[Japanese students and assistants of the medical faculty of Strasbourg from 1872 to 1918].

After the annexation of Alsace by Germany, ratified by the treatise of Versailles in January 1871, a new large-scale university was created in Strasbourg by the German authorities. It was inaugurated the 1st of May 1872, named Kaiser-Wilhelms-Universität from 1877, and existed until the return of Alsace to France in 1918. Due to its prestige, this university rapidly attracted foreign students (i.e. nor Alsation nor German, representing the majority). Among those, 48 Japanese students were registered at the Faculty of Medicine between 1872 and 1918, and moreover one assistant, and in particular (by chronological order of first registration): Kenji Osawa (1878-1882), Yoshikiyo Koganei (1882-1883), Tsukasa Hirota (1885-1888), Masunosuke Hirayama (1889-1890), Trasaburo Araki (1889-1893), Tatsukichi Irisawa (1890-1892), Katsutake Azuma (1898-1899), Akira Fujinami (1898-1899), Toshijiro Chiba (1899-1900), Junichi Mochizuki (1899-1900), Buntaro Adachi (1899-1903), Haruo Hayashi (1903-1904), Ryokichi Inada (1904-1905), Takaoki Sasaki (1905-1906), Kaoru Aoki (1908-1913), and Jujiro Honda (1910-1911), who had then a prestigious universitary career in Japan. Among these 48 students, at least 7 realized their dissertation for the doctorate of medicine in Strasbourg (Osawa 1882, Maki 1884, Takahashi 1887, Mayeda 1890, Araki 1891, Matsuyama 1898, Ito 1899).