Nihon Yakushi Gakkai

Nihon Yakushi Gakkai (The Japan Society for the History of Pharmacy / JSHP, (日本薬史学会) is a learned society, which aims to promote the history of pharmacy and to contribute to the development of Japanese pharmaceutical science.

The JSHP was founded in 1954 by the chemist Dr. Yasuhiko Asahina (朝比奈泰彦, 1880–1975)^[1], Professor emeritus at the University of Tokyo, who also became the first president.

Since 1966, the Society has published a biannual journal called Yakushigaku Zasshi (The Japanese Journal for History of Pharmacy). English abstracts are accessible from 2015 on.

External links

Website of the JSHP (Japanese / English)

Annotations

^ Y. Asahina was one of very few pioneers in the identification of chemical compounds produce by lichens. Vid. A. D. Kinghorn, H. Falk, J. Kobayashi (ed.), Progress in the Chemistry of Organic Natural Products. Springer, 2015, pp. 466f.

[1] Y. Asahina was one of very few pioneers in the identification of chemical compounds produce by lichens. Vid. A. D. Kinghorn, H. Falk, J. Kobayashi (ed.), Progress in the Chemistry of Organic Natural Products. Springer, 2015, pp. 466f.

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