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Ioko Okumura was born in 1876.
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Ioko Okumura
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Toward the end of the Shogunate, she worked for the cause of the Meiji Restoration (1868). She was an advocate of an expedition to Korea and protected Kim Okkym, a Korean exile in Japan. She went to Korea and founded a school at Kwanchu. When the Boxer Trouble broke out (1900), Ioko Okumura went to China and worked among Japanese soldiers. Upon returning to Japan, she organized the Patriotic Women's Association, a nation-wide organization for aid of soldiers which played an important role in wartime. During the Russo-Japanese War, she visited the Manchuria front.
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She married a certain Koibuchi, a native of Mito, but was divorced.
