Yokohama in the Interwar Period

The atlas holds 4 people and 5 moments here, from 1926 to 1939. The most recorded lives are Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Yasunari Kawabata and Hideki Yukawa.

Hideki Yukawa
in 1939
1 moment here
Japanese theoretical physicist and the first Japanese Nobel laureate, awarded the 1949 Nobel Prize in Physics for predicting mesons.…
Prajadhipok
in 1931
1 moment here
Prajadhipok (Rama VII) was King of Siam from 1925 until his abdication in 1935. Educated in England and trained in the military, he travelled…
Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
in 1926
2 moments here
Japanese short-story writer of the Taishō period, born Ryūnosuke Niihara in Tokyo and adopted into the Akutagawa family.…
Yasunari Kawabata
in 1935
1 moment here
Japanese novelist and short-story writer, Nobel laureate in Literature in 1968. His documented movements include an Osaka and Ibaraki childhood,…