Uchimura Yushi

In this Japanese name, the surname is Uchimura.
Uchimura Yushi
Uchimura in 1934
Born: November 12, 1897
Tokyo, Japan
Died: September 17, 1980(1980-09-17) (aged 82)
Member of the Japanese
Baseball Hall of Fame
Induction1983

Uchimura Yushi (12 November 1897 – 17 September 1980)[1] was a Japanese medical scientist and psychiatrist. He specialised in clinical psychiatry and neuropathology.[2] He is viewed as "one of the founders of Japanese psychiatry".[3]

He was born in Tokyo Prefecture to Uchimura Kanzo, a Christian theologian, and Uchimura Shizuko, Uchimura's fourth wife.[4][5]

Education and career

Uchimura attended Tokyo Imperial University from 1918 to 1923, studying medicine and playing for the university's baseball team.[2][6] After graduating Uchimura studied psychiatry in Germany,[7] followed by research at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute from 1925 to 1927 under Walther Spielmeyer.[8][9] His research focused on Ammon's horn sclerosis,[8] and led to an important paper published in 1928 authored by Uchimura detailing the vasculature of the hippocampus.[2][9]

In 1928, he became a professor at Hokkaido Imperial University and established the Department of Psychiatry and Neurology.[4][9][5] Inspired by the racial hygiene policies of Germany, Uchimura conducted field research among the indigenous Ainu people of Hokkaido, providing the basis for Japan's eugenics laws.[7][10][11] After the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Uchimura was one of the psychiatrists leading work into how radiation exposure affected the neuropathology of the brain.[12]

He was a founder of the journal Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences in 1933, and acted as one of its chief editors.[13]

In 1936, he became a professor in the faculty of medicine at the University of Tokyo, serving as dean of the faculty and the graduate school of medicine from 1953 to 1957.[14] After retiring he held the position of professor emeritus and was elected as a member of the Japan Academy in 1965.[15]

Baseball

In May 1962, Uchimura became the third commissioner of Nippon Professional Baseball.[6][16] Uchimura was inducted into the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame in 1983.[17][18]

References

  1. ^ Shimazono, Yasuo (1980). "Obituary". Folia Psychiatrica et Neurologica Japonica. 34: i–iv.
  2. ^ a b c Tayebi Meybodi, A.; Mignucci-Jiménez, G.; Xu, Y.; Preul, M. C. (2023). "Artery of Uchimura: origin and evolution of identification of the vascular supply to the hippocampus". Journal of Neurosurgery. 139 (4): 1128–1139. doi:10.3171/2023.2.JNS221963.
  3. ^ Zwigenberg 2014, p. 150.
  4. ^ a b "Psychiatry and Neurology". Hokkaido University Hospital.
  5. ^ a b Fukuzawa 2024, p. 282.
  6. ^ a b "Uchimura Yūshi (uchi mura yūshi)" 内村 祐之（うちむら ゆうし） [Yushi Uchimura]. Baseball Museum of Japan (in Japanese).
  7. ^ a b Liu, Alex Hsu-Chun (2 September 2024). "Taiwanese Psychiatrists' Cultural Inquiries in the 1950s: Toward a Prehistory of Transcultural Psychiatry and Psychological Anthropology on the Verges of the Japanese and American Empires". Taiwan Insight. University of Nottingham.
  8. ^ a b Boling, Warren W.; Ettl, Svenja; Sano, Keiji (3 May 2010). "Professor Uchimura, Ammon's Horn Sclerosis, and the German Influence on Japanese Neuroscience". Journal of the History of the Neurosciences. 19 (2): 182–194. doi:10.1080/09647040902720735.
  9. ^ a b c Akimoto, Haruo (April 2004). "What I learnt from studying epilepsy: Epileptology and myself". Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience. 58 (2): 101–109. doi:10.1111/j.1440-1819.2003.01223.x.
  10. ^ Fukuzawa 2024, pp. 282–284.
  11. ^ Zwigenberg 2014, pp. 150–151.
  12. ^ Zwigenberg 2014, pp. 151–152.
  13. ^ "History of PCN". Japanese Society of Psychiatry and Neurology. 11 March 2011.
  14. ^ "Chronological List of Deans". University of Tokyo.
  15. ^ "Deceased Members: U-W". Japan Academy.
  16. ^ Trumbull, Robert (5 February 1965). "Murakami Controversy Imperils U.S.-Japan Baseball Dealings". The New York Times.
  17. ^ "Dentōiri risuto" 殿堂入りリスト [Hall of Fame List]. Baseball Museum of Japan (in Japanese).
  18. ^ "Yushi Uchimura". The Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum. Retrieved January 10, 2026.

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