Yoshiro Okabe

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Yoshiro Okabe (岡部 芳郎; April 9, 1884–March 1, 1945) was the only Japanese assistant of Thomas Edison. He worked at Menlo Park from 1904 to 1914.

After going back Japan, Okabe made the short Sound film Katyusha using Edison's kinetoscope. He died in 1945 in Kobe in a U.S. air strike.

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