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KAZIMIERZ KOCHMAN
PROFESSOR HAJIME ISHIDA
GREAT JAPANESE SCIENTIST, INDEFATIGABLY EXPLORER AND PRECEPTOR – CORDIAL FRIEND
OF POLAND
Professor Hajime Ishida, Head of the Department of Pharmacology, Tokushi-ma University in Japan, wrote me a letter dated on 26 June 1991, in which he in-vited me to Japan for the period of 14 days to give the lectures and for discussion of scientific problems: It is a great pleasure to send you this official notification of
your award as a visiting professor in Visiting Program of Fuji – Otsuka International Exchange Program in the University of Tokushima. You can get your scholarship and travel fee from our University. We welcome you with open arms. We arrange with all our might for you to be able to study physiology in our department and open your lecture and seminar to our students.
My first scientific visit in Japan began, soon after this invitation, during the days 17–31 October 1991 and brought the excellent results, for me personally and for my further scientific collaboration with Japan.
I delivered two 2-hours lectures at the Tokushima University; first one was de-livered to all students and young scientists of the University (about 800 persons) and the second one to smaller audience. After first lecture, I was invited by the Magnificence Rector of the University, Professor Takeda, for discussion in his of-fice. He sent a limousine with the driver. I also delivered the lectures in Osaka and Tokyo. I also visited Kyoto, Hiroshima and Himeji for touristic purposes.
Tokushima is a very beautiful Japanese city, located on the Shikoku island. In 646 CE, by the decision of Yamato Court, received the name of Awa, which was held till the second half of the 19th century. Then the name of the city was changed
again and took the present form of Tokushima.
University in Tokushima was created on 31 May 1949, as National University, which is under the law regulating the Status of National Schools. This status was reforming previous educational system in Japan, and unified together Normal School in Tokushima, College Medical and College of Engineering in Tokushima. From the beginning of its existence, University consisted of 3 faculties, then was growing several times and then the School of Dentistry and Faculty of Pharma-ceutical Sciences was created. The Head of the Chair of Pharmacology in the Uni-versity was Professor Hajime Ishida. He was well known specialist in the research on aquaporin.
Looking attentively on the whole scientific activity of Professor Hajime Ishida, I wish to state with my strongest will and without the moment of hesitation that it is a life of outstanding scientist, with gigantic desire to discover the new physi-ological events, rules and mechanisms of physiphysi-ological systems, presenting the everlasting determination and great power in his character and at the same time being a very modest man, well-wishing to everybody and great humanist. He gen-tly tried to direct young scientists to specific and important area of research and to
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Polish Academy of Sciences, 2, Instytucka Str., PL-05110 Jablonna, Tel.: +48 22 765 33 00, Fax: +48 22 756 33 02, e-mail: k.kochman@ifzz.pan.pl Received: 02.08.2016 Accepted: 25.08.2016 DOI: dx.doi.org/10.15374/FZ2016044 Artykuł jest dostępny na zasadzie dozwolonego użytku osobistego. Dalsze rozpowszechnianie (w tym umieszczanie w sieci) jest zabronione i stanowi poważne naruszenie przepisów prawa autorskiego oraz grozi sankcjami prawnymi.
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give them the conviction that every research should be pre-cise and actual. Students and young scientists were always fascinated by his deep knowledge and research passion. He was always the role model in terms of a man who success-fully organized his research. He also understood very well the human weakness and imperfections, participated very often in the conquering them and in bringing to perfection of the young scientists character.
Professor Ishida was convinced that both experimental and didactic work have to be jointly considered and always present together. The contact with the young adepts of sci-ence, having the fresh mind permitted Professor to save both the enormous vivacity of his own mind and to avoid him the dogmatism. He strongly underlined that experimental re-search, with all doubts and difficulties, together with teach-ing, permits scientist to save the modesty and tolerance and on the other hand, permits student to better understand the essence of research – and it leads to the important discover-ies. He always worked very hard preparing his lectures. He tried to mobilize his listeners to thinking, to active partici-pate in the lecture and even to ask the questions directed to-wards the problems which were not discovered yet but have connection with the subject of lecture.
