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The author found a new rickettsial disease clinically in 1984, and named it Japanese spottedfever in 1987.For more than 20 years, the investigations concerning this emerging infectious disease hasrequired the collaborative studies with many researchers, such as internal medicine, infection controlmedicine, dermatology, microbiology, pathology, entomology, zoology, veterinary medicine subsequently.This article presented the current status of Japanese spotted fever and the process of solutionabout clinical based question by cooperation of the basic medical scientist.The cases presented were as follows ;1）Research for the vector study2）Development of the new histopathological diagnostic method3）Discussion about the clinical studies on Japanese spotted fever among medical studentsand pathologist, at the summer school which is organized by the society of pathology.It is a great pleasure to share the intellectual curiosity based on the prominent insight withhigh technology between clinical and basic medicine investigators.That must be attractive to young power and inspires the scientist.