Background
Noboru Watanabe was born on May 1, 1838 in Omura, Nagasaki, Japan.
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Noboru Watanabe was born on May 1, 1838 in Omura, Nagasaki, Japan.
Noboru Watanabe studied Chinese and fencing under Sokuken Yasui and Yakuro Saito.
Along with Takayoshi Kido and Ryoma Sakamoto, played an active part in the loyalist movement: Joined Meiji Government (1868); appointed Governor of Osaka; became member of the Senate (1880) and appointed chief of the Audit Board.