page_title: Tsuda Umeko
section_title: Establishment of Tsuda College
hierarchical_section_title: Tsuda Umeko / Establishment of Tsuda College
caption_attribution_description: 日本語: 左から： 津田梅子、アリス・ベーコン、瓜生繁子、大山捨松 English: from left: Umeko Tsuda (1864–1929), Alice Bacon (1858–1918), Baroness Shigeko Uryū (1862–1928), Princess Sutematsu Ōyama (1860–1919)
context_page_description: Tsuda Umeko was a Japanese educator, Christian, and pioneer in education for women in Meiji period Japan. Originally named Tsuda Ume, with mume or ume referring to the Japanese plum, she went by the name Ume Tsuda while studying in the United States before changing her name to Umeko in 1902.
context_section_description: After returning to Japan, Tsuda Ume once again taught at Peeresses' School, as well as at Tokyo Women's Normal School, her salary was 800 yen and her post was the highest available to women of her era. She published several dissertations and made speeches about improving the status of women. The 1899 Girl's Higher Education Law, required each prefecture to establish at least one public middle school for girls. However, these schools were not able to provide girls with the same quality of education as that of the boys' schools. In 1900, with the help of her friends Princess Ōyama Sutematsu and Alice Bacon, she founded the Joshi Eigaku Juku (女子英学塾, Women's Institute for English Studies) located in Kōjimachi, Tokyo to provide equal opportunity for a liberal arts education for all women regardless of parentage. She later changed her name to Tsuda Umeko in 1902. The school faced a chronic funding shortfall, and Tsuda spent much time fundraising in order to support the school. Due to her enthusiastic efforts, the school gained official recognition in 1903.
  In 1905, Tsuda became the first president of the Japanese branch of the Tokyo YWCA.
caption: Friends meet again: Tsuda Umeko, Alice Mabel Bacon, Uryū Shigeko, Ōyama Sutematsu (from left to right)
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