Shigeo watanabe biography sample
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Special Collection in Honor of Shigueo Watanabe: Foreword and Biographical Note
Prepared by Marcelo Barbosa dem Andrade and Marcio Luis Ferreira Nascimento.
On April 4, 2014, a Friday, Brazilian physicist Shigueo Watanabe celebrated his 90th birthday, doing what he loves most: working, or more precisely, teaching a postgraduate class at the Institute of Physics (IFUSP, www.if.usp.br) of the University of São Paulo (USP). Up to the age of 95 years, he regularly visited his lab, from 9 am to 4 pm, with a short måltid pause at home, just 2.2 miles away.
An internationally renowned forskare, he presented himself as just Shigueo. He was born in a small Japanese community farm called Clear vatten (“Água Limpa”), Araçatuba, São Paulo, where he showed from an early age a remarkable ability for mathematics, being the first “nikkei” (descendant born outside Japan) to become a professor at the Faculty of Philosophy, Sciences and Letters of the University of São Paulo, Physics Department, no
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Introduction
Mostow, Joshua S.. "Introduction". At the House of Gathered Leaves: Shorter Biographical and Autobiographical Narratives from Japanese Court Literature, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2004, pp. 1-45. https://doi.org/10.1515/9780824846213-003
Mostow, J. (2004). Introduction. In At the House of Gathered Leaves: Shorter Biographical and Autobiographical Narratives from Japanese Court Literature (pp. 1-45). Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. https://doi.org/10.1515/9780824846213-003
Mostow, J. 2004. Introduction. At the House of Gathered Leaves: Shorter Biographical and Autobiographical Narratives from Japanese Court Literature. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, pp. 1-45. https://doi.org/10.1515/9780824846213-003
Mostow, Joshua S.. "Introduction" In At the House of Gathered Leaves: Shorter Biographical and Autobiographical Narratives from Japanese Court Literature, 1-45. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2004. https://doi.org/10.1515/9780824846
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Last Letter of Corporal Kōzō Watanabe to His Parents
On May 27, 1945, Corporal Kōzō Watanabe took off from Chiran Air Base and died in a special (suicide) attack west of Okinawa at the age of 18. He was a member of the 431st Shinbu Special Attack Squadron. He piloted an Army Type 97 Fighter (Allied code name of Nate). After his death in a special attack, he received a promotion to Second Lieutenant. He was from Tochigi Prefecture and was a member of the 14th Class of the Army Youth Pilot (Rikugun Shōhi) training program.
He wrote the following final letter to his parents with a poem at the end:
Father, please forgive me for not contacting you in a very long time. I can guess from afar that you may be worried. I apologize for my lack of filial piety.
Father, I think that you too are readily prepared, but I also now have received an Imperial command for a special attack. Please be gl