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he Meiji Restoration and I were born in the same year, 1868. The former saw the light of the day in the shogun’s former capital of Edo, which came to be known as Tokyo. I was born in the district of Yamakawa-chõ in the royal Okinawan capital of Shuri. I f anyone were to take the trouble to consult official records, he would learn that I was born in the third year of Meiji (1870), but the true facts are my birthday occurred in the first year of the reign and that I had to falsify my official record so as to be allowed to sit for entrance examinations to a Tokyo medical school.