NAME：HIRAGUCHI Tetsuo OFFICE：History and Anthropology, Humanities, Human Sciences, Kanazawa Medical University FAX/TEL：+81(0)76-286-6414, TEL：+81(0)76-286-2211 ext.7104 BIRTH：April 4, 1945 in Tsuruga, Fukui Prefecture, Japan. B. A.：1969, M. A.：1971, Tohoku University LAST SCHOOL：Leaving the doctor's course of literature, Tohoku University, after taking sufficient credits in March 1974. FULL-TIME LECTULER：Premedical Course of KMU, April 1974. ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR：Premedical Course of KMU, April 1982. PROFESSOR：Premedical Course of KMU, April 2003. RESEACH INTERESTS/EXPERTISE：Environmental and ethnological archaeology (especially prehistoric whaling), and anthropological education for medical students. SOCIETY'S OFFICER：The president of the Sea of Japan Cetology Research Group (1997-2005), and the adviser of the Ishikawa Archaeological Society. (A photograph taken with antlers of a deer, Cervus nippon yesoensis, 1999)