High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Yoshiro Okabe was a Japanese engineer who is known for the only assistant of Thomas Edison. He worked at Menlo Park from 1904 to 1914. After going back Japan, Okabe made the short Sound film Katyusha (the leadng actress:Matsui Sumako)using Edison's kinetoscope. He died in 1945 in Kobe in a U.S. air strike. Okabe was appointed reserve second sublieutenant of Imperial Japanese Navy and became the first mate on an English ship. He caught typhoid fever while the ship was at anchor in New York. After recovering , he remained in the US, and got job at Edison institute in Menlo Park, New Jersey. Okabe was not only an engineer for Edison, but also acted as his bodyguard by using his Jiujitsu. Edison liked him very much, and brought him to camping with Henry Ford, Harvey Samuel Firestone etc.

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