Kikuo Arakawa

He is from Sueyoshi Town (now Soo City), Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan.^[3] He finished Kagoshima Prefectural Daini-Kagoshima Middle School (now Kagoshima Prefectural Konan High School)^[4] and Seventh Higher School Zoshikan (now Kagoshima University).^[3][4] He was in the same grade with Isamu Akasaki at the middle school and the higher school.^[5]

He graduated from Kyushu University School of Medicine in March 1953 and studied basic medical science at the graduate school.^[4] After the graduate school, he worked as an assistant at the Third Department of Internal Medicine of Kyushu University from 1957^[4] and obtained a doctorate in medicine in January 1958.^[6]

He had been to America to study under Irvine Page at the Cleveland Clinic from July 1958 to August 1961.^[4]

He became an Associate Professor for cardiovascular medicine at Kyushu University in 1964.^[4] He made studies of angiotensin receiving the grant of the American National Institutes of Health^[4] and succeeded in isolation and structure determination of a human angiotensin for the first time in the world in 1966.^[3][4][7]

After he became a Professor for cardiovascular medicine at Fukuoka University Faculty of Medicine in 1973, he made studies of exercise therapy for hypertension.^[4] His work contributed to the proof of the effectiveness of exercise therapy for hypertension.^[7] He worked as a Professor at Fukuoka University to 2000 and was given the title of Professor Emeritus.^[3][4]

He has been a member of the International Society of Hypertension since its inception in 1966.^[7] He served as the 12th President of the International Society of Hypertension from 1994 to 1996.^[3][4][8]

He also served as the President of the Japanese Association of Hypertension^[4][7][9] and became an honorary member of the Japanese Society of Hypertension.^[10][11]

He received many awards^[4] including the World Hypertension League Award for 2014^[9][10] and the International Society of Hypertension Distinguished Fellow Award for 2016.^[11][12]