death_date birth_place citizenship nationality name birth_date language spouse article_title birth_name occupation
1957 aomori prefecture , japan japan japanese hani motoko 1873 japanese language hani yoshikazu -lrb- 1901 - -rrb- hani motoko
 matsuoka motoko journalist
hani motoko

born into in a former samurai family , hani motoko was born matsuoka motoko in aomori prefecture and was baptized a christian in 1890 .
she was educated at tokyo first higher women 's school and then at the meiji women 's christian school .
after leaving school in 1892 , she taught school in hachinohe and in morioka .
her marriage in 1895 did not work out and she moved to tokyo , working as a maid for a female doctor .
she joined `` hochi shinbun '' in 1897 , working first as a copy editor and later becoming a reporter .
in 1901 , she married a co-worker hani yoshikazu .
together , they founded a new magazine `` fujin no tomo '' -lrb- women 's friend -rrb- in 1908 .
an association of readers of that magazine was established in 1930 which still existed as of 1999 .
in 1921 , the couple founded a private school for girls jiyu gakuen .
she wrote an autobiography in 1928 `` speaking of myself '' .
