On the Commemoration of the Seventieth Birthday of Prof. M. Matsumoto

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This mumber of the Journal is intended to commemorate the seventieth birthday of Prof. M. Matsumoto. He was born September 15, 1865. His academic career is as follows. Tokyo Imperial University, 1890-1898,Bungakushi, Bungakuhakushi; Yale University, 1896-1898,Ph. D.;University of Leipzig, 1898-1899. He was professor at Kyôto Imperial University, 1906-1913, at Tokyo Imperial University, 1913-1926, and now retired.Psychology in Japan has made remarkable progress. There are large psychological institutes in the six Imperial, the two Bunrika and a few private Universities. We have also institutes for Child Study, Aeronautical Psychology and Labor Psychology. Many books and periodicals, and various researches are published both in Japanese and European languages, although most of them are written in Japanese and thus inaccessible to fore gners. This great progress of the science is indebted mainly to the late Prof. Motoia and Prof. Matsumoto, especially to the latter.Prof. Matsumoto has greatly developed Experimental Psychology and has improved or established laboratories in Japan. Many psychologists in this country are his pupils and their works were suggested or guided by him. He is now President of the Japanese Association of Psychology and taking an important part in the progress of the science. He has arrived now at the age of seventy, according to Japanese reckoning, which is called “Koki,” i. e. “seldom attained from of old,” and this is made a special occasion for celebration in our country. For commemorating it, a banquet was held on his birthday, September 15, and this issue of the Journal is dedicated to him in recognition of his distinguished services to Psychology.

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