Hiro Fujimoto is Postdoctoral Fellow at Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) and Postdoctoral Researcher at Kyoto University, working on the history of medicine in modern Japan from a global perspective.

He has been exploring how the American medical missionaries and Japanese Christian physicians conducted medical work in Japan.

His new projects include the circulation of medical films (surgery films and health education films), overseas Japanese women doctors, and the relationship between food, health, and religion.

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Medicine and Christianity:
American Protestant Missionaries and their Medical Work in Japan


His first monograph written in Japanese was published by Hosei University Press in August 2021.

Winner of the 2022 Yakazu Medical History Award
(Japanese Society for the History of Medicine)


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