Ogino was born in 1851 and died 1913. She was the first licensed woman physician in Western medicine in Japan. Ginko was born in Japan and soon got married to the son of the first director of a bank, but soon got divorced because she got a very bad disease that, if left untreated could kill anyone who has it. After bearing the embarrassment of having to visit male doctors for what they used to call a "shameful disease " she decided to become a doctor to help women in similar situations.After graduating from Tokyo Womens Normal School, she entered Junetendo University where after after a lot of hardship, she finally graduated and, after numerous petitions they finally allowed her to take her Medical Practitioners Exam.
After that ,she opened the Ogino hospital in Yushima, specializing in obstetrics and gynecology. She also worked as a staff doctor in a womens university. A little later, she remarried a protestant clergyman and utopian visionary , Yukiyoshi Shikata and traveled with him to Hokkaido where she ran a medical practice . After her husband and died she returned to Tokyo where she continued running a hospital. A while after she died of atherosclerosis in 1913.
