Sakuma Shozan's Telegraph

Sakuma Shozan, a student of Western learning, built a functional telegraph model in Japan in 1849 using translated European diagrams.
He foresaw the need for modernization to defend against foreign powers, but was assassinated in the 1860s for his pro-Western views.

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