Yoshi Kajiro
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Yoshi Kajiro | |
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上代 淑 | |
 Yoshi Kajiro, from a 1907 publication. | |
| Pronunciation | かじろ よし |
| Born | 1871 |
| Died | 1959 (aged 87–88) |
| Alma mater | Mount Holyoke College |
Yoshi Kajiro (1871–1959) was a Japanese educator, the longtime principal of the Sanyō Girls' High School in Okayama.
Yoshi Kajiro was born in Matsuyama, in Ehime Prefecture, the daughter of Kajiro Tomoyoshi (1852–1921), a Christian convert who later established a Japanese church in the Kakaako district of Honolulu.[1] She was educated at Baika Girls' School, which was founded by Japanese Christians.[2]
At Mount Holyoke College
Sponsored by American missionaries, she attended Mount Holyoke College in the United States, to train as a teacher.[3] She was the third of four women to attend Mount Holyoke from Japan in the 1890s.[2] She was required by the mission board to wear western clothing while attending Mount Holyoke as a student, though she wore a traditional kimono for demonstrations.[4] Her opinion on the First Sino-Japanese War was reported by a New York newspaper in 1894, while Kajiro was a student on summer vacation in Honeoye, New York.[5]
