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D. N. A. Holwerda, Doctoral Dissertation, Imperial University Leydon, 1970. 

On his return home in 1911, Honda was appointed professor of physies at the new Tohoku Imperial University in Sendai, in the north of Japan this institution had been established only in 1906, when the finance minister twisted the arm of an industrialist who had made himself unpopular because of pollution eaused by his copper mines and extracted the necessary funds to build the new university. A provisional institute of physical and chemical research was initiated in 1916, divided into a part devoted to novel plastics and another to metals. This proved to be Honda s lifetime domain he assembled a lively team of young physicists and chemists. In the same year, Honda invented a high-cobalt steel also containing tungsten and chromium, which had by far the highest coercivity of any permanent-magnet material then known. He called it KS steel, for K. Sumitomo, one of his sponsors, and it made Honda famous. 

The prodigious research output of the Institute often first saw the light of day in the Science Reports of the Tohoku Imperial University, and its successors in my younger days, I received these regularly and found them rivetting reading. 

Kemchi Fukui (1918-1998) was born in Nara Prelecture. Japan, and received a Ph.D. in 1948 from Kyoto Imperial University. He remained at Kyoto University as professor of chemistry until 1982 and then became piesident of... 

The Woodward-Hoffmann rules for pericyclic reactions require an analysis of all reactant and product molecular orbitals, but Kenichi Fukui at Kyoto Imperial University in Japan introduced a simplified version. According to Fukui, we need to consider only two molecular orbitals, called the frontier orbitals. These frontier orbitals are the highest occupied molecular orbital (HOMO) and the lowest unoccupied molecular orbital (LUMO). In ground-state 1,3,5-hexa-triene, for example, 1//3 is the HOMO and excited-stale 1,3,5-hexatriene, however, 5 is the LUMO. 

Soon after the end of Tokugawa Period Edo Era), the new government under Mei/ i Emperor started in 1867. In the Meiji Era, Japanese Government intended to follow up the modem European culture, especially European science and technology, and established The Imperial University of Tokyo having Faculties of Law, Science, and Literature in 1868. This is the first university of Japan. 

Before the establishment of the Imperial University of Tokyo, Japan had some private schools. Kaisei School, the former Imperial University of Tokyo, is one of them. Medical treatments have been already made by some people with the help of textbooks brought by Dutch who came to Nagasaki, which was the center of medical sciences of Japan in the latter half of the 19th century. 

Joji Sakurai (1858-1939) is one of the leaders of science at the beginning of the Modernization period of Japan. He was selected as one of the students send abroad by the Japanese Government at the second selection and went to London in 1878 to study chemistry under the supervision of A. W. Williamson (1824-1904). When he returned to Japan in 1881, he was immediately appointed a lecturer and soon promoted to a professor of the Imperial University of Tokyo. 

Kikunae Ikeda (1864-1936) was interested in physical chemistry, a new and rapidly progressing field of chemistry in Europe, and studied reaction kinetics and catalytic reactions in the laboratory of F. W. Ostwald (1853-1932) of the University of Leipzig, Germany, from 1899 to 1901. He also stayed in London for a half a year at the end of his stay in Europe. He became the professor of physical chemistry of the Imperial University of Tokyo. 

As one of the results of the promotion policy of education for science and technology, Japanese Government established additional Imperial Universities in various places in Japan after Tokyo. They are Kyoto (Kyoto Imperial University, it took about 20 years after the estabhshment of the Imperial University of Tokyo), Sendai (Tohoku Imperial University), Sapporo in Hokkaido (Imperial University of Hokkaido), Fukuoka (Imperial University of Kyushu), Osaka and Nagoya. Owing to the promotion pohcy a relatively large amoimt of budget was provided to these imiversities and they played the role as centers of scientific researches of Japan. 

The first president of the Society for Agricultural Chemistry of Japan Founder of phytological physiology and the faculty of pharmacy of the Imperial University of Tokyo... 

During 1935-1945 Professor Tani of Kyushu Imperial University, Japan, surveyed toxicity of various tissues from 19 species of pufferfish inhabiting the surrounding waters of the northern Kyushu Island (Table I) (j, ). He published a book "Toxicological Studies on Japanese Pufferfishes", which is even recently cited by many researchers dealing with TTX. 

In 1934 the Japanese physicist Hideki Yukawa postulated the existence of yet another force particle, which he called the meson. In 1932 Yukawa began his academic career with an appointment at Osaka Imperial University, which had been founded the previous year. The discovery of the neutron and the publication of Fermi s theory started him thinking about the nature of the force that bound protons and neutrons together in an atomic nucleus. He realized that, though... 

Frank Fanning Jewett, 1844-1926. Research assistant at Harvard University under Woleott Gibbs. Professor of chemistry at the Imperial University of Japan Professor of chemistry and mineralogy at Oberlin College. His account of Wohler s researches on aluminum inspired Charles M. Hall to search for a commercial process for preparing the metal. 

Memoirs of the College of Science, Kyoto Imperial University. 

Kenichi Fukui, bom Nara, Japan, 1918. Ph.D. Kyoto Imperial University 1948, Professor Kyoto Imperial University 1951. Nobel Prize 1981. Died 1998. 

Shikata, Masuzo — (Aug. 10,1895, Tokyo, Japan - May 8, 1964, Kyoto, Japan) In 1920 Shikata graduated from the Department of Agricultural Chemistry of the Imperial University of Tokyo. In 1922 he went to Europe, and the next year joined - Heyrovsky, J. in Prague, Czechoslovakia. In 1924 Heyrovsky and Shikata [i] developed the first - polarograph - the first automatic instrument to record current-potential dependencies of a - dropping mercury electrode. For this invention, Heyrovsky was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1959. In 1924 Shikata was appointed Professor of the Imperial University of Kyoto (presently Kyoto University). In 1942 he was appointed Vice-President of the Research Institute of... 

The survey by Professor Nakamura was carried out with the cooperation of 36 students who were then enrolled in the Faculty of Physics, Tokyo Imperial University. Among the students were found the names of Kiyo-o Wadachi (now Chairman of the Central Pollution Commission, and Chairman of Fire Prevention Commission) and Kaneichi Nakata (former Chairman of Fire Prevention Commission), both actively working at the forefront of earthquake disaster prevention even today 131. ... 

Tokyo Imperial University (Medical Chemistry, Applied Chemistry, and Drug Chemistry, Faculty of Agriculture)... 

Tokyo Imperial University, Fuculty of Medical Science (four... 

T. Takamine, N. Kokubu, Memoirs of the College of Science (Kyoto Imperial University), 3, 271 (1919). 

J. Coll. ScL Imp. Univ. Japan. Journal of the College of Science, Imperial University of Tokyo, Tokyo merged (1925) into Journal of the Faculty of Science, Imperial University of Tokyo. 

Mem. Coll. Eng. Kyushu Imp. Univ. Memoirs of the College of Engineering, Kyushu Imperial University, Fukuoka, Japan. 

ScL Rep. Tohoku Imp. Univ. Science Reports of the Tdhoku Imperial University, Tokyo. 

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