Celebration of the 150th birthday of Professor Sunao Tawara

CELEBRATION OF THE 150TH BIRTHDAY OF PROFESSOR SUNAO TAWARA Kan Takayanagi, MD, PhD, Honorary Professor of Dokkyo Medical University, Honorary Director, Kasukabe Kosei Hospital (k-takayanagi@skmg.jp) Kazuo Matsumoto, MD, PhD, Editor in Chief, Journal of Arrhythmia Professor Sunao Tawara was born in Oita, Japan on 5 July 1873 and first documented the presence of the atrioventricular node in 1906. Posthumously considered, both scientists were early ambassadors for a global world that, in addition to scientific curiosity, also had the goal of improving the quality of life of people. May as many as possible follow this primordial universal goal of the two! I wish the Japanese Heart Rhythm Society much success for your event. For this reason, the President of the University, the Lord Mayor of the City of Marburg, the CEO of our University Hospital, Dr. Weiß and myself named two streets or squares last December after Tada Urata, the first Japanese physician to receive a doctorate in Marburg, and after Sunao Tawara and his teacher Ludwig Aschoff, the discoverers of the cardiac conduction system.