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Mataro Nagayo
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After graduating from Tokyo University’s Medical Department (1904), he studied in Germany.
Career
Returned to Japan (1910) and became a professor at his alma mater. Was appointed director of the Infectious Disease Research Institute. He was noted for his research in tsutsugamusJii disease, a rickettsial fever endemic in Japan, and cancer. Became vice-president of the Far East Tropical Medicine Association (1921) and then dean of the Medical Department of Tokyo Limversity. Was appointed 12th president of that university (1934). He was a member of the Imperial Academy.
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Son of Sensai, a physician.
Education
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1904