Makoto Nishimura
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Biography
Makoto was born on March 26, 1883, in Matsumoto, Nagano Prefecture.
During his life, he served as an example for early environmentalists. When he discovered a tree growing on his plot of land, he refused to cut it down. Instead he decided to build his house around it so that it grew in his living room.
Over the years, he worked as a professor at Hokkaido University as well as taught in Kyoto and Manchuria. He also studied botany at Columbia University.[2]
References
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Kovacic, Mateja (2025). "The first symbiotic multispecies robot: Gakutensoku's symbiotic cosmos". History and Technology. doi:10.1080/07341512.2025.2571289. ISSN 0734-1512.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Tim Hornyak. "The face that launched a thousand robots". The Japan Times. Retrieved 2012-12-04.
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