Scientific exploration and the methods utilized to receive results are compactly important and they should be consid-ered and utilized in the process of the objective understand-ing of everythunderstand-ing in the matter but not only and exclusively the recognition of unchangeable truth. He transmitted to students the suggestions, that they have to formulate their suggestions individually and independently of others and to have always in the mind that suggestions given by the great scientific authorities are not competent in the absolute way. Even the documented knowledge is possible to see and uti-lize in the way individual and creative.
Professor, directing learning process always had in mind that scientific exploration of students is as important as the knowledge and only this combination brings full under-standing. The new teachers should have always in mind that their suggestions are not always exclusively. He often stated that science should be perceived by scientists as uni-fied movement that causes the constant activity of the im-mense previous knowledge which already is perfectly sure. Scientific theories are like the circulation of blood; many experimental scientists profit them, confirming or adding their own corrections to them.
Active scientist, during the whole his work created the new or modified the existing elements of unanimous knowledge in the area of his research. As the academic teacher reconstructed of this knowledge for the students purpose. During this elucidation, his knowledge under-went of further setting in order, formalism and further im-provement. His scientific attitude was always pure, logical and univocal.
In 1992, Professor together with his family – wife Reiko and daughters: Masami i Tomomi – visited Poland. Beside of scientific discussions, they visited our country in my companion. We were in Zakopane city in mountains and we were traveling across the mountain paths. We stopped be-side the brook for a while and Hajime submerged hands in the cold water of the brook, wetted the face and then began to drink this very pure water. I offered him the cup, which I took with me. He decisively refused and said that he likes very direct contact with nature: this bring me the power and passion for work, he added. I was fascinated by his romantic character and great love of nature.
During another day of his visit, we went together with him and his family, to Zelazowa Wola, the birth place of Fryderyk Chopin, and we listened the concert of his piano music. Hajime showed interest in everything concerning the Chopin’s life, studied the exposed documents with every de-tails. Then he told us to continue the excursion to the garden
Fig. 1. Professor Hajime Ishida.
Fig. 2. Professor Hajime Ishida in Warsaw with Kazimierz Kochman.
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without him because he wished to be prepared to the con-cert, sitting alone in the last line of auditorium chairs and during that time to prepare himself in silence to the concert. He was sitting alone one hour long till the concert time.
I would like to remind the wishes card Professor wrote me, together with his coworker, associate Professor Yasuko Ishikawa, of 6 July 1995: In Japan, it is a rain season, now.
Japanese celebrate the star Festival on July 7th. But it may be
rain or cloudy tomorrow night. If it rains, the Milky Way will be flooded in heavens as traditional legend.
Professor Hajime Ishida had a distinct charisma; he was a man of great and excellent character, warm and spontane-ous delight, he was always very well-wishing for everybody. What was the origin of these unusual merits in the man be-ing always the normally well-ordered and logic Japanese? He was born and studied in Osaka.
Osaka is unusual and exceptional. This city is extremely attractive and interesting. It is known, in the city is lacking of very great monuments of ancient architecture except the castle, everywhere are a lot of concrete and steel, it is very in-teresting for the unusual citizens of the city. Inhabitants are very honesty and of strait full thinking and are able to have always a good humor and are ready to amusement, both young and older generation in Osaka have great abilities to
have of good humor. People are impatient and turbulent, and use the language full of fantastic formulations and from time to time use dirty words, which is very exceptional in Japan. Their language is very colorful. Fashion is also differ-ent in Osaka then in other cities of Japans. It is easy to see the people un-correctly dressed considering color cities and wear sometimes terribly fashion of hairs and shoes without good taste. In very well organized and accurate Japan, the citizens of Osaka are very different. Presently, in Osaka is noticed greatly unifying effect of education, radio and tele-vision with the rest of country.
Professor Hajime Ishida passed away on the day 12 April 2008. He was the great star during his life, emitting to ev-erybody bright, the purest rays, from which emanated both the great scientific strength and at the same time the un-usual love of people. He is, in my opinion, also the great star now, sending us from the heaven to the earth continually warm rays of the light which are very strong and very nice, warming hearths, causing and obliged us to the great, cor-rect and strong effort in research, in the continuous respect to the rules of ethics and giving people the sure prove that the friendship, true and without any private interest, in real-ity exists.
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