A centenarian Japanese doctor who saw patients until just months before his death and helped set up the medical systems that have made Japan one of the world’s longest-lived nations died on Tuesday at the age of 105. Born in 1911, a year before the Titanic…
A centenarian Japanese doctor who saw patients until just months before his death and helped set up the medical systems that have made Japan one of the world’s longest-lived nations died on Tuesday at the age of 105.
Born in 1911, a year before the Titanic sank, Shigeaki Hinohara was for decades the director and public face of St. Luke’s International Hospital in Tokyo, so well known as an»international» hospital that it treated luminaries such as Paul McCartney when he fell ill during a 2014 Japanese tour.
He was working at St Luke’s as early as 1945, when he treated victims of the World War Two Tokyo firebombing that left vast swathes of the city in ruins.
