Masa Nakayama

Nakayama Masa (Japanese中山 マサ; born January 19, 1891 in Nagasaki, † 11 October 1976) was a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party ( LDP) and the first woman who belonged to a Japanese Cabinet as Minister.

Nakayama studied at Ohio Wesleyan University and worked on their return to Japan as an English teacher. She married the Rikken - Minseitō politician Nakayama Fukuzō (中山 福 蔵). After the war, her husband was a Member of the Sangiin, and Nakyama even successfully ran in the election of 1947 in the second constituency for the Shūgiin Osaka, where she was subsequently re-elected eight times. Before the Conservative merger Nakayama first belonged to the Democratic Party, then to the Democratic- Liberal Party; after which they belonged within the LDP to Ōno faction.

On July 19, 1960 Nakayama was appointed by Prime Minister Ikeda Hayato as Minister for Health and Social Affairs in his cabinet.

Their eldest son, taro and her fourth son Masaaki were also Shūgiin MPs of the LDP.

• Minister of Social Affairs (Japan)
• Member of Shūgiin
• LDP member (Japan)
• Japanese
• Born 1891
• Died in 1976
• Woman