- Yasuko Tomizawa: Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Tokyo Women's Medical University, Tokyo, Japan.
"Ichushi" is a Japanese medical bibliographic database containing 7 million citations originated in Japan, with the aim to contribute to medicine in our country. It was initiated by one Japanese medical practitioner in 1903, in the style of a collection of abstracts from the domestic medical literature at that time. The form was changed from booklet to CD-ROM, and then through the internet. Recently, the database covers medicine, nursing, dentistry, and veterinary medicine.