Toshikazu Wakatsuki | |
Native Name: | 若月俊一 |
Native Name Lang: | jp |
Birth Date: | 26 June 1910 |
Birth Place: | Japan |
Death Place: | Saku Central Hospital |
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Spouse: | Tsugie Takahashi |
Children: | 2 |
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.[1] He founded the Japanese Association of Rural Medicine.[2] Wakatsuki was awarded the 1976 Ramon Magsaysay Award for his contributions to rural medicine,[1] 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.[3]