Kanazawa University
He was born in 1867 to the home of a samurai in Kaga, Ishikawa, and his childhood name was Kohkichi Shoda (庄田 豊哉?? "Shōda ??"). He graduated from Kanazawa Medical School, now the Faculty of Medicine, Kanazawa University in 1887, and entered the Department of Pathology at Tokyo University under Moriharu Miura ( "Miura Moriharu"). In the same year, he was adopted to Katsurada family, and his name was changed to Fujiro.