Satoko Togano

Satoko Togano (; 29 November 1908 – 7 November 1971) was a Japanese politician. She was one of the first group of women elected to the House of Representatives in 1946, serving in parliament until her death in 1971.

Biography Togano was born in (now part of Matsumoto in 1908, the second daughter of Yoriyoshi Yoshida, a high school headteacher. She studied English at Doshisha University, after which she moved to Tokyo to work in the League of Nations office. In 1930 she married , a reporter for The Asahi Shimbun. The following year she became a teacher at the Tokyo Atago English School. In 1939 she transferred to Seiran Girls' Commercial School. After being elected, she joined the Japan Socialist Party. She was re-elected in 1947 and 1949. After joining the Rightist Socialist Party of Japan, she was re-elected in 1952 and 1953. She subsequently rejoined the JSP and was re-elected in 1955, 1958, 1960, 1963, 1967 and 1969. A member of the Jōtarō Kawakami faction of the party, in 1970 she became the first woman to chair the JSP.

In August 1971 Togano was hospitalised due to kidney disease. She died in November the same year and was buried at Tsukiji Hongan-ji.