Kurokawa Toshio

Kurokawa Toshio ( Japanese 黒 川 利 雄 ; born January 15, 1897 in Mikasa ( Hokkaidō Prefecture ); died February 21, 1988 ) was a Japanese internist.

Live and act

Kurokawa Toshio graduated from the medical faculty of Tōhoku University in 1922 . He dealt with the diseases of the digestive organs. In 1927 he obtained his doctorate, in 1930 he stayed at the University of Vienna and continued his education in X-ray technology. In 1941 he became a professor at his alma mater, in 1948 dean of the medical faculty, and in 1957 president.

In 1956 Kurokawa published together with Nishiyama Shōji (西山 正治; 1922–1993) "Camera for the indirect registration of X-rays" (黒 川 ・ 西山 式 レ 線 間接 狙 撃 撮 影 機, Kurokawa / Nishiyama rentogen-sen kansetsu sogeki satsuei-ki.) And equipped with it Vehicles and carried out mass examinations for gastric cancer disease with the method called "Miyagi Method" after the local prefecture. The method was later supplemented by the optical probe.

In 1968 Kurokawa was honored as a person with special cultural merits and was awarded the Order of Culture in the same year . In 1986 he became the first and so far only non-graduate of the University of Tōkyō, President of the Academy of Sciences .

Further publications are

• "X-ray examinations of the digestive system" (消化管 の レ ン ト ゲ ン 診断, Shōkakan no rentogen shindan), 1936
• "Diagnosis of gastric and duodenal ulcers" (胃 お よ び 十二指腸潰瘍 の 診断, I oyobi jūnishichō-kaiyō no shindan), 1942

literature

• S. Noma (Ed.): Kurokawa Toshio . In: Japan. An Illustrated Encyclopedia. Kodansha, 1993. ISBN 4-06-205938-X , p. 847.

Web links

• Biographies Kurokawa Toshio in the Kotobank, Japanese

Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . Thus Kurokawa is the family name, Toshio the first name.