1. Shitagau Noguchi was a Japanese entrepreneur who founded the Nichitsu zaibatsu.
11 Facts About Shitagau Noguchi
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Shitagau Noguchi's company was dissolved under the American occupation after World War II, and its successor companies include the Chisso Corporation, and portions of Asahi Kasei, Sekisui Chemical Company, and Shin-Etsu Chemical.
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Shitagau Noguchi studied electrical engineering at the Tokyo Imperial University and was hired by Siemens in 1898.
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Shitagau Noguchi designed Japan's first commercial production plant for Calcium carbide in Sendai in 1903.
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Shitagau Noguchi learnt of this invention in a newspaper and realized that the method could be used to utilize the calcium carbide that his plant produced.
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Shitagau Noguchi went to Germany, and with the support of an acquaintance at Siemens obtained the patent rights, beating other, larger and better-known Japanese trading firms like Mitsui and Furukawa.
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Shitagau Noguchi produced ammonium sulphate out of the calcium cyanamide, because it was safer and better known.
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In 1921 Shitagau Noguchi bought a new technology for synthetic ammonia from an Italian, Luigi Casale.
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In 1926, with the collaboration of the Imperial Japanese Army, Shitagau Noguchi established "Chosen Electric Power" and "Chosen Chisso Hiryo".
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Shitagau Noguchi suffered from an intracranial hemorrhage while at Seoul in 1940, and began to withdraw from active involvement in his conglomerate, which by 1941 had invested 659 million Yen, 66 percent of the fixed capital in the Nichitsu Group, in Korea.
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In 1941, Shitagau Noguchi donated his personal fortune to The Korean Scholarship Foundation, dedicated to building schools, funding scholarships, and raising educational standards in Korea.