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Sakuji Yoshimura

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Sakuji Yoshimura (吉村 作治, Yoshimura Sakuji, born 1 February 1943) is a Japanese Egyptologist. He currently is Japan International University of Tokyo , He is a university president, professor emeritus at Waseda University, and visiting professor at Cyber University and TV personality.

In 1978, Yoshimura and his team built a miniature pyramid for a Nippon Television documentary series. They originally planned to build a scaled-down model of the Cheops Pyramid, but the cost of limestone forced them to reduce the size.[1]

He was the first president of an online college Cyber University.

Publications[edit]

  • Non-destructive pyramid investigation, 1987

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