Yoshiro Okabe (岡部 芳郎, Okabe Yoshiro?, April 9, 1884–March 17, 1945) was the only Japanese assistant of Thomas Edison. He worked at Menlo Park from 1904 to 1914. After returning to Japan, Okabe made the short sound film Katyusha (leading actress:Sumako Matsui) using Edison's kinetoscope. He died in 1945 in Kobe in a U.S. air strike.
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