Setsuko Hani

She was educated at the school her parents founded, Jiyu Gakuen.

[1][2] Hani was a reporter and teacher as a young woman.

She was one of the founders of the Women's Democratic Club (Fujin minshū kurabu) in March 1946,[3] and joined Shidzue Kato, Yoko Matsuoka (who was also Hani's cousin), and other feminists in presenting a statement to General Douglas Macarthur on women's rights in post-war Japan.

[4] As a "child welfare expert", she expressed concern for the children born to Western fathers and Japanese women during the post-war occupation.

[5] In 1955 she was one of Japan's five representatives at the Women's International Democratic Federation (WIDF) meeting in Geneva.

11 Japanese women photographed as a group, outdoors, in 1946; five of the women are wearing kimonos, the rest are wearing western blouses and skirts.
On March 18, 1946, the social movement group "Women's Democratic Club" was founded. In the front row, one person from the left, are Kato Shidzue , Atsugi Taka, Miyamoto Yuriko , Sata Ineko , Kushida Fuki , and Hani Setsuko . In the back row, one person from the left, are Seki Kanko, Fujikawa Sachiko, and Yamamuro Tamiko.