The purpose of this study is to investigate the concept of the feminine role cross-culturally, comparing the Japanese with the American. From the previous studies of the feminine role, it has been made clear that there are two contradictory role concepts held by college women, other-oriented and self-oriented. We used a Feminine Role Rating Inventory by A. B. Fand in America and Japan. Japanese samples were 100 taken, from a11289 subjects. American data sent by Steinmann had 51 college women as the samples. Comparing the concept of the feminine role of Japanese women with the concept of the American, it is noted that on Own Self the Japanese women's concept is approximately equal to the American women's concept, but as to Ideal Self the orientation turns to the opposite. On the Men's Ideal Woman, the American students are more other-oriented than the Japanese. In the Ideal Self concept, there is the largest difference between the two cultures. From the comparison with regard to the components of the feminine role concept, the most remarkable differences between the two cultures are shown in attitudes toward the husband and children and society.