Editing Hideyo Noguchi (section)

=== Leaving Japan ===
Noguchi was inspired to go to the United States. Partly, motivated by difficulties in obtaining a medical position in Japan as it required expensive schooling.<ref name=":10" /> He experienced discrimination as employers were concerned his hand deformity would discourage patients.<ref name=":10" />

In 1899, Noguchi met [[Simon Flexner]] during his internship as his translator, being one of a few people who spoke English and Japanese at the Kitasato Institute.<ref name=":29">{{Cite journal |last=Lederer |first=Susan |date=March 1985 |title=Hideyo Noguchi's Luetin Experiment and the Antivivisectionists |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/232791 |journal=The History of Science Society |volume=76 |issue=1 |pages=34 |doi=10.1086/353736 |jstor=232791 |pmid=3888912 |url-access=subscription }}</ref> Flexner, who was visiting to see research being made on dysentery from foreign scientists, gave polite words of encouragement to his desire to work in the United States.<ref name=":29" /><ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Kita |first=Atsushi |title=Dr. Noguchi's Journey: A Life of Medical Search and Discovery |date=2005 |publisher=Kodansha USA |pages=}}</ref> 

Noguchi decided that was that and bought a ticket on the ''[[America Maru]].'' Chiwaki took a loan to pay for it.<ref name=":56" />''<ref>{{Cite book |last=KIta |first=Atsushi |title=Dr. Noguchi's Journey: A Life Of Medical Search and Discovery |date=2005 |publisher=Kodansha USA |pages=131}}</ref>'' Noguchi hosted a party to celebrate, spending most of his money before leaving.<ref name=":56" />