title: [Japanese pharmaceutical professors of a medical university and colleges in colonial Korea (1916-1945)].
abstract: This study investigates the 14 Japanese pharmaceutical professors who worked in colonial Korea from 1916 to 1945. Of these professors, four worked at Keijyo Imperial University, five worked at Keijyo Medical College, two worked at Taikyu Medical College and two worked at Heijyo Medical College. Nine were physicians and four were pharmacists. Four persons graduated from Tokyo Imperial University, one from Kyoto Imperial University, two from Kumamoto Medical College, one from Toyama Pharmaceutical College, one from Nagasaki Medical College, one from Okayama Medical College and one unknown. A medical degree was obtained by 9 of 14 professors (69.2%), a high rate compared to the same grade of medical institution in Japan at that time. Regarding the positions of the professors in Japan after the end of the Second World War in 1945, four obtained professor positions at universities, three were clinical doctors, one worked for a pharmaceutical company, one was a researcher at an institute, one died and three are unknown.
authors.affiliation: Labors' Health Association in Chugoku, 5-14-2 Hikino-cho, Fukuyama, Hiroshima 721-0942.
authors.forename: Sumio
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ishida
mesh_terms: D005178:Faculty / Q000266:history*; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan; D007723:Korea; D008297:Male