[1] The journal [2] was established in 1929 by Kenjiro Fujii (1866-1929; Tokyo Imperial University) as a founding editor-in-chief.
Cytologia [3] was the first international journal published in Japan, with the first edition appearing in 1929 by Kenjiro Fujii (1866–1952).
Hitoshi Kihara (1893-1986), who was proposed the concept of "genome", was one of the most active contributors to Cytologia in early days of this journal.
George W. Beadle (1903–1989), who is a Nobel Prize laureate and a founder of Biochemical Genetics, also contributed to Cytologia.
His paper entitled “A Gene in Zea mays for Failure of Cytokinesis during Meiosis” appeared in 1932 in Cytologia.