Chie Nakane(中根 千枝Nakane Chie, born 1926) is a Japanese author and anthropologist.Nakane Chie of the University of Tokyo, trained after the war, has long been the best-known Japanese anthropologist outside Japan. She is noteworthy in part as one of very few women of her generation in Japan to become a professor at a major Japanese university. She is most famous for her 1970 book, JAPANESE SOCIETY.