Shigeaki Hinohara
1911
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2017
photo credits: Wikimedia Commons
country of citizenship: Japan
languages spoken, written or signed: Japanese
educated at: Kyoto University, Emory University School of Medicine
award received: Order of Culture, Person of Cultural Merit
Shigeaki Hinohara (日野原 重明, Hinohara Shigeaki, 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. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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