Women’s History Month Lecture Tsuda Umeko: Philadelphia to Japan, Pioneering Women’s Education

For Women’s History Month at JASGP, Professor Masako Iino, former President and Professor Emeritus of Tsuda University, Tokyo and Dr. Linda H Chance, Professor of East Asian Studies at University of Pennsylvania, will discuss the influence of Tsuda Umeko (1864–1929), a Bryn Mawr College alumni, pioneer on young women’s education in Meiji period Japan. Tsuda Umeko improved the social status of women in Japan with an impact that extends into the present era.