He reported a mass Cycas revoluta (sago palm) poisoning in people living on Miyako-jima island in 1956.
Kanzen Teruya (照屋寛善) was born in January, 1920 in Shuri, Naha, Okinawa.
In the last days of World War II, he worked as an army physician stationed in Southeast Asia.
In November, 1956, he studied a mass Cycas revoluta poisoning, the first in the world, which occurred because of starvation.
[1] In 1961, the vice-president of the Health Department, Ryukyu Government.