* July 11 – Kokichi Mikimoto, in Japan, develops the method to seed and grow cultured pearls.

Mikimoto had received a patent in 1896 for producing hemispherical pearls, or mabes, and a 1908 patent for culturing in mantle tissue, but he could not use the Mise-Nishikawa method without invalidating his own patents.

Mikimoto then altered his patent application to cover a technique to make round pearls in mantle tissue, which was granted in 1916.

Mikimoto promoted Japanese pearls in Europe and the USA to counteract falling prices.

He publicly burnt tons of low-quality pearls as a publicity stunt to establish a reputation that the Mikimoto company only sold high-quality cultured pearls.

In 1899, the first Mikimoto pearl shop opened in the fashionable Ginza district of Tokyo selling natural seed pearls and half round pearls.

Mikimoto had to constantly fight allegations that his pearls were only “ imitations ” of real pearls, despite scientific reports to the contrary.

Toba is the hometown of Mikimoto Kōkichi, who developed a method to cultivate pearls, and Tokushichi Mishima, who invented MKM steel.

* July 11-Kokichi Mikimoto, in Japan, develops the method to seed and grow cultured pearls.

* Nakakawachi District – on 1 April 1896, the Tanboku, Takayasu, Ōgata, Kawachi, Wakae, and Shibukawa districts, along with part of Shiki District ( Mikimoto Village ) were integrated, making the former Kawachi Province's central portion a single district.

* Minamikawachi District – on 1 April 1896, the Tannan, Asukabe, Furuichi, Yakami, Nishigori, and Ishikawa districts, along with part of Shiki District ( all but Mikimoto Village ) were integrated, making the former Kawachi Province's southern portion a single district.

After World War II Mikimoto opened in Paris, New York, Chicago, Boston, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Shanghai and Bombay, and was thus one of the first Japanese brands to attain an international presence and recognition.

Macross creators Mikimoto Haruhiko and Kawamori Shoji have stated that Minmay's popularity in both sides of the war is partially inspired by the song Lili Marleen, a German love song which was popular on both sides during World War II.

It is written by Yoshiyuki Tomino himself, the cover characters are drawn by Haruhiko Mikimoto which followed the character design of the TV series, but the inner cover mobile suit designs by Kazumi Fujita differ greatly from the TV series.

Today, pearl diving has largely been supplanted by cultured pearl farms, which use a process widely popularized and promoted by Japanese entrepreneur Kokichi Mikimoto.

was a Japanese entrepreneur who is credited with creating the first cultured pearl and subsequently starting the pearl industry with the establishment of his luxury pearl company Mikimoto.

In 1888, Mikimoto obtained a loan to start his first pearl oyster farm at the Shinmei inlet on Ago Bay in Mie prefecture with his wife and partner Ume.

Mikimoto did not know that government biologist Tokishi Nishikawa and a carpenter, Tatsuhei Mise, had each spent time in Australia and learned the secret to spherical pearl production from expatriate British marine biologist William Saville-Kent — inserting a piece of oyster epithelial membrane ( the lip of mantle tissue ) with a nucleus of shell or metal into an oyster's body or mantle causes the tissue to form a pearl sack.

The Crown was designed specifically for the pageant on Mikimoto Pearl Island in Japan with the Mikimoto crown and tiara being first used for Miss Universe 2002.

Preliminary designs were created for these story events in the production of the earlier works, but Flash Back 2012 was the first time that these events were animated ( The earlier preliminary designs were replaced with new designs by the original director / mechanical designer Shoji Kawamori, original character designer Haruhiko Mikimoto, and original mechanical designer Kazutaka Miyatake ).

Best known for its reputation as an art museum inside a shopping center, in November 2007, Northpark Center was named as one of the seven retail wonders of the modern world along with Neiman Marcus ’ store at Natick Collection in Massachusetts, Japan ’ s Mikimoto store in Ginza, England ’ s Bullring shopping center, Poland ’ s Złote Tarasy in Warsaw, Apple ’ s flagship in New York City and Italy ’ s Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II.

