Hashimoto Hakaru

HASHIMOTO Hakaru (橋本策1881-1934) was a Japanese medical scientist in Meiji era. He was bore in Isezakishi Mie prefecture, and graduated Kyushu University medical school. After it, he enter igaku-bu daiichi Geka ikyoku (the first surgeon bureau) and studied medical under the direction of Professor Miyake. In the Taishou first year, he announced a paper, Kojyosen rinpa-setu sho-teki henka ni kansuru kenkyu houkoku (The research report about the lymphonodi thyroidei androblastoma change) to the surgery magazine in Germany. Years later this paper evaluated by English and American researchers, and it symptom was recognized as independent illness. In American medical book it was named as Hahimoto-byo. And some years after he studied abroad at University of Göttingen (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen ) in Deutschland, and studied in England too, but the World War I was break out, he was forced to come back to Japan. In four years of Taisho, he came back to hometown Igamachi and became town doctor. In nine years of Showa, he fell ill with abdominal typhus and died in home. Becoming famous for Hashimoto-byo was late his dead, and in Japan it became famous in Showa 30s.

Hashimoto dōri
With praising his achievements, in Maidashi campus of Kyushu University, there is a way named as Hashimoto dōri.