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DR. MARIE STOPES writes: “All that Prof. Donnan says in the first paragraph (NATURE, Aug. 5, p. 234) of his obituary notice of Japan's greatest scientist I should like to endorse from personal experience while an honorary member of the professor's common room in the Imperial University, Tokyo. However, no obituary would be complete without mention of his spiritual and literary sensibilities. These were partly revealed by his interest and proficiency in the profound medieval religious plays ‘Tho Nō’ which he and I translated together into English and published under the title ‘Plays of Old Japan’. The then Japanese Ambassador, Baron Kato, wrote that they ‘placed Western students of Japanese art and literature under a debt of gratitude'. Prof. Sakurai, who was a most faithful friend, was in Great Britain for the Coronation of King George VI, and I had the privilege of viewing it with him. He was one of the few scientists who made one revere him”.
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Baron Joji Sakurai. Nature 144, 471 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/144471c0
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