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Iai Joshi Women's Academy 遺愛女子中?校?高等?校
Address
23-11 Suginami-ch? Hakodate, Hokkaido , Japan 041-8543
Coordinates	41°47′14.4″N 140°45′24.2″E  /  41.787333°N 140.756722°E  / 41.787333; 140.756722
Information
Type	Private
Established	1874
Founders	Merriman Colbert Harris , Flora Harris
Gender	Girls

Iai Joshi Women's Academy ( 遺愛女子中?校?高等?校 ) ^{[ citation needed ]} is a girls' school in Hakodate, Hokkaido , Japan. It consists of Iai Joshi Women's senior and junior high school.

History [ edit ]

Founded by Merriman Colbert Harris and wife Flora Harris in 1874, ^[1] Iai Joshi Academy is the oldest girls' school in Japan's northernmost island of Hokkaido . In 1873, Harris, a missionary of the Methodist Episcopal Church , was sent to Japan and stationed in Hakodate , one of the first cities in Japan whose ports were opened as a result of the Ansei Treaties . The school started as a "day school" with an attendance of six in its first year.

References [ edit ]

External links [ edit ]

• Official website