Women / Persons ~ P13113
Asako Hirooka
Gender: Female
Life Dates: 18 October 1849 — 14 January 1919
Types:
- Businesswoman
- Educational founder, schoolmistress
- Speaker, Lecturer, Public Reader
- Writer, Nonfiction
Note: Japanese banker; one of the founders of Japan Women's University, convert to Christianity; started a savings bank, a coal mine, and life insurance company