth: 06-Jan-1875

Place of Birth: Kasuga, Hyōgo, Japan

Date of Death: 19-Jul-1963

Profession: university teacher

Nationality: Japan

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Hideko Inoue (also Hideko Inouye, Japanese: ??? 6 January 1875 – 19 July 1963) was a Japanese educator and peace activist.
She taught home economics at Japan Women's University and served as the first woman president of the school from 1931–1946.
Active in the peace movement she led the Japanese affiliate of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom and was one of the leading feminists supporting internationalism in the interwar era.
In the 1930s she changed her focus to Pan-Asian cooperation and at the end of the decade was appointed to the Ministry of Greater East Asia to work on educational reforms.
In the 1940s, she was decorated by the Emperor of Japan but lost her presidency at Japan Women's University in 1946 when she was purged by the U.
S.
Occupation Administration.
She remained involved in education until the mid-1950s.