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Kaichi Watanabe (1858-1932), who is said to be the father of Japan civil engineering history, completed the Fourth Railway Bridge in Scotland (photo: upper row) that has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site and his image is printed on the right end of the Scottish £20 banknote now, and later founded many leading Japanese companies such as Keihan Electric Railway, Toyo Electric MFG, IHI Corporation and so on. 

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Through his philosophy and management, he has made greatly contributions to the development of Japan's civil engineering technology, the expansion of the railway network by introducing overseas technology in the railway field, and the promotion of research and development of purely domestic technology. 

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In addition, Shigezo Watanabe (1898~1970), the third son of Kaichi, ,who participated in the Boston cherry blossom viewing party when he was a student at Harvard University and MIT in 1919 (photo: Middle row),
is the man who had promoted as an engineer that the Tokyo Yamanote Express Electric Railway Plan and the subsequent Tokyo Suburban Electric Railway Plan, Abandoned by the Sino-Japanese War, which was licensed in 1927 as a concept to lay the Second Yamanote Line to the expanding capital of Tokyo (photo: lower row, track under construction : current Keio Inokashira Line) . 

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Our company was established in 2008 by a succeeding their enthusiasm in order to contribute to the further development of Japan's industry, which stagnated in the 2000s, and the small and medium-sized enterprises that are the foundation of Japan, with the pioneering spirit of these two people who contributed to the development of Japan as a modern nation. 

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