title: Masao Oka
text: # Masao Oka
  
  Masao Oka (岡 正雄, Oka Masao, 1898–1982) was a Japanese ethnologist and Japanologist.
  
  ## 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.
  
  