Iai Joshi Women's Academy

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Iai Joshi Women's Academy 遺愛女子中学校・高等学校
Address
23-11 Suginami-chō Hakodate, Hokkaido, Japan 041-8543
Coordinates	41°47′14.4″N 140°45′24.2″E / 41.787333°N 140.756722°E / 41.787333; 140.756722
Information
Type	Private
Established	1874
Founders	Merriman Colbert Harris, Flora Harris
Gender	Girls

Iai Joshi Women's Academy (遺愛女子中学校・高等学校)^{[citation needed]} is a girls' school in Hakodate, Hokkaido, Japan. It consists of Iai Joshi Women's senior and junior high school.

Founded by Merriman Colbert Harris and wife Flora Harris in 1874,^[1] Iai Joshi Academy is the oldest girls' school in Japan's northernmost island of Hokkaido. In 1873, Harris, a missionary of the Methodist Episcopal Church, was sent to Japan and stationed in Hakodate, one of the first cities in Japan whose ports were opened as a result of the Ansei Treaties. The school started as a "day school" with an attendance of six in its first year.

• Official website