The education of women in Japan . x in other schools, five inkindergartens as conductors, and one had notdecided what line of teaching to follow. Not a few of the graduates of this schoolwho have shown unusual ability have been sentabroad by the government to specialize in thesubjects particularly interesting to Kin Kato Takeda studied English in theSalem Normal School of Massachusetts andat Wellesley College. Miss Mitsu Okada andMiss Matsu Okonogi also studied English atWellesley. Miss Aguri Inoguchi took a coursein the School of Physical Culture in Simi Miyagawa and Mis
The education of women in Japan . x in other schools, five inkindergartens as conductors, and one had notdecided what line of teaching to follow. Not a few of the graduates of this schoolwho have shown unusual ability have been sentabroad by the government to specialize in thesubjects particularly interesting to Kin Kato Takeda studied English in theSalem Normal School of Massachusetts andat Wellesley College. Miss Mitsu Okada andMiss Matsu Okonogi also studied English atWellesley. Miss Aguri Inoguchi took a coursein the School of Physical Culture in Simi Miyagawa and Miss Tetsu Yasuiboth studied in England; Miss Miyagawataking work in domestic science and hygieneat Bedford College of the University of Lon-don, and at the London Polytechnic; MissYasui studying the history of education anddomestic science at Cambridge Training Col-lege. Each of these young women is requiredto teach six years for the government uponher return. The Siamese government askedthe aid of Japan in establishing a Peeresses. 5-1 o u O Of) oN Government Education for Women 127 School and Miss Yasui was sent to give hersix years of required service to that v^ork. Onher return to Japan she became a teacher inthe Peeresses School in Tokyo. Many of theseyoung v^omen have returned to teach in theirAlma Mater, the Girls Higher Normal Schoolof Tokyo. The Higher Normal Schools offer the mostadvanced educational opportunities providedfor women by the government of government has established no womanscollege and has made no provision for womenin its Universities. Three special schools, the Tokyo MusicalAcademy, the Tokyo School for the Blind,and the Tokyo School for the Dumb, completethe list of government institutions which makeprovision for women. Of the 509 studentsin the Academy of Music in 1911, 354 werewomen. The statistics for the School for theBlind and the School for the Dumb for 1911do not distinguish between men and womenstudents, but figures for previous years
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