Iai Joshi Women's Academy | |
Native Name: | 遺愛女子中学校・高等学校 |
Established: | 1874 |
Founders: | Merriman Colbert Harris, Flora Harris |
Type: | Private |
Gender: | Girls |
Location: | Hakodate, Hokkaido, Japan |
Coordinates: | 41.7873°N 140.7567°W |
Pushpin Map: | Japan Hokkaido |
Pushpin Map Alt: | Iai Joshi Women's Academy in Hokkaido, Japan |
Postcode: | 041-8543 |
Address: | 23-11 Suginami-chō |
is a girls' school in Hakodate, Hokkaido, Japan. It consists of Iai Joshi Women's senior and junior high school.
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.