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Shosei Koda
male, deceased - Shosei Koda was a Japanese citizen who was kidnapped and later beheaded in Iraq on November 3, 2004 while touring the country. The captors demanded...
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Yoshio Kodama
male, deceased - Yoshio Kodama was a prominent figure in the rise of organized crime in Japan. The most famous 'kuromaku', or behind-the-scen
es power broker, of the...
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Nick Leeson
male - Nicholas Leeson (English, born February 25, 1967) is a former derivatives trader whose unsupervised speculative trading caused the collapse of...
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Tadamichi Kuribayashi
male, deceased - Tadamichi Kuribayashi was a Lieutenant General in the Imperial Japanese Army, best known as overall commander of the Japanese garrison during most...
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Hideki Yukawa
male, deceased - Hideki Yukawa FRSE (湯川 秀樹, January 23, 1907 - September 8, 1981) was a Japanese theoretical physicist and the first Japanese to win the Nobel pr...
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Shoji Hamada
male, deceased - Shoji Hamada was a Japanese potter. He was born in Tokyo, Japan, and died in Mashiko, Tochigi Prefecture. He studied ceramics at Tokyo Institute of...
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Abe Masahiro
male, deceased - Abe Masahiro (December 3, 1819, Edo (now Tokyo) - August 6, 1857, Edo) was the chief senior councillor ("rōjū") in the Japanese government at the ti...
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Franz von Eckert
male, deceased - Franz von Eckert was a German musician who composed the harmony for Japan's national anthem, "Kimi Ga Yo." Franz von Eckert was a native of...
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Julius Scriba
male, deceased - Julius Karl Scriba was a German surgeon serving as a foreign advisor in Meiji period Japan, where he was an important contributor to the...
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Ottmar von Mohl
male, deceased - Ottmar von Mohl was a German diplomat and government advisor in Meiji period Japan. Ottmar von Mohl, born in Tübingen, Germany was the son of f...
