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Niigata Prefecture is one area of Japan that witnessed large-scale population and economic growth during the Meiji Period (1868-1912) when modern pharmacy was introduced from the west.As a result, Niigata had more pharmacists than other prefectures, and its pharmaceutical businesses flourished.
In the first decade of the Meiji Period, a medical school was founded, to which a pharmacy school was later added. This was one of the earliest schools of pharmacy in Japan. In the second decade of the Meiji Period, two pharmaceutical journals were published. These journals introduced modern pharmaceutical science and were equal in status to those published in Kyoto and Kobe. Two societies were founded: Niigata Pharmaceutical Association in 1882 and Niigata City Pharmaceutical Association in 1901. The production and distribution (peddling) of medicines also took place on a wide scale in Niigata. The Niigata School of Medicine
was founded in 1910, where some pharmacists gave lectures on chemistry and worked in the school's hospital.
During the Meiji Period, Niigata was one area of the country where modern pharmaceutical science had achieved progress.
