Koh Yasuda | |
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Born | 1907 |
Died | 1943 |
Nationality | Japanese |
Occupation | Physician (Ophthalmologist) |
Known for | Appointed the first director of a leper hospital, now Amami Wakoen Sanatorium, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan and he was drafted and died in war before starting the sanatorium |
Koh Yasuda (保田 耕, Yasuda Kō, 1907 - September 7, 1943) or Kō Yasuda was a Japanese ophthalmologist who became the first director of Amami Wakoen Sanatorium, a leprosy sanatorium in Amami Ōshima, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan. He was drafted into military service and died in China in 1943.