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Kaoru Shima
Kaoru Shima (Japanese –島薫)(1897–1977) was a Japanese physician. He was the first director of Shima Hospital, located at the hypocenter of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. He is known as the "father of the Hiroshima Surgical Society". Early life and education Kaoru Shima was born in Aki District at 1897. He graduated from Hiroshima Kokutaiji High School in 1917. Other graduates in the same year included Tadanori Nagayama and Shizuo Miyama. Shima entered Osaka Medical College in 1924. He then continued to study and train in Germany and the United States. Opening of Shima Hospital On August 31, 1933, Kaoru Shima opened Shima Hospital. The opening letter at the time stated that the hospital "operates a surgical hospital on the east side of Hiroshima Post Office." and "provides general surgical care, especially internal surgery." When building the hospital, Shima modeled it on the management policy of Mayo Clinic, which had impressed him during his time studying i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shima Hospital
is a Japanese hospital, now clinic, in Hiroshima, Japan. It was the exact location where the atomic bombing of Hiroshima took place on August 6, 1945. Shima Hospital is considered to be ground zero. In 1948, the hospital was rebuilt from the ground up by Dr. Kaoru Shima. The reconstructed Shima Surgery is still in operation to the present day under the name Shima Internist Hospital ( ''Shima naika iin'').Shima Naika Iin (Japanese) Specialities of the present Shima Hospital are surgery, orthopaedics, , and endoscopic treatment of the digestive organs. Adjacent to the Shima Hospital is a monument marking the |
Shima Hospital, Circa 1943
Shima may refer to: Places , Japan * Shima Province (志摩), one of the old provinces of Japan * Shima, Fukuoka (志摩), a former town in Fukuoka Prefecture * Shima, Mie (志摩), a city in Mie Prefecture ** Shima, Mie (town), a former town in Mie Prefecture that merged with its neighbors to become Shima City Shima (石马镇), China * Shima, Dazu County, in Dazu County, Chongqing * Shima, Meizhou, in Xingning City, Meizhou City, Guangdong * Shima, Yongfeng County, in Yongfeng County, Jiangxi * Shima, Zibo, in Boshan District, Zibo, Shandong * Shima, Mianyang, in Youxian District, Mianyang, Sichuan * Shima, Cangxi County, in Cangxi County, Sichuan Elsewhere *Shim'a, West Bank People * Shima (surname), a Japanese surname * Shima (given name), a given name * Queen Shima, the queen of Kalingga kingdom, , Central Java * Shima Iwashita () * ''Mr. Shima'' (stage name), the ringname for Japanese pro-wrestler Akio Sato (wrestler) Other uses * ''Shima'' (film), a 2007 film fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Medicine In Japan
The level of health in Japan is due to a number of factors including cultural habits, isolation, and a universal health care system. John Creighton Campbell, a professor at the University of Michigan and Tokyo University, told the New York Times in 2009 that Japanese people are the healthiest group on the planet. Japanese visit a doctor nearly 14 times a year, more than four times as often as Americans. Life expectancy in 2013 was 83.3 years - among the highest on the planet. A new measure of expected human capital calculated for 195 countries from 1990 to 2016 and defined for each birth cohort as the expected years lived from age 20 to 64 years and adjusted for educational attainment, learning or education quality, and functional health status was published by the Lancet in September 2018. Japan had the highest level of expected human capital among the 20 largest countries: 24.1 health, education, and learning-adjusted expected years lived between age 20 and 64 years. Chro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hiroshima Shinkin Bank
is the capital of Hiroshima Prefecture in Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 1,199,391. The gross domestic product (GDP) in Greater Hiroshima, Hiroshima Urban Employment Area, was US$61.3 billion as of 2010. Kazumi Matsui has been the city's mayor since April 2011. The Hiroshima metropolitan area is the second largest urban area in the Chugoku Region of Japan, following the Okayama metropolitan area. Hiroshima was founded in 1589 as a castle town on the Ōta River delta. Following the Meiji Restoration in 1868, Hiroshima rapidly transformed into a major urban center and industrial hub. In 1889, Hiroshima officially gained city status. The city was a center of military activities during the imperial era, playing significant roles such as in the First Sino-Japanese War, the Russo-Japanese War, and the two world wars. Hiroshima was the first military target of a nuclear weapon in history. This occurred on August 6, 1945, in the Pacific theatre of World War II, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shima Geka Hospital
Shima may refer to: Places , Japan * Shima Province (志摩), one of the old provinces of Japan * Shima, Fukuoka (志摩), a former town in Fukuoka Prefecture * Shima, Mie (志摩), a city in Mie Prefecture ** Shima, Mie (town), a former town in Mie Prefecture that merged with its neighbors to become Shima City Shima (石马镇), China * Shima, Dazu County, in Dazu County, Chongqing * Shima, Meizhou, in Xingning City, Meizhou City, Guangdong * Shima, Yongfeng County, in Yongfeng County, Jiangxi * Shima, Zibo, in Boshan District, Zibo, Shandong * Shima, Mianyang, in Youxian District, Mianyang, Sichuan * Shima, Cangxi County, in Cangxi County, Sichuan Elsewhere *Shim'a, West Bank People * Shima (surname), a Japanese surname * Shima (given name), a given name * Queen Shima, the queen of Kalingga kingdom, , Central Java * Shima Iwashita () * ''Mr. Shima'' (stage name), the ringname for Japanese pro-wrestler Akio Sato (wrestler) Other uses * ''Shima'' (film), a 2007 film fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pacific War
