A Japanese Commission

Six of the foremost medical scientists of Japan arrived in the United States to make a two months' first-hand study of American and Canadian medical and public health institutions and methods. They are:

Dr. Kinnosuke Miura, professor of internal medicine in the Imperial University of Tokyo, physician to the Emperor, outstanding leader of the Japanese medical profession.

Dr. Mataro Nagayo, director of the Government Institute for Infectious Diseases, professor of pathology in the Imperial University of Tokyo.

Baron Yoshihiro Takagi, chief surgeon and professor of surgery in the Tokyo Charity Hospital and Medical College.

Dr. Keinosuke Miyairi, parasitologist, dean of the medical college of the Imperial University of Kyushu.

Dr. Akira Fujinami, professor of pathology in the Imperial University of Kyoto.

Dr. Sahachiro Hata, professor of medicine in Keio University and co-discoverer with Ehrlich of salvarsan ("606").

As guests of the Rockefeller Foundation, these physicians will visit Philadelphia, New York, Baltimore, Washington, Cleveland, Boston, New Haven, Montreal, Toronto, Albany, Saranac Lake, Chicago, Rochester (Minn.), St. Louis, and other medical centers, according to their special interests.

This is the first medical commission sent by Japan to any country. The training of Japanese physicians has hitherto been almost exclusively German.