Aoyama Tanemichi
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Aoyama Tanemichi (青山 胤通? June 15, 1859–December 23, 1917) was a medical scientist, and MD. He became a member of the Imperial Japan Academy (帝国学士院会員?) in 1906, received the first class medal Order of the Sacred Treasure (勲一等瑞宝章?) in 1916, and was given the title of Danshaku (男爵) (=baron) in 1917
He was born in Edo, the third son of Aoyama Kagemichi「青山景通」, a member of the the Naeki clan (苗木藩?). 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 proffesor at the Tokyo Imperial University medical college (東京帝國大學醫科大學校内科第一講座)(reigning as the Aoyama internal medicine (青山内科)). He later served as the headmaster at Tokyo Imperial University medical college (東京帝國大學醫科大學校), directory of the Institute of Infectious Diseases (伝染病研究所?) (the present-day University of Tokyo Institute of Medical Science 東京大学医科学研究所), and the Court Physician of Meiji Taitei (明治大帝=Mutsuhito the Great). In 1901, he established the Cancer Institute (癌研究会).
Aoymama's grave is in the Yanaka cemetery in Taito-ku. A memorial statue by Shinkai Taketaro (新海竹太郎) also exists near the University of Tokyo school of pharmaceutical sciences.
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