Background
Yamada Shin-ichiro was born in 1883 in Niigata Prefecture, Japan.
山田真一郎
Yamada Shin-ichiro was born in 1883 in Niigata Prefecture, Japan.
Yamada graduated from Hiroshima Higher Normal School in 1891. Finished special course at Law Department of Tokyo University in 1913.
After graduating from Hiroshima Higher Normal School, Yamada Shin-ichiro was briefly teacher at Ishikawa Normal School. In 1915, he was appointed assistant engineer of Contagious Disease Research Institute. He was promoted to engineer in 1919. Studied entomology in Europe and America since 1921 till 1923. Later saw service in Siam (1930). Was sent to China with Drs. Hidezo Sato and Kiyoshi Idato to investigate Kala-azar epidemic China, in the course of which he died of pneumonia at Tsinan.