was a writer and overseas journalist for the ''

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'' newspaper. He also wrote under the

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Amanojaku. He had been educated at Washington Grammar School,

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, also attending

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,and

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. He worked on a Ph. D. at

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in 1921 and attended the

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in 1922/3. He was a fluent speaker of English. He worked for the ''Osaka Mainichi Shimbun'', under the presidency of Shingoro Takahashi. He spent some time in

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. On one particular goodwill there voyage, with the support of the newspaper, he accompanied Dr. Kenichi Abe and a group of 10 Japanese businessmen. The group was in Australia for about six weeks, but Sato remained for 5 months. He gathered material for a trade relations booklet, ''Japan, Australia and New Zealand''. It was published by the ''Osaka Mainichi in 1936'', in both English and Japanese editions.

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Japanese journalists Japanese writers History of the foreign relations of Japan 1891 births 1967 deaths 20th-century journalists University of Southern California alumni Columbia University alumni Humboldt University of Berlin alumni {{japan-journalist-stub