Sumihiko Hatusima

Sumihiko Hatsushima (初島 住彦, Hatsushima Sumihiko, September 1906 – January 22, 2008) was a Japanese botanist. In scholarly works using the Latin alphabet, his name is generally romanised as "Sumihiko Hatusima" following the "Kunrei" system.^[1][2]

Hatsushima was born in Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan in 1906.^[1][2] His tertiary studies and early lectureship was at Kyushu Imperial University, where he was awarded a doctorate in 1942.^[2] He accompanied Ryōzō Kanehira on a collecting expedition in New Guinea in 1940.^[2] Hatsushima returned to Austronesia in a collecting expedition to the Philippines in 1964.^[2]

Hatsushima died in 2008.^[3]