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Tokyo Institute of Technology was founded by the government of Japan as the Tokyo Vocational School on May 26, 1881, [3] 14 years after the Meiji Restoration.To accomplish the quick catch-up to the West, the government expected this school to cultivate new modernized craftsmen and engineers.
Yoshinori Ohsumi – Nobel laureate (Medicine, 2016); Hideki Shirakawa (BSc 1961, PhD 1966) – Nobel laureate (Chemistry, 2000) [1]; Pailin Chuchottaworn – former CEO and president of PTT, founder and chairman of Kamnoetvidya Science Academy [2] [3] [4]
Images of a Woman was painted over three nights in July 1966 in a Tokyo Hilton suite where all four of the Beatles (John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr) were staying as part of their tour of the Far East. The group had been placed in lockdown as a precaution by the Japanese authorities after death threats had been ...
This is a list of women artists who were born in Japan or whose artworks are closely associated with that country. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
1980 - first woman elected to the Science Council of Japan. 1981 - won the Avon Special Prize for Women, for researching peaceful uses of nuclear power and raising the status of women scientists. 1981 - established the Saruhashi Prize, given yearly to a female scientist who serves as a role model for younger women scientists. [2]
Toko Shinoda (篠田 桃紅, Shinoda Tōkō, 28 March 1913 – 1 March 2021) was a Japanese artist. Shinoda is best known for her abstract sumi ink paintings and prints. . Shinoda's oeuvre was predominantly executed using the traditional means and media of East Asian calligraphy, but her resulting abstract ink paintings and prints express a nuanced visual affinity with the bold black ...
The Flag of the Tokyo Metropolis (東京都旗, Tōkyō-to-ki) was adopted on October 1, 1964, under the Metropolitan Announcement No. 1042 (告示第1042号). It features a white Metropolitan Crest on center. The background color is Edo purple (江戸紫, Edo murasaki), which was popular in Edo, the name of Tokyo during the Edo period.
Toyohara Kunichika (Japanese: 豊原 国周; 30 June 1835 – 1 July 1900) was a Japanese woodblock print artist. Talented as a child, at about thirteen he became a student of Tokyo's then-leading print maker, Utagawa Kunisada.