Member Organizations

Japanese Ophthalmological Society

The first professor of Ophthalmology in Japan was Jujiro Komoto, who returned from Germany to the Tokyo Imperial University in 1889. In 1897, Takuji Suda, Yoshiakira Ohnishi and Genjiro Kawakami established the Japanese Ophthalmological Society (JOS) and invite Prof. Komoto to be the first president. The JOS is the second oldest medical society in Japan, only after the Japanese Association of Anatomists. Since then, a general meeting has been held annually. The JOS celebrated its centennial anniversary in 1996. Famous members of the JOS include Mikito Takayasu, the first to describe Taakyasu's disease; Chuta Oguchi (Oguchi's disease), Yoshizo Koyanagi (Vogt-Koyanagi disease), Einosuke Harada (Harada disease), Akira Urayama (acute retinal necrosis, Kirisawa-Urayama uveitis), as well as Tatsuji Inoue who first reported the relation between the visual field and its projection to the occipital lobe, and Shinobu Ishihara who developed the pseudo-isochoromatic plates for color blindness.


Prof. Akira Negi
President
Term: 6/2009 - 6/2011

Contact Information:

Professor Akira Negi
Japanese Ophthalmological Society
4-11-402, Sarugakucho 2-chome, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 101-8346, Japan
Phone: +81-3-3295-2360
Fax: +81-3-3293-9384
Email: info@po.nichigan.or.jp
Website: www.nichigan.or.jp