Background
Masaru Nagao was born in 1887, in Kagawa, Japan.
Masaru Nagao was born in 1887, in Kagawa, Japan.
Graduated from Medical Department of Tokyo University (1913) and later studied at Pennsylvania University, U.S.A.
Served successively as assistant of Dental Hospital of Education Ministry, member of Committee for National Examination of Dentists, medical officer at Jiiryo (Bureau of Court Physicians) and member of School Commissioners' Committee of Education Ministry. Went to Europe and America as overseas research student of Education Ministry in 1928. Became professor of Tokyo Koto Shika Igaku Gakko (Tokyo Higher School of Dentistry) in 1928 and president of Tokyo Ika Shika Daigaku (Tokyo University of Meaicme and Dentistry) (since 1945).