The Japanese Circulation Society (JCS)

In April 1935, "The Nippon Clinical Angio-Cardiology (Journal)" was first published by Prof. Toshikazu Mashimo at the former Kyoto Imperial University (now Kyoto University). He acted as the chief editor of the journal and noted in the preface that they should publicize new knowledge on circulatory organs for researchers and physicians to recognize its importance and have interest in it, because there were neither special societies which provided researchers with opportunities for presenting the results of studies nor publications which enlightened general physicians in Japan in those days. If you pick up an old issue of "The Nippon Clinical Angio-Cardiology (Journal)," you will find commentaries as well as essays and the results of studies in it, including lessons, explanations and clinical lectures which the chief editor himself wrote for every issue. Prof. Mashimo also wrote the editor's postscript with humor in an effort to make the journal familiar to readers.