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Tsune Watanabe was a Japanese educator. She was president of the Congregational Woman's Missionary Society of Japan and head of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union in
Watanabe graduated from Kobe Girls' School in 1882, in the school's first graduating class; her teachers were American women from
''Life and Light for Woman'' (April 1918): 148. the school's first non-Western graduate.
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In 1912 she convened the fifth annual meeting of the Woman's Missionary Society at Osaka. In 1917 and 1918 she traveled to New York and Washington, D.C., for the convention of the WCTU. Although she was not ordained as a minister, she spent the winter of 1918-1919 in Santa Barbara, California, leading the small Japanese Congregational church in that city. In 1923 she went to Shanghai to start a chapter of the Japanese WCTU.
Kobe
Kobe ( , ; officially , ) is the capital city of Hyōgo Prefecture Japan. With a population around 1.5 million, Kobe is Japan's seventh-largest city and the third-largest port city after Tokyo and Yokohama. It is located in Kansai region, whic ...
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Early life
Watanabe graduated from Kobe Girls' School in 1882, in the school's first graduating class; her teachers were American women from Carleton College
Carleton College ( ) is a private liberal arts college in Northfield, Minnesota. Founded in 1866, it had 2,105 undergraduate students and 269 faculty members in fall 2016. The 200-acre main campus is between Northfield and the 800-acre Cowling ...
. She graduated from Carleton College in 1891,"Miss Watanabe in America"''Life and Light for Woman'' (April 1918): 148. the school's first non-Western graduate.
Career
Watanabe was president of the Congregational Woman's Missionary Society of Japan and head of the Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) inKobe
Kobe ( , ; officially , ) is the capital city of Hyōgo Prefecture Japan. With a population around 1.5 million, Kobe is Japan's seventh-largest city and the third-largest port city after Tokyo and Yokohama. It is located in Kansai region, whic ...
. She taught at Kobe College
Kobe ( , ; officially , ) is the capital city of Hyōgo Prefecture Japan. With a population around 1.5 million, Kobe is Japan's seventh-largest city and the third-largest port city after Tokyo and Yokohama. It is located in Kansai region, which ...
for ten years. In 1911 she visited Korea with American missionary Ruth Frances Davis, and organized a chapter of the Japanese WCTU in Seoul. The two women went to Taiwan in 1912 to organize Japanese WCTU chapters in Taipei and Tainan.Ogawa, Manako. "American Women's Destiny, Asian Women's Dignity: Trans-Pacific Activism of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, 1866-1945" (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Hawai'i at Manoa 2004): 237-247, 287-288. Online at the University of Hawai'i Library'Scholarspace
In 1912 she convened the fifth annual meeting of the Woman's Missionary Society at Osaka. In 1917 and 1918 she traveled to New York and Washington, D.C., for the convention of the WCTU. Although she was not ordained as a minister, she spent the winter of 1918-1919 in Santa Barbara, California, leading the small Japanese Congregational church in that city. In 1923 she went to Shanghai to start a chapter of the Japanese WCTU.
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