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Toshikazu Wakatsuki

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Toshikazu Wakatsuki
若月俊一
Wakatsuki in 1953
Born	(1910-06-26)June 26, 1910 Japan
Died	August 22, 2006(2006-08-22) (aged 96) Saku Central Hospital
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]

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