Nakayama Masa

Nakayama Masa (jap. 中山 マサ; * born in Nagasaki, Nagasaki on January 19. 1891; died October 11, 1976) was a Japanese Minister of Health and Welfare. She received the appointment in 1960 and became the first woman in a Japanese cabinet. [ [http://www.iwdc.org/resources/timeline.htm International Women's Democracy Center] ] She was a member of Hayato Ikeda's government. [ [http://books.google.com/books?id=-vTLF9KIzYoC&pg=PA322&lpg=PA322&dq=%22nakayama+masa&source=web&ots=2sRuFvVkoR&sig=GqqDzdwzHmDADcY7SA26rty6daY&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=8&ct=result#PPA322,M1 The Clash: A History of U.S.-Japan Relations by Walter LaFeber, pg 322] ] She served until 1964 and there would be no other women in a Japanese cabinet until 1999. [ [http://books.google.com/books?id=GeY2yzunY98C&pg=PA136&dq=%22nakayama+masa&as_brr=3&sig=ACfU3U3jZQz-jYzCttLJcWzCLF4tD8hfaw Living Together By Miki Y. Ishikida] ] Nakayama Masa was associated to LDP. [ [http://books.google.com/books?id=FCxASdPdIqUC&pg=PA89&dq=%22nakayama+masa&as_brr=3&sig=ACfU3U1bnuJ7uta8nA61Jo-AOPYGANgMzQ Abortion Before Birth Control By Tiana Norgren, Christiana A. E. Norgren; pg 89] ]

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