My memories of Japanese pediatric neurosurgery

At the end of World War II, medical students in Japan knew that the United States of America were the world leaders in medical science, and they dreamed of establishing such a rational and pragmatic brand of medicine in their own country. As the number of motor vehicle accidents increased in parallel with the raid growth of the Japanese economy after the war, the need for neurosurgery also intensified. The number of papers dealing with pediatric issues increased tremendously after the ISPN and JSPN had first held meetings in Japan in September 1973. It seems mandatory for us to back up the activity of the children's hospitals by establishing a subspecialty of pediatric neurosurgery.