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[Dr. Toraakira Okuyama, a higher medical officer of the Japanese navy in Meiji era]. 1995

Y Fukase

Toraakira Okuyama was born in Nagasaki in 1840. His father, Genchu Okuyama, was the Dutch learning doctor of the Kaminoyama clan and one of the founders of the Otamagaike Vaccination Center. During Tokugawa period T. Okkuyama, who had a title "Gensei", was appointed as medical officer in the infantry regiments in 1863 and then was promoted to vice-director. He was appointed as doctor of the national hospital (Daibyoin) and then as assistant professor in the new epoch of Meiji was transferred to become a naval medical officer in 1871. He was advanced to Dai-ikan, the highest rank of medical officer in the Japanese navy. He worked for the establishment of naval medical systematization and gave students education at the naval medical school (Kaigun-Guni-Ryo-Gakusha) with William Anderson and Edwin Wheeler. He resigned his post in 1876 and died in 1926, until which time he continued the life of a practitioner.

UI	MeSH Term	Description	Entries
D007564	Japan	A country in eastern Asia, island chain between the North Pacific Ocean and the Sea of Japan, east of the Korean Peninsula. The capital is Tokyo.	Bonin Islands
D009326	Naval Medicine	The practice of medicine concerned with conditions affecting the health of individuals associated with the marine environment.	Nautical Medicine,Medicine, Nautical,Medicine, Naval
D049672	History, 19th Century	Time period from 1801 through 1900 of the common era.	19th Century History,19th Cent. History (Medicine),19th Cent. History of Medicine,19th Cent. Medicine,Historical Events, 19th Century,History of Medicine, 19th Cent.,History, Nineteenth Century,Medical History, 19th Cent.,Medicine, 19th Cent.,19th Cent. Histories (Medicine),19th Century Histories,Cent. Histories, 19th (Medicine),Cent. History, 19th (Medicine),Century Histories, 19th,Century Histories, Nineteenth,Century History, 19th,Century History, Nineteenth,Histories, 19th Cent. (Medicine),Histories, 19th Century,Histories, Nineteenth Century,History, 19th Cent. (Medicine),Nineteenth Century Histories,Nineteenth Century History
D049673	History, 20th Century	Time period from 1901 through 2000 of the common era.	20th Century History,20th Cent. History (Medicine),20th Cent. History of Medicine,20th Cent. Medicine,Historical Events, 20th Century,History of Medicine, 20th Cent.,History, Twentieth Century,Medical History, 20th Cent.,Medicine, 20th Cent.,20th Cent. Histories (Medicine),20th Century Histories,Cent. Histories, 20th (Medicine),Cent. History, 20th (Medicine),Century Histories, 20th,Century Histories, Twentieth,Century History, 20th,Century History, Twentieth,Histories, 20th Cent. (Medicine),Histories, 20th Century,Histories, Twentieth Century,History, 20th Cent. (Medicine),Twentieth Century Histories,Twentieth Century History