Kunie Miyaji (born 1891) was a pioneering woman physician in Japan.

Life

Kunie Miyaji was born 1 March 1891 in Suzaki,

Kōchi Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located on the island of Shikoku. Kōchi Prefecture has a population of 757,914 (1 December 2011) and has a geographic area of 7,103 km2 (2,742 sq mi). Kōchi Prefecture borders Ehime Prefecture to the northwest and ...

. She was educated at high school in Kochi and at boarding school, graduating 1909. She then studied at Tokyo Women's Medical School, graduating in 1914 but staying there for two more years training in

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. From 1916 to 1919 she practiced medicine in

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. Returning home, she married Katsuro Miyaji and did further gynecological study at

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. She opened a practice and built a medical hospital in her home town of Kochi. She helped form the Japanese Women's Medical Association. She returned to study in the late 1930s, gaining a PhD from Tokyo Imperial University School of Medicine in 1945.

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1891 births Year of death missing 20th-century Japanese physicians Japanese gynaecologists People from Kōchi Prefecture 20th-century Japanese women physicians {{Japan-bio-stub