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About Tanaka Hisashige
Hisashige Tanaka was a Japanese businessman, inventor, mechanical engineer, and rangaku scholar who was prominent during the Bakumatsu and early Meiji period in Japan. In 1875, he founded what became the Toshiba Corporation. He has been called the "Thomas Edison of Japan" or "Karakuri Giemon."
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- inventor
- Citizenship
- Japan
- Born
- October 16, 1799
- Died
- November 7, 1881