Background
Kiyofusa Sotome was born in 1875 in Tokyo, Japan.
Kiyofusa Sotome was born in 1875 in Tokyo, Japan.
He graduated from Astronomy Section, Tokyo University (1899).
Kiyofusa Sotome was appointed assistant professor at the university (1916) and studied in Europe and the United States (1922). Appointed professor at the university and concurrently director of the Tokyo Astronomical Observatory, which post he held until 1936.