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Hiroko Oka
Born: July 20th, 1917 in Saga city, Saga prefecture
Died: April 29th, 1998

Education
Completed the graduate school of Tokyo Bunrika University (1949; Tokyo Literature and Science University)
B.A (1942) Department of Education, Tokyo Bunrika University, Psychology
Graduated department of Japanese literature, Tokyo Women’s higher normal school

Landmarks
1949 Instructor at Toyko toritsu koto hobo gakuin (Tokyo Metropolitan higher kindergarten teacher Lyceum)
1950 Associate Professor at Wayo Women’s University
1951 Associate Professor at Department of Literature, Seishin Women’s University
1955 Professor at Department of Literature, Seishin Women’s University
1986 Retired from Seishin Women’s University

Contributions
Hiroko Oka was a star professor at Seishin Women’s University. She investigated infant development and child education. Her interests were the development of expression, the development of babyhood state, mother-child interaction, child development, and the development and deformation of relationships. She also contributed to establishing the Department of Psychology at Seishin Women’s University.

Honors
1986 Honorary Professor at Seishin Women’s University
1986 President of Japan Family Life Association
1990 Director of University seminar house foundation
1990 Honorary member at Japan Educational Psychology Association

Key words
Child development, Developmental psychology, Depiction development

Web links
“Shoji no hattatsu ni kansuru kenkyu syoji no taijinkankei no yugami ni kansuru kenkyu (Research about mind development and deformation of child inter-personal relationship)”
The research for development and deformation of inter-personal relationship

References
Hiroshi Oizumi (2003). Nihonshinrigakusha-jiten. Tokyo: Kabushiki Kaisha Kress Shuppan.



Yataro Okabe
Born: June 20th, 1894 in Ueda city, Nagano prefecture
Died: March 14th, 1967

Education
B.A (1919) Department of Philosophy, College of Letters, Tokyo Imperial University (Major psychology)
- His academic dissertation was “Melody ni tsuite (About Melody)”

Landmarks
1919 Assistant at Educational laboratory, Tokyo Imperial University
1925-1938 Part time employee at Tokyo fu shonen shokugyo soudanjyo (Tokyo prefectural bureau for boy’s employments)
1930 Professor at Rikkyo University
1935 Associate professor at Tokyo Imperial University
1938-1946 Director at Aiiku Institute
1948 Professor at Department of Letters, Tokyo Imperial University
1950 Chief professor at department of Educational psychology, College of Education, Tokyo Imperial University
1955 Retired Tokyo Imperial University
1955 Professor at International Christian University
1965 Retired International Christian University
1965 Professor at Sophia University

Contributions
Yataro Okabe contributed the development of educational psychology and educational measurement. His attitude of researches is to concern in the school education and career counseling. He suggested the direct improvement of education, typology, structure of personality, and career choice. He tried to improve the Japanese education with the psychological standpoint.

Honors
1965~1967 The president at Japanese Psychological Association
1966 Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon
1952~1957 The first president at Nihon Kyoiku shinri gakkai ( Japan Educational Psychology Association)
President of Japan Applied Psychology Association
Director of Japan Educational Association
Vice president of Educational University Association

Key words
Educational Psychology, Educational measurement, Educational Account

Web links

References
Hiroshi Oizumi (2003). Nihonshinrigakusha-jiten. Tokyo: Kabushiki Kaisha Kress Shuppan.
Nihon no shinrigaku kanko iinkai. (1982).Nihon no shinrigaku. Tokyo: Nihon bunka kagaku sha.
Tatsuya Sato, Hazime Mizoguchi, (1997). Tsushi Nihon-no-shinrigaku. Kyoto: Kitaoji Shobo.



Usao Onoshima
Born: March 26th, 1894 in Ogo village, Mago county, Yamaguchi prefecture
Died: January 24th, 1941 in Beijing, China

Education
Doctor of Literature (1930) Tokyo Imperial University
- His academic dissertation was “Über Richtungs-und Angleichungskontrast in einen Verband von zwei Tonschritten.”
B.A. (1919) Department of Philosphy, College of Letters, Tokyo Imperial University (Major psychology)
- His academic dissertation was “Shinteki zainou soukan ni oyobosu syojyoken no kenkyu (Research of each conditions affecting interrelation of psychological ability)”

Landmarks
Worked at Ministry of Education and Mito high school
1921 Professor at Mito high school
1923-1926 Went to Germany as the abroad researcher for Ministry of Education and entered Berlin University (now Humboldt University) to study Gestalt psychology
1929 Professor at Tokyo higher normal school
1929 Instructor at Tokyo Bunrika University (Tokyo Science and Literature University)
1937 Supervisor at Ministry of Education
1938 Chief of educational research
1939 Visited Manshu country and China

Contributions
He contributed to introduce Gestalt psychology. He made his efforts to construct the psychological system on Gestalt psychology. Noting the lack of psychological education, practices, and interest in experiments, he tried to improve Japanese psychology.

Honors

Key words
Gestalt psychology, personal psychology

Web links

References
Hiroshi Oizumi (2003). Nihonshinrigakusha-jiten. Tokyo: Kabushiki Kaisha Kress Shuppan.
Nihon no shinrigaku kanko iinkai. (1982).Nihon no shinrigaku. Tokyo: Nihon bunka kagaku sha.


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