Messages from Kennichi Kakudo, MD, PhD to a person to be an expert of the cytopathology

I would like to share with you about my recent news from China, http://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/Kvr9fAy2TFvH08GLSuwLWQ .  It is a great honor to have such a prestigious award, Qilu Friendship Award, from Shandon province. During my 20 years chairmanship of Department of Human Pathology, Wakayama Medical University, I received 11 Chinese PhD students, visited Shandon University more than 10 times and promoted in exchange medical students between the 2 universities. I am happy to know these efforts were appreciated in this friendship award.

The Working Group of Asian Thyroid FNA Cytology had several projects and one of them become visible.  I would like to announce a special issue of Journal of Pathology and Translational Medicine on Current Practices of Thyroid Fine-Needle Aspiration in Asia (http://jpatholtm.org/current/?vol=51&no=6​).  Nine authors from our Working Group published their practices introducing their practice in details. I believe this special issue will be a good sources in the future when refere thyroid practice in Asian countries.