Miyagi Tamayo

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In this Japanese name, the surname is Miyagi.

Miyagi Tamayo (宮城タマヨ, Miyagi Tamayo, 1 February 1892 – 19 November 1960),

House of Councillors
.

Biography

Miyagi Tamayo was born on 1 February 1892[1] in Yamaguchi town in Yoshiki District, Yamaguchi, the second daughter of Ueda Kyūnojō (植田久之丞).[1][2] She graduated from the Nara Girl's Higher Normal School Natural History Department in March 1914,[3][4] and she later became an assistant teacher at her alma mater.[5]

From 1920 until 1923 she studied child protection issues at the Ohara Institute for Social Research.

probation officer at the Tokyo juvenile court.[1][2][3][4] She was married to Miyagi Chōgorō [ja], a prosecutor in the Supreme Court of Judicature of Japan, from 1927 until his death in 1942.[1][2][3]

She was elected to the

Ryokufūkai.[6] She was re-elected in the 1953 Japanese House of Councillors election,[6] and she devoted her efforts to the enactment of the Prostitution Prevention Law.[1][2][3][4] She was a member of the committees for Central Youth Affairs, Prostitution Countermeasures, and Rehabilitation and Protection, and she was also the Chairman of the House of Councillors Library.[6] She was the director of the Judicial Protection Association and of the Japan Women's Social Education Association.[6] She was a member of the Kyoritsu Women's University board of trustees.[6]

In 1957, she heard Westminster Quarters while in England, and she came up with the idea of giving "mother bells" as presents; by 1959, she had installed them in sixty-four locations across Japan, including juvenile institutions and women's guidance homes.[1][3]

Miyagi Tamayo died on 19 November 1960.[1][6]

Bibliography

  • Miyagi, Tamayo (1944). 台所の心 (in Japanese). 主婦之友社.
  • Miyagi, Tamayo (1952). 私の歩み : 続 台所の心 (in Japanese). 主婦の友社.
  • Miyagi, Tamayo (1957). 問題の子らと四十年 (in Japanese). 大日本雄弁会講談社.

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i 日本女性人名辞典〔普及版〕, pp. 1017-1018
  2. ^ a b c d e f g 山口県百科事典, p. 746
  3. ^ a b c d e f g 現代日本朝日人物事典, p. 1568
  4. ^ a b c d e 近現代日本女性人名事典, p. 335
  5. ^ 奈良女子高等師範学校一覧 大正四年度・大正五年度 (in Japanese). 奈良女子高等師範学校. 1916. p. 156.
  6. ^
    House of Councilors
    (1990). 議会制度百年史 - 貴族院・参議院議員名鑑 (in Japanese). Ministry of Finance Printing Bureau. p. 419.
  • 山口県教育会編 (1982). 山口県百科事典 (in Japanese). 大和書房.
  • 現代日本朝日人物事典 (in Japanese).
    Asahi Shimbun Company
    . 1990.
  • 日本女性人名辞典〔普及版〕 (in Japanese). Nihon Tosho Center. 1998.
  • 近現代日本女性人名事典編集委員会編 (2001). 近現代日本女性人名事典 (in Japanese). Domes Shuppan.
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