Publisher's Synopsis
Tadayo Hashimoto, leading physician-scientist and award-winning medical educator shares his insights from his life's journey, which spans nearly 100 years across two countries. Born in Japan on the precipice of rising Japanese imperial expansion, he describes his personal journey during Japan's ambitious entry onto the world stage, which ultimately devastates Japan and its people. He shares his struggle throughout his war years, as he encounters infection, starvation, and the utter destruction of his home and city. Inspired by the pioneering microbiologists who discovered that some of the most horrific diseases are caused by germs, he makes his way to the very country that defeated his own, only to be embraced and supported to continue his work. He shares with humor and a sense of awe his insights and sequence of improbable events that lead him to an understanding greater than himself or science.
