Shigeyoshi Matsumae

Shigeyoshi Matsumae
Shigeyoshi Matsumae, around 1941
Born	October 24, 1901 Kashima, Kumamoto, Japan
Died	August 25, 1991
Nationality	Japanese
Occupation(s)	Electric engineer, Educator, Representative of the Diet, Statesman
Known for	Inventor of the non-loaded carrier system. He was sent to the Philippines as a soldier for harassment. Founder of Tokai University, Representative of the Diet

Shigeyoshi Matsumae (松前重義, Matsumae Shigeyoshi, October 24, 1901 – August 25, 1991) was a Japanese

Atom bomb was dropped on Hiroshima on 6 August 1945 at 9:15 am. To look into the nature of the new type of bomb "Hiroshima Bomb Investigation Group" was formed and Matsumae was appointed as its leader. On 8 August 1945, the Hiroshima Bomb Investigation Group (Shigeyoshi Matsumae accompanied by a team of technicians) set off from Tokorozawa in a military aircraft bound for Hiroshima. As the team left the aircraft and walked into the city area the scene of desolation was indescribable.^{[citation needed]} Besides the heaps of corpses the survivors, their bodies terribly burnt, squatted vacantly. Matsumae found his way into the Hiroshima telegraph office which Matsumae visited previously and went inside the shell of the building. Matsumae found the blackened body of the Director, Tadasi Yoshida, who had helped him with the development of non-loaded cable. He had already been laid to rest.^{[citation needed]} Squatting by his side was his wife, apparently drained of blood (5 days later she died of radiation sickness).

Wherever Matsumae took measurements of radiation, the amount of deadly radiation was far above normal.^{[citation needed]} Matsumae and technicians of his team were continuously being bathed in radiation and had no idea when their bodies would start to undergo some change. They worked desperately, since Matsumae had a duty to the dead to record all the details of the appalling scene and to transmit these to posterity. On 10 August 1945 Matsumae returned to Tokyo with the results of the investigation and submitted the report to the Emperor. The book "My Turbulent life in a Turbulent Century" by Dr. Shigeyoshi Matsumae, Published by Tokai University Press shows a photo of Matsumae carrying out the radiation measurements in Hiroshima in page 159.

Religion and education

While serving as an engineer in Tokyo, he attended Bible classes by

Family

• The father of Shigeyoshi Matsumae was the chief of a village, Kashima town, Kumamoto.^{[citation needed]} There was one elder brother, named Akiyoshi, who became a pharmacist and a judo champion (once, No. 1 in Japan) who helped Shigeyoshi financially. ^{[citation needed]}Akiyoshi built a training hall and Shigeyoshi also became a strong judoist.
• Tatsuro Matsumae, the first son of Shigeyoshi is the chief President of Tokai University. Norio Matsumae, the second son, was previously the President of Tokai University and Aogu Matsumae, the third son, was previously the President of Hokkaido Tokai University. Yoshiaki Matsumae, the first son of Tatsuro Matsumae is the vice President of Tokai University.

Bibliography

• Record of a 2nd Private Soldier Tokai University Press.
  ISBN 978-4-486-00338-0
• A Collection of Works by Shigeyoshi Matsumae in 10 volumes, Tokai University Press.
  • This includes Record of my discovery Exploring Denmark culture, Progress of Science and materialistic conception of history, My views on Politics in these present days of science, Science changes history, Record of a 2nd private soldier, Science, Technology and Thought, My Thought on Religion, Dialogues of Shigeyoshi Matsumae, Poems of Shigeyoshi Matsumae, My thought on modern culture, Let's live in young days (Collection of lectures of Matsumae at Bosei Juku, Revized edition of Electric Communications (Matsumae and Kitahara).
• Exploring Bushido Thoughts

My Turbulent life in a turbulent century 1982, by Dr.Shigeyoshi Matsumae, TOKAI UNIVERSITY PRESS,

• Grand Cordon of the Order of the Sacred Treasure (1971)
• Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun (1982)
• Senior third rank in the order of precedence
• Honorary degree at the
  Technical University Dresden
  (1979)
• Inducted into the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame (2022)

References

• Kumamoto Prefecture Encyclopedia Kumamoto Nichinichi Shinbun, 1982 p. 759
• Kimio Mori, Kumamoto Prefecture Modern Cultural Persons with Achievements Kumamoto Prefecture Educational Committee, 1989 p. 178-189
• Hisaya Shirai(edit) Matsumae Shigeyoshi - My Showa History Asahi Shinbun sha, 1987.
• Mamoru Sakamoto, Shishifunjin(With lionlike force)- Shigeyoshi Matsumae Story Nishinippon Shimnun sha,1983.
  ISBN 4-8167-0049-8