* 1858 – Kokichi Mikimoto, Japanese pearl farmer ( d. 1954 )

* 1893 – The first cultured pearl is obtained by Kokichi Mikimoto.

Despite the common misperception, Mikimoto did not discover the process of pearl culture.

Nishikawa was granted the patent in 1916, and married the daughter of Mikimoto.

Mikimoto was able to use Nishikawa's technology.

* 1954 – Mikimoto Kōkichi, Japanese businessman ( b. 1858 )

July 11: Kokichi Mikimoto | Mikimoto develops cultured pearl s.

* March 10 – Kokichi Mikimoto, Japanese pearl farm pioneer ( d. 1954 )

The company was awarded patents for pearl cultivation and in 1985 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the patent system, Mikimoto was selected as one of Japan's top 10 inventors.

The Mikimoto company was ranked as one of the worlds most luxury brands by WWD and Mikimoto Kokichi was considered one of the best Japanese financial leaders of the 20th century by Nihon Keizai Shimbun.

He is also known as the founder of Mikimoto Pharmaceuticals, a company specialising in beauty products containing pearl calcium.

Mikimoto Pearl Island is named after him.

Born as the first son of an udon shop owner in Toba, Shima Province ( present-day Mie prefecture ), Mikimoto left school at the age of 13 and sold vegetables to support his family.

Mikimoto building in Tokyo, Taishō period.

Mikimoto finally made arrangements to use Nishikawa's methods after 1916, and Mikimoto's business began to expand rapidly.

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the sly female cowbirds took instant advantage of nests without sentinels.

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The transition to other methods began as manufacturers took advantage of the opportunities that the aforementioned machining developments presented.

Their party was defeated ( 2 May 1182 ), but Andronikos Komnenos, a first cousin of Emperor Manuel, took advantage of these disorders to aim at the crown, entered Constantinople, where he was received with almost divine honours, and overthrew the government.

Johnson took advantage of this opportunity to express his strong views in favor of the measures in question, as well as popular instruction.

Many games took advantage of this, gaining storage by leaving non-graphical data in the disabled area.

Other companies took advantage of the SCC's ability to use external clocks to support higher transmission speeds up to 1 Mbit / s.

Arnulf took advantage of the problems in West Francia upon the death of Charles The Fat to secure the territory of Lorraine, which he converted into a kingdom for his son, Zwentibold.

Arnulf then took advantage of the fighting that followed between Odo and Charles in 894, taking territory from West Francia and transferring it to his dominion.

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Zeus appeared to her disguised as Artemis, or in some stories Apollo, gained her confidence, then took advantage of her ( or raped her, according to Ovid ).

It had the advantage that it was fairly well known to the young designers and computer hobbyists who took an interest in microcomputers.

In the late 2nd century, the Historia Augusta mentions that in the rule of Marcus Aurelius ( 161-80 ), an alliance of lower Danube tribes including the Bastarnae, the Sarmatian Roxolani and the Costoboci took advantage of the emperor's difficulties on the upper Danube ( the Marcomannic Wars ) to invade Roman territory.

Quickly rising to prominence among the Pro-Boers was David Lloyd George, a relatively new MP and a master of rhetoric, who took advantage of having a national stage to speak out on a controversial issue to make his name in the party.

They feel that the Western-Cape based Afrikaners — whose ancestors did not trek eastwards or northwards — took advantage of the republican Boers ' destitution following the Anglo-Boer War and later attempted to assimilate the Boers into a new politically based cultural label as " Afrikaners ".

One advantage Chaplin found in sound technology was the ability to record a musical score for the film ; he also took the opportunity to mock the talkies, opening City Lights with a squeaky, unintelligible speech that " burlesqued the metallic tones of early talky voices ".

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Meanwhile the Thai government, under the pro-Japanese leadership of Field Marshal Plaek Phibunsongkhram, took advantage of its position and invaded Cambodia's western provinces.

After several efforts, Spanish troops from Peru took advantage of the internecine strife to reconquer Chile in 1814, when they reasserted control by winning the Battle of Rancagua on October 12.

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