07-19-2017, 05:49 AM
Japan had its own Greatest Generation. It's unfortunate for Japan and the Japanese that their country ended up on the wrong side of history, but here's a physician who did some things right in some of the worst conditions in which to do medicine:
Shigeaki Hinohara (日野原 重明) (Shigeaki Hinohara; 4 October 1911 – 18 July 2017) was a Japanese physician. In 1941 he began his long working association with St. Luke's International Hospital in central Tokyo and worked as a medical doctor throughout the wartime firebombing of the city. From 1990 he served as the hospital's honorary director. He was also Sophia University's Grief Care Institute director emeritus. He was honorary chairman of the Foundation Sasakawa Memorial Health Cooperation. Hinohara is credited with establishing and popularizing Japan's practice of annual medical checkups.
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Hinohara became an honorary member of the [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Japanese_Cardiovascular_Society&action=edit&redlink=1]Japanese Cardiovascular Society and received the Second Prize and the Order of Culture. He was honored by Kyoto Imperial University, Thomas Jefferson University and by McMaster University by receiving an honorary doctorate.
Hinohara died on 18 July 2017 in Tokyo at the age of 105.[3][4]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shigeaki_Hinohara
Comment: The Japanese have one of the world's highest life expectancies.
Shigeaki Hinohara (日野原 重明) (Shigeaki Hinohara; 4 October 1911 – 18 July 2017) was a Japanese physician. In 1941 he began his long working association with St. Luke's International Hospital in central Tokyo and worked as a medical doctor throughout the wartime firebombing of the city. From 1990 he served as the hospital's honorary director. He was also Sophia University's Grief Care Institute director emeritus. He was honorary chairman of the Foundation Sasakawa Memorial Health Cooperation. Hinohara is credited with establishing and popularizing Japan's practice of annual medical checkups.
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Hinohara became an honorary member of the [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Japanese_Cardiovascular_Society&action=edit&redlink=1]Japanese Cardiovascular Society and received the Second Prize and the Order of Culture. He was honored by Kyoto Imperial University, Thomas Jefferson University and by McMaster University by receiving an honorary doctorate.
Hinohara died on 18 July 2017 in Tokyo at the age of 105.[3][4]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shigeaki_Hinohara
Comment: The Japanese have one of the world's highest life expectancies.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.