Background
Yo Takenaka was born on November 7, 1903 Hyogo, Japan.
要 竹中
Yo Takenaka was born on November 7, 1903 Hyogo, Japan.
He graduated from the Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, Tokyo Imperial University in 1927.
Yo Takenaka was appointed professor at Keijo (Seoul) University (1929). After the end of World War II, was part-time professor at his alma mater till he joined the National Research Institute on Heredity (1949). He was conferred a doctorate (1950) and made head of a department at the institute (1953).