Hiro Fujimoto is Assistant Professor at the Heidelberg Centre for Transcultural Studies, Heidelberg University, Germany. He works on the history of medicine in modern Japan from global and gender perspectives. He wrote several articles in Japanese and English, including “Women, Missionaries, and Medical Professions” (Japan Forum, 2020).Aya Homei is Reader in Japanese Studies at the University of Manchester, United Kingdom. She researches the history of medicine and science in modern Japan, focusing on population and reproduction. Her recent publications include Science for Governing Japan’s Population (2023).Ellen Gardner Nakamura is Senior Lecturer in Asian Studies at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. She specializes in the social history of medicine in nineteenth-century Japan. Her most recent monograph is Japanese Medical Lives in Transformation: Contesting Modernity in the Late Nineteenth Century (2025).

• Introduction: Restoring the Voices of Medical Women in the Japanese Empire1. Critique: Layers of Translation: A Linguistic Strategy for the Professionalization of Midwifery in the Early Meiji PeriodText: A Manual for Midwives2. Critique: With Scornful Laughter Rumbling in Her Ears: Ogino Ginko’s Critics and SupportersText: The Career of the First Modern Female Doctor3. Critique: “Home Doctors”: Yoshioka Yayoi’s Strategy to Promote Women Doctors in Modern JapanText: The Future of Women Doctors and Their Missions4. Critique: Glass Ceilings and Factory Floors: Kondō Toshiko and the Dawn of Public Health Nutrition in JapanText: Rootwork5. Critique: Resilient Paths: Opportunities and Challenges for Chinese Women Doctors Trained in Imperial JapanTexts: About Myself; Discussing Medical Equipment on the Home Front in Light of Martyr Liang’s Death; Impressions of a Woman Doctor Returning to China after Studying in Japan6. Critique: Carving Space: Women Physicians in Colonial KoreaText: A Roundtable with Women Physicians7. Critique: Navigating Gender and Medicine: A Comparative Study of Female Doctors in Colonial TaiwanText: An Interview with Shi Man8. Critique: Nursing War: Military, Medicine, and the Question of Femininity in Modern JapanText: A Military Nurse9. Critique: Providing Care on the Militarized Islands: Nursing Activities in Wartime OkinawaText: District Nurse Activities Amidst the War10. Critique: Saving the Lives of Settlers: District Nurses and Rural Healthcare in HokkaidoText: The Spirit of Compassion: Diaries of District Nurses in Hokkaido

Hiro Fujimoto is Assistant Professor at the Heidelberg Centre for Transcultural Studies, Heidelberg University, Germany. He works on the history of medicine in modern Japan from global and gender perspectives. He wrote several articles in Japanese and English, including “Women, Missionaries, and Medical Professions” (Japan Forum, 2020).Aya Homei is Reader in Japanese Studies at the University of Manchester, United Kingdom. She researches the history of medicine and science in modern Japan, focusing on population and reproduction. Her recent publications include Science for Governing Japan’s Population (2023).Ellen Gardner Nakamura is Senior Lecturer in Asian Studies at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. She specializes in the social history of medicine in nineteenth-century Japan. Her most recent monograph is Japanese Medical Lives in Transformation: Contesting Modernity in the Late Nineteenth Century (2025).

• Introduction: Restoring the Voices of Medical Women in the Japanese Empire1. Critique: Layers of Translation: A Linguistic Strategy for the Professionalization of Midwifery in the Early Meiji PeriodText: A Manual for Midwives2. Critique: With Scornful Laughter Rumbling in Her Ears: Ogino Ginko’s Critics and SupportersText: The Career of the First Modern Female Doctor3. Critique: “Home Doctors”: Yoshioka Yayoi’s Strategy to Promote Women Doctors in Modern JapanText: The Future of Women Doctors and Their Missions4. Critique: Glass Ceilings and Factory Floors: Kondō Toshiko and the Dawn of Public Health Nutrition in JapanText: Rootwork5. Critique: Resilient Paths: Opportunities and Challenges for Chinese Women Doctors Trained in Imperial JapanTexts: About Myself; Discussing Medical Equipment on the Home Front in Light of Martyr Liang’s Death; Impressions of a Woman Doctor Returning to China after Studying in Japan6. Critique: Carving Space: Women Physicians in Colonial KoreaText: A Roundtable with Women Physicians7. Critique: Navigating Gender and Medicine: A Comparative Study of Female Doctors in Colonial TaiwanText: An Interview with Shi Man8. Critique: Nursing War: Military, Medicine, and the Question of Femininity in Modern JapanText: A Military Nurse9. Critique: Providing Care on the Militarized Islands: Nursing Activities in Wartime OkinawaText: District Nurse Activities Amidst the War10. Critique: Saving the Lives of Settlers: District Nurses and Rural Healthcare in HokkaidoText: The Spirit of Compassion: Diaries of District Nurses in Hokkaido

Hiro Fujimoto is Assistant Professor at the Heidelberg Centre for Transcultural Studies, Heidelberg University, Germany. He works on the history of medicine in modern Japan from global and gender perspectives. He wrote several articles in Japanese and English, including “Women, Missionaries, and Medical Professions” (Japan Forum, 2020).Aya Homei is Reader in Japanese Studies at the University of Manchester, United Kingdom. She researches the history of medicine and science in modern Japan, focusing on population and reproduction. Her recent publications include Science for Governing Japan’s Population (2023).Ellen Gardner Nakamura is Senior Lecturer in Asian Studies at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. She specializes in the social history of medicine in nineteenth-century Japan. Her most recent monograph is Japanese Medical Lives in Transformation: Contesting Modernity in the Late Nineteenth Century (2025).

• Introduction: Restoring the Voices of Medical Women in the Japanese Empire1. Critique: Layers of Translation: A Linguistic Strategy for the Professionalization of Midwifery in the Early Meiji PeriodText: A Manual for Midwives2. Critique: With Scornful Laughter Rumbling in Her Ears: Ogino Ginko’s Critics and SupportersText: The Career of the First Modern Female Doctor3. Critique: “Home Doctors”: Yoshioka Yayoi’s Strategy to Promote Women Doctors in Modern JapanText: The Future of Women Doctors and Their Missions4. Critique: Glass Ceilings and Factory Floors: Kondō Toshiko and the Dawn of Public Health Nutrition in JapanText: Rootwork5. Critique: Resilient Paths: Opportunities and Challenges for Chinese Women Doctors Trained in Imperial JapanTexts: About Myself; Discussing Medical Equipment on the Home Front in Light of Martyr Liang’s Death; Impressions of a Woman Doctor Returning to China after Studying in Japan6. Critique: Carving Space: Women Physicians in Colonial KoreaText: A Roundtable with Women Physicians7. Critique: Navigating Gender and Medicine: A Comparative Study of Female Doctors in Colonial TaiwanText: An Interview with Shi Man8. Critique: Nursing War: Military, Medicine, and the Question of Femininity in Modern JapanText: A Military Nurse9. Critique: Providing Care on the Militarized Islands: Nursing Activities in Wartime OkinawaText: District Nurse Activities Amidst the War10. Critique: Saving the Lives of Settlers: District Nurses and Rural Healthcare in HokkaidoText: The Spirit of Compassion: Diaries of District Nurses in Hokkaido