was a medical scientist and doctor specializing in

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. He became a member of the Imperial Japan Academy in 1906, received the first class medal, "Order of the Sacred Treasure", in 1916, and was given the title of ''Danshaku'' (

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) in 1917.

Early life and career

He was born in

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, the third son of Aoyama Kagemichi, a member of the Naegi Domain. He was employed as a pathology classroom assistant at

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after graduating from its medical school in 1882. He later studied abroad at the

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, and returned to Japan to become a professor at the

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medical college (reigning as the ''Aoyama'' of internal medicine). He later served as the headmaster at Tokyo Imperial University medical college, director of the Institute of Infectious Diseases (the present-day University of Tokyo Institute of Medical Science), and the Court Physician of Meiji Taitei ( Mutsuhito the Great). In 1901, he established the Cancer Institute. Aoymama's grave is in the Yanaka cemetery in Taito-ku. A memorial statue by Shinkai Taketaro also exists near the University of Tokyo school of pharmaceutical sciences.

References

1859 births 1917 deaths 19th-century Japanese physicians {{Japan-med-bio-stub