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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 39. Chapters: Japanese botanists, Japanese geneticists, Japanese marine biologists, Japanese microbiologists, Japanese mycologists, Japanese pathologists, Japanese physiologists, Japanese zoologists, Hirohito, Kikutaro Baba, Hideyo Noguchi, Akio Mori, Woo Jang-choon, Kensuke Mitsuda, Katsuma Dan, Kitasato Shibasabur, Kaibara Ekken, Hiroyoshi Ohashi, Masakazu Konishi, Yasutomi Nishizuka, Takuji Iwasaki, Hiroshi Tamiya, Ch zabur Tanaka, Ryukichi Inada, Tokiharu Abe, Takashi Gojobori, Teruo Higa, Tomitaro Makino, Susumu Ohno, Tokubei Kuroda, Nobuo Suga, Kiyoshi Shiga, Shintar Hirase, Tsunemi Kubodera, Sunao Tawara, Mitsutaro Shirai, Jisaburo Ohwi, Seiji Ogawa, Shigeo Kurata, Nobuyuki Tanaka, Yoshio Masui, Tsuguo Hongo, Sumihiko Hatusima, Reiji Okazaki, Yoshiyuki Sakaki, Kunio Yamazaki, Nakagawa Jun'an, Genkei Masamune, Kanesuke Hara, Yu Yokoya, Ninzo Matsumura, Noriaki Fukuyama, Keisuke Ito, Tamezo Mori, Hiroshi Inoue, Hamao Umezawa, Yoichir Hirase, Kunihiko Hashida, Tsuneko Okazaki, Takenoshin Nakai, Takasi Tokioka, Bunz Hayata, Ry z Kanehira, Yasuyoshi Shirasawa, Kintaro Okamura, Chiyomatsu Ishikawa, Hisayoshi Takeda, Hisashi Abe, Kinichiro Sakaguchi, Ichiro Miyake, Hiroshi Hara. Excerpt: Hirohito ), posthumously in Japan officially called Emperor Sh wa or the Sh wa Emperor Sh wa tenn ), (April 29, 1901 - January 7, 1989) was the 124th emperor of Japan according to the traditional order, reigning from December 25, 1926, until his death in 1989. Although better known outside of Japan by his personal name Hirohito, in Japan he is now referred to exclusively by his posthumous name Emperor Sh wa. The word Sh wa is the name of the era that corresponded with the Emperor's reign, and was made the Emperor's own name upon his death. At the start of his reign, Japan was already one of the great powers - the ninth largest economy in t...