Ochanomizu University
Afterwards, she entered into Tokyo Women's Normal School (present-day Ochanomizu University), which was at that time a private medical academy with an all-male student body. Despite all the prejudices and much hardship, she managed to graduate in 1882. Still, it was only thanks to a series of petitions that she was finally allowed to take her medical practitioner's examination in 1885, with full grades. Shortly after, she opened the Ogino Hospital in Yushima, specialising in obstetrics and gynecology to help women in their feminine struggles.