{"id":73318,"date":"2018-01-22T13:15:21","date_gmt":"2018-01-22T23:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=73318"},"modified":"2020-03-13T15:14:23","modified_gmt":"2020-03-14T01:14:23","slug":"japan-government-honors-izutsu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2018\/01\/22\/japan-government-honors-izutsu\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan government honors longtime <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> medical school admissions director"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><div class=\"responsive-video-wrap\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"676\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/V25tN1D_Y00?rel=0\" title=\"YouTube video player\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_73349\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-73349\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/manoa-jabsom-izutsu-s.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" class=\"size-full wp-image-73349\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/manoa-jabsom-izutsu-s.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/manoa-jabsom-izutsu-s-218x300.jpg 218w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-73349\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Satoru Izutsu (Photo by Vina Cristobal)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Satoru Izutsu<\/strong>, the former admissions director and vice dean of the <a href=\"http:\/\/jabsom.hawaii.edu\/\">John A. Burns School of Medicine<\/a> (JABSOM) at the<a href=\"http:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\/\"> University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at M\u0101noa<\/a>, was presented the Order of the Rising Sun medal by the government of Japan for leading <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> aid to Okinawa.<\/p>\n<p>Izutsu led the medical school efforts to assist Okinawa following World War <abbr title=\"Roman numeral two\">II<\/abbr>. The Japanese prefecture badly needed physicians, so <abbr>UH<\/abbr> and Chubu Hospital in Okinawa began a physician training collaboration that has lasted 50 years.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Today at the 500-bed Chubu Hospital there are over 130 staff physicians, of whom 70 percent are graduates of the <abbr>UH<\/abbr>-Chubu program,&rdquo; said Honolulu Consul General Koichi Ito.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;This award has been made possible because of the support of a generation of scholars from the John A. Burns School of Medicine,&rdquo; said Izutsu. He also said the national decoration is &ldquo;truly their award,&rdquo; referring to <abbr>UH<\/abbr> partners at Chubu Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Izutsu, 89, retired from <abbr>UH<\/abbr> in December 2017 after three decades of service.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I can think of no one who so ably meets the expectations for this award than Dr. Izutsu,&rdquo; said <abbr title=\"John A. Burns School of Medicine\">JABSOM<\/abbr> Dean <a href=\"http:\/\/jabsom.hawaii.edu\/minimedschool\/faculty\/facultyHedges.html\"><strong>Jerris Hedges<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_73347\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-73347\" style=\"width: 676px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/manoa-jabsom-izutsu-japan-medal.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"size-full wp-image-73347\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/manoa-jabsom-izutsu-japan-medal.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/manoa-jabsom-izutsu-japan-medal-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-73347\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Satoru Izutsu, right, was presented the Order of the Rising Sun medal by Japan Consul General Koichi Ito. (Photo by Deborah Manog)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>More about the Order of the Rising Sun medal<\/h2>\n<p>The Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon, is the third highest honor bestowed by the Japanese government and the highest award for a non-citizen of Japan. Given in the name of the Emperor of Japan, it commemorates distinguished achievement in international relations, promotion of the Japanese culture, advancements in fields, welfare development or preservation of the environment.<\/p>\n<p>To see more about this story, including photographs from the ceremony, <a href=\"http:\/\/jabsom.hawaii.edu\/dr-satoru-izutsu-receives-order-of-the-rising-sun-from-japan-government-for-aid-to-okinawa\/\">go to the <abbr>JABSOM<\/abbr> website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8212;By Tina Shelton<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Satoru Izutsu led the medical school efforts to assist Okinawa following World War <abbr title=\"Roman numeral 2\">II<\/abbr>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":73347,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[598,134,31,9,56],"class_list":["post-73318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-people","tag-faculty-recognition","tag-international","tag-john-a-burns-school-of-medicine","tag-uh-manoa","tag-video-2","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/manoa-jabsom-izutsu-japan-medal.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73318"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113706,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73318\/revisions\/113706"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}