Sada Orihara (1908-1960) was the first woman to attend the Tokyo Institute of Technology in Japan.
Orihara was educated at the Maebashi Girls' Senior High School and the Tokyo Women's Higher Normal School (now Ochanomizu University).
She then enrolled as a scholarship student in the Department of Dye Chemistry at Tokyo Institute of Technology in Meguro, Tokyo, Japan.
[1][2] She graduated in 1931 and began her career back at the Tokyo Women's Higher Normal School, where she was first employed as a teacher.
[1] Orihara married Kiyoshi Takiura, who she had met whilst a student at Tokyo Tech, in 1939.