Toshikazu Wakatsuki
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BornJune 26, 1910
Japan
DiedAugust 22, 2006 (aged 96)
SpouseTsugie Takahashi
Children2
Toshikazu Wakatsuki | |
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若月俊一 | |
 Wakatsuki in 1953 | |
| Born | June 26, 1910 Japan |
| Died | August 22, 2006 (aged 96) |
| Spouse | Tsugie Takahashi |
| Children | 2 |
Toshikazu Wakatsuki (若月俊一, Wakatsuki Toshikazu, June 26, 1910 – August, 2006) 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.[1] 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.[citation needed] He died of pneumonia in August 2006, at the age of 96.[3]
