Etsuko Inada

Etsuko Inada (稲田 悦子) was a Japanese figure skater who mostly competed in singles. She was the first female athlete to represent Japan at the Winter Olympics. Inada began skating at eight years old. She was a seven-time Japanese national champion and represented Japan at the 1936 Winter Olympics at the age of 12. While competing there, she wore a costume given to her by the Japanese Women's Association of Berlin.

After the war, she married and had a son. She returned to competitive skating and won a competition shortly before the planned 1949 Japanese national championships, but the national championships were cancelled due to the weather becoming too warm. Her last competition was the 1951 World Figure Skating Championships.

Later in her life, she opened a store in Aoyama, Tokyo and coached at a rink in front of the Prince Chichibu Memorial Sports Museum, which holds her costume from the Olympics in its collection. Her students included Olympic skaters Miwa Fukuhara, Junko Hiramatsu, and Haruko Okamoto. She died in 2003 from stomach cancer.