Yone Moriyama (, 14 January 1891 – 30 October 1990) was a Japanese educator and politician. She was one of the first group of women elected to the House of Representatives in 1946.Otsuka Kiyoe (2008) Japanese Women's Legislative and Administrative Reforms in the Postwar Era Bulletin of the Faculty of Education, Kagoshima University
Biography Moriyama was born in Kurume in 1891. She was educated at and Nara Girl's Higher Normal School. She then studied at Columbia University in the United States as an overseas researcher for the Ministry of Education. After returning to Japan, she worked as a teacher at and Girl's Normal Schools in Mie and Fukuoka, after which she became a professor at Fukuoka Women's College. After retiring, she moved to Brazil, but returned to Japan in 1942.
Moriyama contested the 1946 general elections (the first in which women could vote) as a Japan Progressive Party candidate, and was elected to the House of Representatives.Analysis of the 1946 Japanese General Election United States Department of State, 1946, p67 She did not run for re-election in 1947 general elections and withdrew from public life. She lived with her niece for the rest of her life and died in 1990.
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