Word: ryoichi
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Ryoichi Naito, the founder of Green Cross, came across an article in Der Spiegel while traveling in West Germany. The article outlined the research on artificial blood done by Dr. Robert Geyer, head of the Nutrition Department at Harvard Medical School, Dr. Naito immediately caught a plane a Boston and dropped in on Dr. Geyer. As the saying goes. "The rest is history...
That view sat well with Ryoichi Sasakawa, 81, famous in Japan as a philanthropist and longtime prewar supporter of conservative causes, an accused war criminal who spent three years in jail after World War II, and a multimillionaire whose fortune was made by, among other things, staging hydroplane races on which eager Japanese bettors could wager. Sasakawa disclosed that he had sponsored the salvage ship Teno and its team of divers at a cost of $13.6 million. The ingots and whatever else was found were his, said Sasakawa, who estimated that treasure worth no less than $36 billion was aboard...