Yoshioka Yayoi

Yoshioka Yayoi (吉岡彌生, April 29, 1871 - May 22, 1959) was a physician and women's rights activist, who founded the Tokyo Women's Medical University (東京女子医科大学, Tōkyō Joshi Ika Daigaku) in 1900, as the first medical school for women in Japan. She was also known as Washiyama Yayoi. Yoshioka was born in what is now part of Kakegawa city, Shizuoka prefecture, where her father, a physician, advocated primary education for the village children. Yayoi gre... more

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