The Personality and life of Masayo Tabuti, the first Japan Red Cross Nurse to study abroad

田口雅代是一位活跃在日本现代护理之初的女性。在1920年召开的第一次红十字会总会上，决定将培养和发展公共卫生护士作为国家红十字会的业务之一，并从各国派遣学生参加第一届国际公共卫生护理研讨会。当时，日本因为准备时间不足，没有派遣留学生。然而，田内正代在1921年参加了第二次研讨会，因为她从高中时代就认真学习英语，并精通英语。回到日本后，她写了一份报告，介绍了她在研讨会上学到的东西，以及她所见所闻的欧洲各地机构的护理状况。然后她提出了一些建议。其中，她强调了英语教育的必要性，并敦促建立留学项目。许多在这个项目中受训的护士后来在国际上活跃起来。她还从事急救护士和公共卫生护士的培训工作。她被派去照顾在巴黎事故中受伤的北川公主。她在被派往西伯利亚的救援队中担任护士长，因为这些服务，她在1937年被授予南丁格尔徽章。

Masayo Tabuchi was a woman who was active at the dawning of modem nursing in Japan. At the First General Conference of the League of Red Cross Societies held in 1920, it was decided to train and develop public health nurses as one of the operations of the national Red Cross Societies, and students were dispatched from various nations to the first International Seminar of public health nursing. Japan refrained from sending students at this time because of the lack of time for preparation. However, Masayo Tabuchi participated in the second Seminar in 1921, because she had studied English earnestly since her high school days and was proficient in it. After returning to Japan, she wrote a report of what she learned at the seminar and the state of nursing at institutions in various parts of Europe that she saw or heard about. Then she made some proposals. Among them, she stressed the need for English education and urged the establishment of a program for studying abroad. Many nurses trained in this program later became active internationally. She was also engaged in the training of first-aid nurses and public health nurses. She was dispatched to nurse Princess Kitasirakawa, who was injured in an accident in Paris. She filled the role of the head nurse in the relief squad sent to Siberia, Because of these services, she was awarded a Nightingale badge in 1937.