Jūrō Oka
Jūrō Oka (岡 十郎, Oka Jūrō, July 27, 1870 - January 8, 1923), the "father of Japanese whaling"[1][2][3] was one of many Japanese students sent abroad to the United States and Europe by the Meiji government to bring modern whaling techniques to Japan at the close of the 19th century. Oka traveled through Norway, Finnmark, the Azores and Newfoundland acquiring whaling knowledge and equipment, and upon returning to Japan established a whaling company, Nihon En'yō Gyogyō K.K.[4]
References
- ^ Japan Whaling
- ^ John Newton (1 December 2012). A Savage History: A history of whaling in the Southern and Pacific Oceans. NewSouth. pp. 240–. ISBN 978-1-74224-632-1.
- ^ Richard Ellis (1992). Men and whales. Robert Hale. p. 266.
- ^ Johan Nicolay Tønnessen; Arne Odd Johnsen (15 March 1982). The history of modern whaling. University of California Press. pp. 135–. ISBN 978-0-520-03973-5. Retrieved 28 June 2011.