[Achievements in anatomy education by Dr. Otto Mori in Taiwan].

Abstract

My grandfather, Otto Mori (1980-1967) was one of the founders of anatomy education in Japan from 1940s to 1960s. While he was the director of Department of Medicine of Taipei Imperial University, he made efforts to establish the medical and anatomical education in Taiwan. Introduction of the achievement of anatomy education in Taiwan is important to know the history of anatomy education in Japan. I visited Taiwan National University (former Taipei Imperial University) in 2005, which was 60 years after Otto Mori started his life as a professor in Taiwan, and 110 years after Rintaro (Ogai) Mori, my great-grandfather stayed shortly in Taiwan after Japan-China War. After the World War II, there has been very few opportunity of communication between anatomy labs of Taiwan and Japan. In Taiwan, more than 70 years ago, Japanese style anatomy education was established, however, after the WW II, they learned education style from the U.S. Chiba University exchange "sister universities" agreement between National Taiwan University in 2007, and started exchange communication regarding anatomy education and scientific research. It is meaningful to learn from excellent education system of old Japan when we communicate with National Taiwan University.