Masataka Murata, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Japanese physician
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Place of Birth: Kōchi Prefecture, Japan
About Masataka Murata
- Masataka Murata (?? ??, Murata Masataka, October 5, 1884 – December 20, 1974) was a Japanese physician.
- He invented a Murata's method for the serodiagnosis of syphilis, and studied leprosy.
- He worked at the Osaka Prefectural Sotojima Sanatorium and was the director between 1926 and 1933.
- He treated leprosy patients as respectable persons.
- After the Sotojima Incident, in which communists were against religious societies, he resigned as the director of the sanatorium.
- Later, he personally studied leprosy at his house, and died in 1974.
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