Inokuchi Akuri

Inokuchi was a teacher in Tokyo before her time in the United States.^[7] On her return to Japan in 1903, Inokuchi taught physical education at Girls' High School in Tokyo,^[8][9] and introduced a women's exercise costume of bloomers and middy blouses and calf-length skirts, for comfortable vigorous movement.^[10][11][12] She published a report, Taiiku no riron oyobi jissai (Theory and Practice of Physical Education) in 1906.^[4] She is considered one of the pioneers of women's modern physical education in Japan.^[13]

Inokuchi also taught in the imperial household for a time, and was head of a girls' school in Taipei.^[14]

Inokuchi married in 1911, and was known as Fujita Akuri.^[15] The couple spent a brief time living in San Francisco, and in the 1920s she traveled to London as a tutor. She died in 1931, aged 60 years.