Osaka in the Cold War
The atlas holds 4 people and 5 moments here, from 1950 to 1969. The most recorded lives are Yasunari Kawabata, Hideki Yukawa and Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan.
Notable people
Abebe Bikila
in 1961
1 moment here
Ethiopian marathon runner and Imperial Guard officer who won Olympic marathon gold in Rome in 1960 and Tokyo in 1964, both in world-record time.…
Hideki Yukawa
in 1950
1 moment here
Japanese theoretical physicist and the first Japanese Nobel laureate, awarded the 1949 Nobel Prize in Physics for predicting mesons.…
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
in 1956
1 moment here
Indian philosopher, academic, diplomat, and statesman. Radhakrishnan taught at leading Indian and British universities, served as vice-chancellor of…
Yasunari Kawabata
from 1965 to 1969
2 moments here
Japanese novelist and short-story writer, Nobel laureate in Literature in 1968. His documented movements include an Osaka and Ibaraki childhood,…
Moments
- 1950 Visit to the University of Osaka Hideki Yukawa
- 1956 Address to Indian community in Osaka Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
- 1961 Mainichi Marathon victory Abebe Bikila
- 1965 Lecture at Ibaraki High School anniversary Yasunari Kawabata
- 1969 Ibaraki literary-monument ceremony and lecture Yasunari Kawabata