Military nurse - 1911 military nurse

Japanese: 従軍看護婦 - じゅうぐんかんごふ

A nurse who is part of the military's chain of command and who cares for wounded soldiers on the battlefield. In Japan, the Hakuaisha, the predecessor of the Japanese Red Cross, had already sent male nurses to Kumamoto and Nagasaki during the Seinan War. When the Sino-Japanese War broke out, the Japanese Red Cross dispatched nurses it had trained to the battlefields of Ujina and Hiroshima. The fact that women would take part in the war attracted public attention, and the Women's Military Song (1894, "The sound of the firearms recedes into the distance..."), which was composed at that time, was sung for many years to come. During the Russo-Japanese War, their activities expanded to Korea and Manchuria, and some nurses were killed.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

戦地で傷病兵の看護に当たり，軍の指揮系統に属する看護婦。日本では，日本赤十字社の前身である博愛社がすでに西南戦争に際して看護人(男性)を熊本や長崎に送っている。日清戦争が起きると日本赤十字社は自社で養成した看護婦を臨戦地の宇品，広島へ派遣した。戦争に女性も参加するということで世人の注目をひき，このとき作られた《婦人従軍歌》(1894，〈火筒（ほづつ）の響き遠ざかる……〉)はのちのちまで歌われた。日露戦争では活動の場は朝鮮，満州まで広がり，死亡者も出ている。

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