Background
Yamada Yoshio was born in 1900 in Kyoto Prefecture, Japan.
幸男 山田
Yamada Yoshio was born in 1900 in Kyoto Prefecture, Japan.
In 1924, Yamada graduated from Tokyo University. As an overseas research student of Education Ministry, he studied classification botany in Europe and America.
In 1931, Yukio Yamada served as an assistant professor of Hokkaido University, and thereafter became a professor and director of Seaweed Research Institute of Hokkaido University.