page_title: Aoyama Tanemichi
hierarchical_section_title: Aoyama Tanemichi
caption_attribution_description: 日本語: 青山胤通（1859-1917）
context_page_description: Aoyama Tanemichi was a medical scientist and doctor. He became a member of the Imperial Japan Academy in 1906, received the first class medal, "Order of the Sacred Treasure", in 1916, and was given the title of Danshaku in 1917.
  He was born in Edo, the third son of Aoyama Kagemichi, a member of the Naeki clan. 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 professor at the Tokyo Imperial University medical college. He later served as the headmaster at Tokyo Imperial University medical college, director of the Institute of Infectious Diseases, and the Court Physician of Meiji Taitei. In 1901, he established the Cancer Institute.
  Aoymama's grave is in the Yanaka cemetery in Taito-ku. A memorial statue by Shinkai Taketaro also exists near the University of Tokyo school of pharmaceutical sciences.
context_section_description: Aoyama Tanemichi (青山 胤通, June 15, 1859–December 23, 1917) was a medical scientist and doctor.  He became a member of the Imperial Japan Academy in 1906, received the first class medal, "Order of the Sacred Treasure", in 1916, and was given the title of Danshaku (baron) in 1917.
  He was born in Edo, the third son of Aoyama Kagemichi, a member of the Naeki clan.  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 professor at the Tokyo Imperial University medical college (reigning as the Aoyama of internal medicine).  He later served as the headmaster at Tokyo Imperial University medical college, director of the Institute of Infectious Diseases (the present-day University of Tokyo Institute of Medical Science), and the Court Physician of Meiji Taitei (Mutsuhito the Great).  In 1901, he established the Cancer Institute.
  Aoymama's grave is in the Yanaka cemetery in Taito-ku.  A memorial statue by Shinkai Taketaro also exists near the University of Tokyo school of pharmaceutical sciences.
caption: Aoyama Tanemichi
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