Masao Oka
Masao Oka was a Japanese ethnologist and Japanologist. Oka is considered the leading figure in the establishment of Japanese ethnology since the 1930's.
Biography
He was born in Matsumoto, Nagano Prefecture. He was a graduate of the University of Tokyo and Tohoku University. He served on the faculty of Meiji University, Kanagawa Dental University, Wayo [Women's University], Tokyo [Metropolitan University] and Tokyo [University of Foreign Studies].He died on 15 December 1982 in Tokyo.