History of thermal and environmental physiology in Japan: the heritage of Yas Kuno

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Table 1. Cooperative Research Projects on Thermal and Environmental Physiology in Japan

Years	Title	Organizer or Author
1946–1953	Physiological Response to Seasonal Variations	Y Kuno
1956–1958	Physiological Response to Cold Weather	Y Kuno
1956–1957	Disorders due to Cold Weather	H Yoshimura
1964–1965	Adaption to Climate	H Yoshimura
1966–1972	International Biological Program	H Yoshimura
1966–1972	Heat and Cold Tolerance	H Yoshimura
1966–1972	Adaptability of Ama (Diving women)	S Kobayashi
1969–1970	Circadian Rhythm	K Ogata
1973–1978	Central and Peripheral Adaptation to Temperature	K Ohara
1979–1981	Process of Adaptation to Heat and Cold	T Nakayama
1982–1984	Regulatory Mechanisms of Body Temperature	N Murakami
1986–1988	Heat Adaptation of the aged	T Ogawa
1988–1989	The Role of Bioactive Substances in Adaptation	T Hori
1990–1992	Analysis of Adaptation System	T Morimoto
1992–1994	Analysis of Factors to Modify Temperature Sensitivity	M Kosaka
1995–1998	Analysis of Sweating Mechanism during Heat Acclimatization	M Kosaka

Figure 1. Yas Kuno. The phot is from the book “Essential Probles in Climatic. Physiology: A Tribute to Prof. Kuno in Celebration of his Seventy Seventh Birthday.” Edited by Y. Yoshimura et al., Nonkodo Publishing Co., Kyoto, 1960.

Table 2. Japanese Thermal and Environmental physiologists

K Ogata Kumamoto Univ	S Itoh Hokkaido Univ	H Yoshimura Kyoto Pref Univ Med	K Ohara Nagoya City Univ	T Nakayama Osaka Univ	K Takagi Nagoya Univ	Y Toda Kobe Univ	M Iriki Yamanashi Univ
T Sasaki	T Hiroshige	Y Toda	M Kosaka	T Hori	T Ogawa	T Araki	M Shibata
N Murakami	A Kuroshima	T Morimoto	Y Isobe	M Shibata^*	J Sugenoya^*	Y Inoue	M Nagai
A Morimoto^*	H. Ohinata^*	H Nose^*	H Satho	T Kiyohara^*	T Nagasaka	N Kondo	S Nomoto
T Watanabe^*	Y Agishi	A Takamata^*	F Furuyama	S Aou^*	O Shido^*	M Shibasaki	M Hashimoto
	K Doi	S Nakai^*		T Nakajima^*	K Hirata^*
	K Honma	K Nagashima^*		K Kanosue	S Sakurada^*
	S Homma	S Hori		K Matsumura	M Kosaka
	K Moriya	K Shiraki		H Tanaka	T Matsumoto^*
		K Miki^*		K Niwa	M Sugawara^*
		F Yamazaki^*		Y Ohnuki	T Hori
		K Yagita		T Midorikawa	K Nakamura

^* Indicates a student of the name above

Figure 2. International Symposium on Human Adaptability and its Methodology. By H Yoshimura at Kyoto, 1965.

Figure 3. International Symposium on Thermoregulatory Mechanism. By T Nakayama at Osaka, 1982.

Table 3. Publications and the International Symposium on Thermal and Environmental Physiology

Years	Title	Organizer or Author
1934	The Physiology of Human Perspiration (Monograph)	Y Kuno
1956	Human Perspiration (Monograph)	Y Kuno
1960	Essential Problems in Climatic Physiology (Publication)	H Yoshimura, K Ogata, S Itoh
1965	Human Adaptability and its Methodology (Symposium)	H Yoshimura, JS Weiner
1972	Advances in Climatic Physiology ((Publication)	S Itho, K Ogata, H Yoshimura
1975	Physiolofy of Cold Adapted Man (Monograph)	S Itoh
1982	International Symposium on Thermoregulatory Mechanism (Symposium)	T Nakayama
1983	Hyperbaric Medicine and Underwater Physiology (Symposium)	K Shiraki, S Matsuoka
1984	International Symposium on Chronobiology (Symposium)	T Morimoto
1986	Man in Stressful Environment, Thermal and Work Physiology (Symposium )	K Shiraki, MK Yousef
1987	Man in Stressful Environment, Thermal and Work Physiology (Publication )	K Shiraki, MK Yousef
1992	International Symposium on Space Medicine in Nagoya 1992 (Symposium )	N Matsui
1995	Body Temperature and Metabolism (Symposium)	T Nagasaka, AS Milton
1997	Nagano Symposium on Sports Sciences (Symposium)	H Nose, ER Nadel, T Morimoto
1999	Exercise, Nutrition, and Environmental Stress (Symposium)	H Nose, CV Gisolfi, K Imaizumi
2000	Exercise, Nutrition, and Environmental Stress (Symposium)	H Nose, LL Sprit, K Imaizumi
2009	International Symposium on Physiology and Pharmacology of Temperature Regulation (Symposium)	O Shido

Figure 4. International Symposium on Physiology and Pharmacology of Temperature. Regulation. By O. Shido at Izumo, 2009.

Figure 5. Man in Stressful Environment, Thermal and Work Physiology. By K Shiraki at Kitakyushu, 1986.