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MEMORIAL THE LOST GIANT IN JAPAN KYOJIRO SOMEYA (1923-2000) The good is oft interred with their bones (Shakespeare) Reviewed by Hideki Murai (Nihon University) Susumu Saito (Sakushin Gakuin University) Yoshiro Kimizuka (Derikitsushin University, Emeritus) Kyojiro Someya, Professor emeritus of Waseda University, died suddenly before dawn on January 3, 2000, as he neared the age of 77. He had completed the correction of proofs of his last book, Accounting and Management of Cash Flow, on the day before, but to our regret could not write the preface. His academic achievements were his brilliant activities at home and abroad and his publication of over 90 books, including 24 coauthored, and more than 200 papers. It was a reflection of their remarkable Two giants: east and west, and Kimizuka (taken by Prof. S. Katsuyama at Tokyo) contributions to the academic world that Professor Paul Garner and Professor Someya were awarded "Founder's Award" at the Paris meeting of International Association of Accounting Education and Research (IAAER) held in October 1997. It was so natural that four Japanese journals of accounting admired his imperishable fruits in their condolences. Professor Someya graduated first on the list of the College of Commerce, Waseda Happy Retirement Party (taken by Kimizuka) University, one of the traditional institutions, in 1946, but the breakout of the Pacific War called him to the army from the campus in 1943. He was engaged in auditing of the oil costs and received his commission as a paymaster second lieutenant. After the war, he resumed his study at the university and was appointed to the position of instructor in 1949, to assistant professor two years later, and the professor at the early age of 31, an exceptional promotion in Japanese universities. Someya passed through the literally narrow gate, the first examination for Certified Public Accountant (CPA), in 1949, when CPAs were born for the first time in Japan. He received the Japan Accounting Association (JAA) Prize for his speech at the twentieth annual meeting in 1962. After ten years he was appointed dean of the college of Commerce of Waseda University, and the JAA members elected him director of JAA after four years. The certified electors chose him to be a member of the Science Council 8 The Accounting Historians Notebook, October, 2000