Note to the German visitors to www.hirokoskitchen.com – Hiroko’s Kitchen Website

Posted on Apr 2, 2014 in Hiroko's Blog

First of all, thank you for visiting my website. My great grandfather, Toshio Shimbo, who was a physician in the rural town of Takada, NiigataPrefecture, northwest of Tokyo visited Germany in the late 19th century to acquire advanced medical study. He was thirty four years old and was already established himself as an respected and busy ophthalmologist in his rural town. In the late 19th century in that region of Japan there was a serious epidemic of eye disease that...

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