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Seiichi Tejima (手島 精一,Tejima Seiichi; 1850-01-11 - 1918-01-23[1]) was aJapaneseeducator of theMeiji period. Principal of the Tokyo Technical School, Tokyo Technical High School and Tokyo Higher Technical School, the former constituent parts of the currentTokyo Institute of Technology. A prominent advocate for technical education, Tejima became the second president of the Tokyo Institute of Technology and served in this capacity from 1890-1898, 1899-1901 and 1901-1916.
Tejima was also one of the many co-founders of what is todayKyoritsu Women's University. The asteroid8731 Tejima was named after him.
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Son of a samurai retainer fromNumazu, Shizuoka, Tejima travelled privately to the United States in 1870 entering a secondary school in Philadelphia and then attending classes atLafayette College. When theIwakura Mission arrived in Washington DC in early 1872 he offered his services as a translator and stayed with the mission as they travelled to Europe. In 1873 he returned to the United Kingdom to study rail transportation.[2]
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