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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... 

Over 1200 years ago, Asian cooks began adding a type of seaweed found in the Pacific Ocean to their soup stocks. They had discovered that foods cooked in this seaweed broth simply tasted better. What these chefs did not know was that the broth s unique flavour enhancement quality was due to the high levels of naturally occurring glutamate in the seaweed. Finally, in 1908, the link between glutamate and the seaweed was discovered. Professor Kikunae Ikeda, at Tokyo Imperial University, isolated MSG from the seaweed and unlocked the secret of the plant s flavourenhancing properties. 

Another very early trial of the education of chemical engineering by T. Nishikawa was very influential to those who were interested in chemical engineering. After returning from industry to Tokyo Imperial University as an Assistant Professor, Nishikawa started a course in Chemical Plant Design (or Chemical Machinery ) ca. 1910. One year later he moved to Kyushu University, but the influence of his course was believed to be very great. 

Dr. Warren had asked me to call on Dr. Masao Tsuzuki at Tokyo Imperial University to extend his personal good wishes. I had no idea who this man might be. And I was concerned that my Japanese would be inadequate. But I persevered, and we had a warm and friendly meeting. By some miracle, the university had been spared in the extensive bombing of Tokyo, which included firebombings that killed an estimated 88,000 people. 

Alfred Werner s first paper on the coordination theory (7) was published in 1893 and was introduced to Japan in an abridged form in 1897 by Riko Majima (1874-1962), who was a postgraduate student in the College of Science, Tokyo Imperial University. Majima, who later became the father of organic chemistry in Japan, introduced this paper and three subsequent papers of Werner s in the Tokyo Kagaku Kaishi (Journal of the Tokyo Chemical Society) under the title of "Theory of Molecular Compounds" (2). If read today, Majima s articles are difficult to understand even for us who know the coordination theory, indicating that Werner s ideas were not easily understandable at that time. 

Shibata s research field was further extended to the study of the catalytic property of cobalt complexes. In 1918 he and his elder brother, Keita Shibata (1877-1949), professor of phytochemistry and plant physiology at Tokyo Imperial University, found that myricetin, a kind of fiavonol, is easily oxidized in solution by cobalt complexes at room temperature, and they published the results in 1920 31). 

Nomura, Iwamoto, Science Beports Tokyo Imperial Umvereity, 1928, 17, 973 1929,18,661. 

The efficacy of barley-blended rice against beriberi was known to the chief medical officers of many army divisions. However, their request to adopt barley-blended rice as army provision was neglected by Rintaro (Ogai) Mori, a famous novelist and the head of the Second Army Medical Corps, Tadanori Ishiguro, a former director already retired but still influential on the Medical Department of the Japanese Army, and Tanemichi Aoyama, Professor of Tokyo Imperial University. 

Mabuti, S. (1937) On a Permian brachiopods Gemmelaroia (Gemmelaroiella) ozawai subgen. et sp. nov. from Japan. Proceedings of the Tokyo Imperial Academy, 13,16-19. 

Ten years older than Lowdin, Kotani by 1951 had already a successful career as a theoretical and mathematical physicist behind him. He obtained his B.Sc. degree in physics in 1929 at the Tokyo Imperial University, became a lecturer at the Faculty of Engineering in the same university, and 3 years later was appointed associate professor... 

Yoshida Hikorokuro (1859-1929) published a two-volume chemistry textbook for secondary schools, normal schools (teachers colleges), and liberal arts colleges in 1893, soon after the publication of Takamatsu s textbook. Yoshida studied chemistry under Atkinson in the Department of Chemistry at Tokyo University and graduated in 1880. After working in the Geological Survey of the Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce as an analytical chemist until 1886, he became associate professor of the College of Science at Tokyo Imperial University in 1886, professor... 

After the establishment of Kyoto Imperial University as the second imperial university in 1897, the Imperial University in Tokyo was renamed Tokyo Imperial University. 

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