Her leadership position took her abroad in her seventies and eighties . In 1906 , she spoke at the world convention of the WCTU in Boston ; on that trip she also visited New York , Philadelphia , Pittsburgh , Chicago , and San Francisco , and went to the White House with other temperance activists to meet president Theodore Roosevelt . In 1920 , with her countrywomen Tsume Yamada Gauntlett and Michiko Kawai , she traveled to London and Geneva for international conferences on temperance and suffrage , respectively . In 1921 , Kaji Yajima traveled at her own expense to the Washington , D.C. for the Conference for the Limitation of Armaments . She met with American suffragists , and with President Warren G. Harding , to whom she delivered a 300-foot-long peace petition signed by Japanese women . Prince Tokugawa held a reception in her honor at the conference . On the same trip , she visited New York City to address the Friends ' Foreign Missionary Association , Presbyterian mission board , and the Young Women 's Christian Association . Her 1921 visit to the United States was covered by many American newspapers and magazines ; she took the opportunity to express her hopes for world peace : " When I am gone , remember that I stood here looking into your faces expressing the hope that you will do all that is in your power as this old body will , that the world may know peace from now on . We have come to the time when we not only want peace , but know we must have it . " In her message to the " Christian women of America " , Kaji Yajima assured her audience that " the women of Japan want education , not battleships or armies . They want the government to spend money , not on military establishments , but on schools . " Yajima was married unhappily and had three children ; she left her alcoholic husband by age 40 , and converted to Christianity in midlife ; she was baptized as a Presbyterian at age 45 . She survived the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake , and died in 1925 , aged 93 years
1923 Great Kantō earthquake
1923 Great Kantō earthquake
Yajima Kajiko