Azuma Moriya

[1] Moriya was secretary and traveling assistant to temperance activist Yajima Kajiko, first president of the WCTU in Japan.

[2][3] In 1908, Moriya was appointed Japanese national chair of the Loyal Temperance Legion (Shonen Kinshu Gun) program, the WCTU's outreach to children.

[12] Moriya traveled to Washington, D.C., with Yajima and Chiyo Kozaki in 1921,[13] to meet with president Warren G. Harding and deliver a petition on disarmament signed by over 10,000 Japanese women.

[19] In 1955, Azuma Moriya was described as the leader of the Women's Public Welfare Movement when she attended a royal reception for Helen Keller in Tokyo.

[20] Azuma Moriya took temporary custody of two girls from Pohnpei, arranging for their schooling in Japan before they returned to the island as teachers.

A news photograph showing a group of Japanese women at the White House in 1921.
A news photograph of Yajima Kajiko (lower left) and Azuma Moriya, standing next to her, in Washington, D.C., in 1921, from the Library of Congress.