was a Japanese ophthalmologist who reported a condition now known as

Vogt–Koyanagi–Harada disease Vogt–Koyanagi–Harada disease (VKH) is a multisystem disease of presumed autoimmune cause that affects melanin-pigmented tissues. The most significant manifestation is bilateral, diffuse uveitis, which affects the eyes. VKH may variably also ...

Career

He was born in Goryo, Amakusa District,

Kumamoto Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located on the island of Kyūshū. Kumamoto Prefecture has a population of 1,748,134 () and has a geographic area of . Kumamoto Prefecture borders Fukuoka Prefecture to the north, Ōita Prefecture to the northeast, M ...

in 1892 and grew up in Taragi, Kuma District, and

Kumamoto is the capital city of Kumamoto Prefecture on the island of Kyushu, Japan. , the city has an estimated population of 738,907 and a population density of 1,893 people per km2. The total area is 390.32 km2. had a population of 1,461,000, ...

. While attending the Medical Faculty,

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, he became an army-doctor-to-be. He graduated from Tokyo University in 1917. After studying internal medicine, he entered the Department of Ophthalmology under

Shinobu Ishihara Shinobu Ishihara (石原忍, ''Ishihara Shinobu'', Tokyo, September 25, 1879 – Izu Peninsula, January 3, 1963) was a Japanese ophthalmologist who created the Ishihara color test to detect colour blindness. He was an army surgeon. Early life ...

in January, 1922. In December 1922, he first reported "A case of acute diffuse choroiditis with retinal detachment" at a meeting of ophthalmologists in Tokyo; this work became a paper in 1926,Addentum to the clinical findings on non-suppurative chorioititis (on acute diffuse chorioiditis). Acta Societatis ophthalmologicae Japonicae, (Nihon Ganka Gakkai Zasshi), 1926, 30: 356-378. recognized for its comprehensive description of what is now known as

. He later worked in

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with his father-in-law, who was also an ophthalmologist. In 1937, he became an army doctor; he was later stationed in the Philippines. In 1945, his office was destroyed by

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. On December 20, 1946, he died of pneumonia at the age of 54.

References

e-Medicine, Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada Disease

Notes

{{DEFAULTSORT:Harada, Einosuke Japanese ophthalmologists People from Kumamoto Prefecture 1892 births 1946 deaths