William Willis
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William Willis (1847-94). British physician (medical doctor) who joined the British mission in Japan in 1861.
Willis treated the British nationals wounded in the Namamugi Incident and the Bombardment of Kagoshima. He was later appointed professor and clinical chief of the Igakko (later the faculty of medicine of Tokyo University.
In 1870, Willis resigned to become head of the hospital and medical school in Kagoshima that later became the medical department of Kagoshima University. With the outbreak of the Satsuma Rebellion in 1877, Willis returned to Tokyo. He returned to England in 1881, and later spent time with his great friend Ernest Satow in Bangkok.
[edit] See also
- Anglo-Japanese relations
- Hugh Cortazzi 1985, Dr. Willis in Japan, 1862-1877: British medical pioneer (London: Athlone Press) ISBN 0-485-11264-7
