Nitobe Inazō

Nitobe Inazō (1862 to 1933) was a Japanese agronomist, diplomat, political scientist, politician and writer, born in Morioka. He studied at Sapporo Agricultural College and later went to the United States to study agricultural policy, spending three years at Johns Hopkins University in economics and political science, where he joined the Religious Society of Friends. After returning to Japan he was a professor at Sapporo Agricultural College, Kyoto Imperial University and Tokyo Imperial University, and he served as deputy secretary general of the League of Nations. He devoted himself to women's education, helping to found the Tsuda Eigaku Juku and serving as the first president of Tokyo Woman's Christian University and president of the Tokyo Women's College of Economics. He was also a strong advocate of Japanese colonialism and described Korean people as primitive.