Toshikazu Wakatsuki, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Japanese physician (1910-2006)
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Place of Birth: Tokyo, Japan
About Toshikazu Wakatsuki
- Toshikazu Wakatsuki (????, Wakatsuki Toshikazu, June 26, 1910 – August, 2006) was a Japanese medical doctor.
- He received a M.D.
- from the University of Tokyo in 1936 and a PhD from the same institution in 1947, after imprisonment for anti-war views during World War II.
- In 1946, Wakatsuki performed Japan's first tubercular spinal caries and also organised its first blood bank.
- He founded the Japanese Association of Rural Medicine.
- Wakatsuki was awarded the 1976 Ramon Magsaysay Award for his contributions to rural medicine, as well as the Order of the Rising Sun with Gold and Silver Star in 1981.
- He died of pneumonia in August 2006, at the age of 96.
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