Ochanomizu University is a women national university in the Ōtsuka neighborhood of Bunkyō-ku, Tokyo, Japan. Ochanomizu is the name of the Tokyo neighborhood where the university was founded. It traces its origins to 1875, when the Tokyo Women Normal School was founded, and it later passed through several names including Women Higher Normal School. A new campus was established at its present location on 31 August 1923 after the Great Kantō earthquake. It was established as Ochanomizu University in 1949 and became a National University Corporation in 2004.
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Gifu Girls' Higher School and Kanda Girls' School, Women's Higher Normal School, Tokyo Imperial University, Ochanomizu University
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She was promoted to the role of junior researcher at RIKEN in 1942 and then researcher in 1947 before becoming a professor at Ochanomizu University when it was established in 1949.
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She was appointed professor at Ochanomizu University in 1949, and at the same time began researching the pigmentation of onion skin.
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