Kihara Institute for Biological Research, Yokohama City University, Japan.

Kohji Hasunuma was born in 1943 in Tokyo in the middle of the Second World War at the Christian family of Chiyoji and Fumie. Koh means worship god and Ji means follow the work of god. At the end of The Second World War I observed more than 3,000 soldiers dying on the sheets of strough beds in front of the Ueno Zoo. I always made endeavor to study and aimed to contribute for the people. I have suffered from the severe shortage of foods, and aimed to study genetics based Plant Biology and further photosynthesis. I have studied science on the light from physics at the under graduate student. I have developed the method to detect light energy transduction and detected very short labeling of mycelial extract only by 1 sec illumination on the ice by career free [gamma-32P]ATP reproducibly increased in the phosphorylation of a small protein (15 kDa), which was identified to be the nucleoside diphosphate kinase.