Niijima Yae, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Japanese former soldier and nurse
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Place of Birth: Aizu, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan
About Niijima Yae
- Niijima Yae (?? ??, born Yamamoto Yae (?? ??); 1 December 1845 – 14 June 1932), also known as Yamamoto Yaeko (?? ???), was a Japanese woman of the late Edo period who lived into the early Showa period.
- Skilled in gunnery, she helped defend Aizu during the Boshin War, earning her the nickname of the “Bakumatsu Joan of Arc”.
- Yaeko served as a nurse during the Russo-Japanese War and Sino-Japanese War, and became the first woman outside of Imperial House of Japan after the Meiji Restoration to be decorated for her service to the country.She was famously known as the wife of Joseph Hardy Neesima, the founder of Doshisha English School in 1875, and with a help of American missionary Alice J.
- Starkweather, they co-founded the Doshisha Girls’ School a year later.
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