The Pacific War, sometimes called the Asia–Pacific War or the Pacific Theatre, was the Theater (warfare), theatre of World War II fought between the Empire of Japan and the Allies of World War II, Allies in East Asia, East and Southeast Asia, the Pacific Ocean, Pacific and Indian Oceans, and Oceania. It was geographically the largest theatre of the war, including the Pacific Ocean theater of World War II, Pacific Ocean theatre, the South West Pacific theater of World War II, South West Pacific theatre, the Second Sino-Japanese War, and the brief Soviet–Japanese War, and included some of the Largest naval battle in history, largest naval battles in history. War between Japan and the Republic of China (1912–1949), Republic of China had begun in 1937, with hostilities dating back to Japanese invasion of Manchuria, Japan's invasion of Manchuria in 1931, but the Pacific War is more widely accepted to have started in 1941, when the United States and United Kingdom entered the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fukuromachi Elementary School Peace Museum
The is a peace museum in Fukuromachi, Naka-ku, Hiroshima, Japan. The school was one of the closest schools to ground zero when the atomic bomb fell on August 6, 1945. They lost about 160 students and teachers and the building was heavily damaged. After a few days, the school became a first aid station, and its black burned wall became a message board to find missing people. The Peace Museum is the section of the school building with the basement of the former Municipal Fukuromachi Elementary School in Hiroshima. The school is keeping it as a relic of the atomic explosion, to foster peace, and to send their information to the world. History *Opened as a school in the Kaizen-ji, a temple of Pure Land Buddhism, on February 2, 1873. *Moved to Fukuromachi, the current place and was renamed "Sakuragawa School" in September 1876. *Renamed "Onchi Elementary School" in October 1884. *Renamed "Fukuromachi Jinjyo Elementary School" in August 1890. *Moved to Harimayamachi and renamed "Harim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kōzan, Hiroshima
was a town located in Sera District, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan. As of 2003, the town had an estimated population of 6,732 and a density of 67.46 persons per km2. The total area was 99.79 km2. On October 1, 2004, Kōzan, along with the town of Seranishi (also from Sera District), was merged into the expanded town of Sera and no longer exists as an independent municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality' .... External links Official website of Sera Dissolved municipalities of Hiroshima Prefecture Sera, Hiroshima {{Hiroshima-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hiroshima Surgical Society
is the capital of Hiroshima Prefecture in Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 1,199,391. The gross domestic product (GDP) in Greater Hiroshima, Hiroshima Urban Employment Area, was US$61.3 billion as of 2010. Kazumi Matsui has been the city's mayor since April 2011. The Hiroshima metropolitan area is the second largest urban area in the Chugoku Region of Japan, following the Okayama metropolitan area. Hiroshima was founded in 1589 as a castle town on the Ōta River delta. Following the Meiji Restoration in 1868, Hiroshima rapidly transformed into a major urban center and industrial hub. In 1889, Hiroshima officially gained city status. The city was a center of military activities during the imperial era, playing significant roles such as in the First Sino-Japanese War, the Russo-Japanese War, and the two world wars. Hiroshima was the first military target of a nuclear weapon in history. This occurred on August 6, 1945, in the Pacific theatre of World War II, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mayo Clinic
Mayo Clinic () is a Nonprofit organization, private American Academic health science centre, academic Medical centers in the United States, medical center focused on integrated health care, healthcare, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science, education, and research. It maintains three major campuses in Rochester, Minnesota; Jacksonville, Florida; and Phoenix, Arizona, Phoenix/Scottsdale, Arizona. Mayo Clinic employs over 7,300 physicians and scientists, along with another 66,000 administrative and allied health staff. The practice specializes in treating difficult cases through Health care#Tertiary care, tertiary care and Medical tourism#United States, destination medicine. It is home to the top-15 ranked Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine in addition to many of the highest regarded residency education programs in the United States. It spends over $660 million a year on research and has more than 3,000 full-time research personnel. William Worrall Mayo settled his family i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States
The United States of America (USA), also known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It is a federal republic of 50 U.S. state, states and a federal capital district, Washington, D.C. The 48 contiguous states border Canada to the north and Mexico to the south, with the semi-exclave of Alaska in the northwest and the archipelago of Hawaii in the Pacific Ocean. The United States asserts sovereignty over five Territories of the United States, major island territories and United States Minor Outlying Islands, various uninhabited islands in Oceania and the Caribbean. It is a megadiverse country, with the world's List of countries and dependencies by area, third-largest land area and List of countries and dependencies by population, third-largest population, exceeding 340 million. Its three Metropolitan statistical areas by population, largest metropolitan areas are New York metropolitan area, New York, Greater Los Angeles, Los Angel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Atomic Bombings Of Hiroshima And Nagasaki
On 6 and 9 August 1945, the United States detonated two atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, respectively, during World War II. The aerial bombings killed between 150,000 and 246,000 people, most of whom were civilians, and remain the only uses of Nuclear warfare, nuclear weapons in an armed conflict. Surrender of Japan, Japan announced its surrender to the Allies on 15 August, six days after the bombing of Nagasaki and the Soviet–Japanese War, Soviet Union's declaration of war against Japan and Soviet invasion of Manchuria, invasion of Manchuria. The Japanese government signed an Japanese Instrument of Surrender, instrument of surrender on 2 September, End of World War II in Asia, ending the war. In the final year of World War II, the Allies of World War II, Allies prepared for a costly Operation Downfall, invasion of the Japanese mainland. This undertaking was preceded by a Air raids on Japan, conventional bombing and firebombing campaign that de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
