Hideo Shima
Japanese engineer
Died when: 96 years 303 days (1161 months)Star Sign: Taurus
Hideo Shima (島 秀雄, Shima Hideo, 20 May 1901 – 18 March 1998) was a Japanese engineer and the driving force behind the building of the first bullet train (Shinkansen).
Shima was born in Osaka in 1901, and educated at the Tokyo Imperial University, where he studied Mechanical Engineering.His father was part of a group of officials that had built up Japan's emerging railroad industry.
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