Incorporates translated material from the article in the Japanese Wikipedia Seiichi Tejima (手島 精一) was a Japanese educator of the Meiji period. Principal of the Tokyo Technical School, Tokyo Technical High School and Tokyo Higher Technical School, the former constituent parts of the current Tokyo 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 today Kyoritsu Women's University. The asteroid 8731 Tejima was named after him.

Early life and education

Son of a samurai retainer from Numazu, Shizuoka, Tejima travelled privately to the United States in 1870 entering a secondary school in Philadelphia and then attending classes at Lafayette College. When the Iwakura 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.

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