[1] In 1921, her mother Hideko Inoue attended the Conference on Limitation of Armament in Washington D.C., representing the women's peace movement in Japan, with Yajima Kajiko and plant scientist Marian Irwin Osterhout.

[2][3][4] Shina Inoue graduated from Japan Women's University in 1921, and spent a year at the Punahou School in Hawaii on the Friend Peace Scholarship.

[6] After World War II, she completed further coursework in social welfare at Columbia University and Union Theological Seminary.

"Thus, in many fields the women of Japan are being gradually freed from disabilities inherited from the feudal past," she concluded, "and are striving to attain a position of equality in political, economic, and social life.

[13] Before 1927, Shina Inoue married Christian theologian, professor and translator William Enkichi Kan (1895-1972).