Memorial Tributes Volume 9 (2001) / Chapter Skim
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His village was a poor mountain village, and the nearest middle school was eight kilometers away through narrow, mountainous paths. All his elder brothers took jobs in remote cities after they finished the six years of education at the village primary school.
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His second big challenge was development of a nonloaded cable carrier telephone system at a time when the world standard was the loaded cable system. The research for this national project started in 1932 and ended in 1939 with the completion of a sixchannel long-distance nonIoaded cable carrier telephone system with circuits between Tokyo and Shenyang, a central city in former Manchuria (now the northeastern part of the People s Republic of China)
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To change their military minci-set to a civilian, market-oriented mind-set, Dr. Kobayashi advised the president of NEC to dissolve the central laboratories and relocate them to business divisions.
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He always dreamed of the days when anyone in the world could talk to anyone else, overcoming geographical and language barriers. He watched tenderly the basic research activity for an automatic interpretation telephone system in the central laboratories.
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KO] I KOBAYASHI 173 trade frictions faced a crisis.
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