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Masachika Shimose was born on January 8, 1860 in Hiroshima, Japan. He was the son of a samurai of the Hiroshima Clan.
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Masachika Shimose
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Education
He studied applied chemistry at Kobu Daigaku (Engineer College, predecessor of the Engineering Department of Tokyo University).
Career
He entered Ministry of Finance's Printing Bureau and then the Navy Armaments Plant, where he was engaged in the study of gunpowder. In 1898, he traveled abroad, and in the following year gained a doctorate in engineering and became director-general of the Navy Shimose Gunpowder Manufacturing Plant, where he continued his research.
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