was a Japanese

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famous for being the first to develop a Gastro-camera (a present-day Esophagogastroduodenoscope). His story was illustrated in the NHK TV documentary feature, "Project X: Challengers: The Development of a Gastro-camera Wholly Made in Japan". Sugiura graduated from Tokyo Polytechnic University in 1938 and then joined

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. While working at this company, he first developed an Esophagogastroduodenoscope in 1950. He died in 1986 at the age of 68.

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Mutsuo Sugiura, a Developer of the Gastroscope
20th-century Japanese engineers 20th-century Japanese inventors Japanese medical researchers 1918 births 1986 deaths People from Shizuoka Prefecture {{Japan-bio-stub