Yoshiro Okabe, Date of Birth, Date of Death

Yoshiro Okabe

Japanese engineer

Date of Birth: 09-Apr-1884

Date of Death: 17-Mar-1945

Profession: engineer

Nationality: Japan

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Yoshiro Okabe (?? ??, Okabe Yoshiro, April 9, 1884 – March 17, 1945) was a Japanese engineer and an assistant of Thomas Edison.
He worked at Menlo Park from 1904 to 1914.
After returning to Japan, Okabe made the short sound film Katyusha (leading actress:Sumako Matsui) using Edison's kinetoscope.
He died in 1945 in Kobe in a U.S.
air strike.