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The courtyard at Chikkou Works displays part of a temple bell. The signboard reads, “Hitachi Zosen Chikkou Works started production of Buddhist temple bells in June 1946.
The bronze statue of Hunter was erected to coincide with the relocation of the head office to Sakurajima on October 1, 1916.
From the entrance of the Nanko head office, make your way to the elevator hall and you will find a bronze statue of E.H.Hunter.
In the decade before and after 1890, a major issue in Japanese diplomacy was the amendment of unequal treaties.
E.H.Hunter entered into eternal rest at eight in the evening on June 2, 1917. He was 75 years old.
E.H.Hunter founded Osaka Iron Works in 1881, when maritime transport was entering the mainstream of passenger and cargo transport.
A short distance from the bustle of the shoppers and tourists around Kobe's Motomachi Station unfolds a townscape with a leisurely Western ambience-the former Kobe Foreign Settlement.
The blooming of romance between E.H.Hunter and Aiko Hirano is described in dramatic detail in Morio Sanjo's novel Yoake no Hunter (Hunter in The Dawn).
E.H.Hunter set up Osaka Iron Works, the predecessor of Hitachi Zosen, on the Ajigawa River in Osaka in 1881.
