Background
Tanemichi Aoyama was born in Gifu Prefecture, the third son of Aoyama Kagemichi, a member of the Naeki clan.
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Tanemichi Aoyama was born in Gifu Prefecture, the third son of Aoyama Kagemichi, a member of the Naeki clan.
He was employed as a pathology classroom assistant at Tokyo University after graduating from its medical school in 1882. He later studied abroad at the University of Berlin, and returned to Japan to become a professor at the Tokyo Imperial University medical college (reigning as the Aoyama of internal medicine.
He later studied abroad at the University of Berlin, and returned to Japan to become a professor at the Tokyo Imperial University medical college (reigning as the Aoyama of internal medicine. Tanemichi won his doctorate in 1894. He contracted the bubonic plague while on a mission of combating an epidemic of that disease in Hongkong together with Shibasaburs Kitazato. He recovered and became director of the Medical Department Tokyo University in 1901. When Emperor Meiji fell ill, he gave him advice as a medical Commissioner of the Imperial Household. Later he became a director of the Infectious Disease Research Institute. He was also responsible for improvements in Japan's medical administration. In 1901, he established the Cancer Institute.
