Saisei Gakusha - Saisei Gakusha

A representative private medical school of the Meiji era. It was founded in 1876 (Meiji 9) in Hongo Motomachi, Tokyo, by Hasegawa Tai, former principal of Tokyo Medical School. Along with Keio Gijuku Medical School, which was established in 1873, it was one of the earliest private medical schools in Japan to adopt modern Western medicine. Modeled on the German university system, it had an open enrollment system that did not restrict enrollment dates or qualifications, and over the 28 years leading up to its closure, it is said that over 21,000 students enrolled and 9,628 passed the medical license exam. In 1982, it moved to a new building in Hongo Yushima 4-chome, and the following year it established an affiliated hospital, calling it the Tokyo Medical College Saisei Gakusha. When the College Ordinance was promulgated in 1903 (Meiji 36), the Ministry of Education cited a lack of basic funding, and Hasegawa said it was pressure from the Ministry of Education, but the school was closed because it was "not allowed to be called a private medical college."

[Akinori Kamiya]

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明治時代を代表する私立医学校。1876年（明治9）、元東京医学校校長心得(こころえ)、長谷川泰(はせがわたい)によって、東京・本郷元町に創設された。73年の慶応義塾医学所と並んで、西洋近代医学によるわが国最初期の私立医学校である。ドイツの大学制度を模して、入学の時期、資格を問わない自由就学制度をとり、廃校に至る28年間に入学者は2万1000人余、医術開業試験合格者9628人であったという。82年、本郷湯島四丁目に新築移転、翌年には付属病院も設けて、東京医学専門学校済生学舎と称した。1903年（明治36）専門学校令公布にあたり、文部省は基本金の不足をいい、長谷川は文部当局の圧迫といったが、「私立医科大学と称することを許されず」廃校した。

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