was a writer and overseas journalist for the '' Osaka Mainichi Shimbun'' 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 Australia. 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