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Cultural Program



Messages from a 98-year-old
Doctor in Active Service




Date: Friday, February 19,2010
Place: International House, Roppongi
Time: 1:30pm Doors Open, Program 2:00 – 3:30 pm
Fee: 1500 yen
Others
welcome:		 yes

Contact:
culturalprogram@cwaj.org

Dr. Shigeaki Hinohara may be the busiest 98-year-old in the world. His schedule book is full until 2014, with lectures and hospital work. He has published over 200 books, covering a spectrum of topics, from medicine, essays, poems, picture books for children, to Christianity. “Living Long, Living Good” sold over 1.2 million copies in 2001, making him the oldest best-selling author in Japan. If you want to think about how to plan your life, he would be an excellent advisor.

Dr. Hinohara has continuously upgraded Japanese medical care from the viewpoint of the quality of life of the patient. He understands the mind of patients, who suffer from serious illness, as he experienced it himself. He has promoted the system of medical education and nursing education, and also preventive medicine, and hospice care. St. Luke’s International Hospital is now recognized as a first-class hospital with 520 beds, all of which are single. St.Luke’s College of Nursing is now one of Japan’s top institutions. In 1996, he influenced the Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare to switch from using the word “adult disease” to “lifestyle-related disease”. One of his favorite pastimes is composing music, and he works tirelessly as Chairman of the Japanese Music Therapy Association, one of many positions he holds.


Major books by Dr. Hinohara
  • From Life Prolonging Medicine to Regenerating Care, Igakushoin Co.,1983
  • How They Lived Their Deaths-- People in my recollection, Chuo Koron Co., 1983
  • Living of the elderly, Press Asahi, 1985
  • Four Seasons of Life, Iwanami Shoten, 1987
  • Quality of Life, Iwanami Shoten, 1993
  • K. Uemura & S. Hinohara; Critics on modern science for medicine, Iwanami Shoten, 1995
  • Living with Volunteer Spirit, PHP Institute, 1995
  • Healing Power of Music, Shunju-sha, 1996
  • Light on the way of life, Shunjyu-sha, 1999
  • Music play of the Fall of Freddie the Leaf dramatized by Dr. S. Hinohara with his philosophical address on death and dying, Dowa-ya, 2000.
  • My Message to the Ten-Year-old Friends, Fuzanbou International, 2006.
  • Living Long, Living Good, IBC Publishing, Inc., 2006.( in English)
  • I Want to Talk to You Now, Life, Time, and Peace－ NHK Publisher Inc.,2008.
Current Posts
  • Chairman of the Board, The Life Planning Center
  • Honorary President & Chairman of Board of Trustees, St. Luke’s International Hospital
  • Honorary President, St. Luke’s College of Nursing
  • Honorary President, Japan Society for Medical Education.
  • Chairman, Japanese Music Therapy Association
  • Chairman, Japan Society of Health Evaluation and Promotion
  • Chairman, Japan Society of Spiritual Care
  • Fellow, American College of Cardiology
  • Honorary member, American Osler Society,
  • President, Japanese Osler Society
  • Honorary Fellow, American College of Physicians