Annerose Akaike

Annerose Akaike (2010)

Annerose Akaike (* 1939 in Stargard in Pomerania as Annerose Billich ; † 2011 in Matsumoto ) was a German-Japanese doctor and translator of works from Japanese. She was the first European to be licensed as a doctor in Japan.

Life

Annerose Billich was born as the daughter of a doctor on the grandparents' estate in Stargard. With the advance of the Soviet army in 1945, her family moved to Lübeck .

Like two other of her four siblings, Annerose Akaike followed her father's professional career. She studied medicine, among others in Kiel, Berlin and Freiburg. In Kiel she met her fellow student and future husband Akira Akaike ( Japanese 赤 池 陽 ; 1932–1986). 1969 Anne Rose Akaike came with her husband, the radiologist at a Tokyo university hospital was and two young children after Tokyo , where the third common child was born.

In order to continue working as a doctor in Japan, Akaike had to take the Japanese medical state examination, which she succeeded and made her the first ever approved European doctor in Japan.

In 1979, at the age of 40, Annerose Akaike set up her own clinic in the OAG house in Tokyo, where she practiced for sixteen years. She also became a school doctor at the German School Tokyo Yokohama (DSTY).

After the death of her husband in 1986, she moved to the Japanese coastal town of Zushi not far from Tokyo.

Ten years later, and via a few detours, Akaike ended up in the city of Chiang Mai in northern Thailand , where she treated HIV / AIDS patients at a state clinic using a combination of spiritual healing methods and conventional medicine. Together with Thai doctors she treated 300 outpatients and 30 inpatients at the same time. While working in the clinic, she received the honorary title Amu ("mother"). Even after returning to Japan a few years later, Akaike supported the Thai organization "Women against AIDS" (WAA).

Back in Japan, she met the Japanese poet and translator, professor of English-American literature at the universities in Matsumoto and Yokohama, Shōzō Kajima . She transferred one of his books, of which more than 400,000 copies had been sold in Japan, under the title Motomenai - without request into German. The couple lived together in Matsumoto , in the Japanese prefecture of Nagano , until Annerose's death . Upon request, she received a Buddhist burial. Her urn was buried in the Zen temple Jōjū-in.

Translations

• Tetsuzō Wada: Eternity. My only consciousness teaching (= Dharma pearls. Vol. 1). Translated from Japanese by Annerose Akaike. Iudicium, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-89129-750-5 (poetry from Buddhism).
• Shōzō Kajima: Motomenai - without desire. Translated from Japanese by Annerose Akaike. Ryvellus, Saarbrücken 2012, ISBN 978-3-89060-602-6 (aphorisms).

Web link

• Literature by and about Annerose Akaike in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Akaike, Dr. Amu Annerose, doctor 赤 池 ・ ア ム ・ ア ネ ロ ー ゼ, b. Billich (1939–2011), German-Japanese culture of remembrance ( Memento from October 22, 2013 in the Internet Archive )