A new banknote will be issued soon. As its portrait, Shibasaburo Kitasato is used on the 1,000 yen note. As a medical scientist, he is second only to Hideyo Noguchi on the current ¥1,000 note, but Shibasaburo Kitasato has a higher reputation as a scientist. However, in terms of popularity and American fever, Hideyo Noguchi may have been on the level of Shohei Otani. Noguchi was the signature professor at Rockefeller University at the time. Kitasato was of the generation that would write letters of recommendation for Noguchi, and was a world-renowned scholar who made great achievements in bacteriology, the frontline of medicine that dominated the world at that time. Today, it would be like doing regenerative medicine using cutting-edge methods in molecular biology. I was also given many biographies of Kitasato and Noguchi as a child, perhaps because my father was a doctor and wanted his children to become doctors. I read them honestly and became a teacher of medical doctor, but I think that was against my parents' intentions. Now, a drama needs a villain. Here, the villain is Aoyama Tanemichi, the university scholar who studied in the laboratory of Virchow who proposed cytopathology, which has come up before, but who studied under Belz in Japan and reached the top of the Japanese medical world. With his power, he rejected at word and deed the vitamin theory of Kanehiro Takagi with regard to beriberi, and in the field of bacteriology, he first expelled Shibasaburo Kitasato from the Institute of Infectious Diseases (Shirogane, Minato-ku) and made it the Institute of Medical Chemistry attached to the University of Tokyo. Furthermore, when Kitasato created Kitasato University, he also interfered with that, and his activities as an eight-sided villain are not possible for a person of ordinary power. I wonder if it could be made into a drama when the note is made. Also, speaking of the University of Tokyo's Faculty of Medicine, Mori Ogai, isn't he? Mori Ogai was apparently friends with Tanemichi. This was written later by his son Otto, a professor of anatomy. Well, he was a literary scholar, so it can't be helped.
Translated with DeepL and edited by the author.