Yoshiko Noguchi (Japanese: 野口 芳子, born (1949-07-07)7 July 1949) is one of the leading researchers on Grimm's Fairy tales in Japan.
She is different from other researchers in that she discusses how Grimm's fairy tales are accepted in Japan and the UK from an interdisciplinary perspective.
She subsequently studied European ethnology under Ingeborg Weber-Kellermann at Philipps University of Marburg, Germany, as a research fellow at the Rotary International Foundation.
[7] She was a judge of Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research of Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.
Her treatise, interpreted from a gender perspective, overturns the traditional stereotypes of "Cinderella" and "Snow White," and is very innovative and interesting.