Table of contents for Akira Aoyama : life of an engineer, 1878-1963 : I lived with the river, and will die with the river / by Tetsuro Takasaki.


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The Aoyama House
House of His Birth in Shizuoka Prefecture ............................   9
Grandfather, Chuhei as a Social Welfare Activist ................. 11
Family Members of the Aoyama House................ ............... 15
A Hyperbola of Life, Kigenji, Elder Brother and Akira, Younger Brother........ 19
Entrance into the Second Section in the Preparatory Course of Daiichi High School......... 23
Belief in Christianity
Kanzo  Uchimura  and  His Pupils ..................................... 27
Encounter with  Kanzo  Uchimura. .......... ........................... 31
Young Aoyama as Described in the Novel, 'Apostate' ...... ........... . 34
Aoyama's Respected Teacher, Isami Hiroi, a Pure-minded Engineer........ 35
Path  towards  Religious  Faith........................... ........... 38
Uchimura's Comments on Aoyama...................................... 40
Graduation from Tokyo Imperial University....................... 43
Engaged Himself in the Construction Work of the Panama Canal
Departure for Panama - in search of an illusion . ............ ... 47
Travel Expenses Covered by Borrowed Money......................... 51
Hardships in Seattle on the West Coast of America.. ........... .. 56
Condition of Panama in Those Days........................ ........ 59
To  New  York........................ ............................ 63
Professor Burr, Father of American Civil Engineering ........... . 64
New  York................... ....................................  66
Departure  for Panama............................................. 67
In the Far End of the Darkness: 7 Years in Panama  ............ .. 69
Brother, Kigenji Killed  in  Action .............................. 72
Monthly Pay of $125, Promoted to a Level Man.................. ... 75
Sudden  Return  to  Japan ............. ......................... 76
The Reality of the Panama Canal Construction.................. ... 78
Records of the Panama Canal Commission............................ 79
Appointed as an Engineer of the Ministry of Interior
Conditions  of  Employment...................................... 83
Violent River, The  Arakawa........ ..... ....................... 85
Conception of Arakawa Flood Control Channel ........................... ......................... 86
Marriage  with  Mutsu........ ...................................... 89
Appointed as the Chief of Arakawa Flood Control Channel and Iwabuchi Sluice
Gate  Project......... ...... ......... ........................   92
Great Earthquake of Kanto and Arakawa Flood Control Channel..................................... 97
Completion of Arakawa Flood Control Channel............................... .................... 99
River Improvement rather than Building Warships......................................................... 102
Collapse of Adjustable Water Gate at Shinanogawa / Okozu Water Divide.................... 104
Appointment as Head of Niigata Civil Engineering Branch Office ................................. 107
Enthusiasm of Chief Engineer Miyamoto.......................... ............. ............. 108
Private Life during the Niigata Period...................................................................... 111
Completion of Adjustable Water Gate Restoration Work at Okozu Divide..................... 114
Technical Director General of the Ministry of Interior - Period in Distress.................. 118
Expressing His Belief in National Defense by Civil Engineering Works........................ 121
The  226  Incident...................... ......................... 124
Appointed as the Chairman of the Japan Society of Civil Engineers............................... 125
Resignation from the Post of Technical Director General of the Ministry of Interior .......127
His Eldest Daughter Masa Traveled to America..................... ........................ 132
Life of Destitution During and After the War
Project to Explode the Panama Canal Locks.......................... ................ .................   135
Evacuation to Nagano.........                         ................139
Latter Years and Death
Life in His Latter Years ..........................                      ..............145
Please, Never Forget to  be Careful ...............................................................................  148
Peaceful  Death  .............................................................................. ................................ 150
Postscript...................................................................................................... ......................... ........... 153



Library of Congress subject headings for this publication: Aoyama, Akira, 1878-1963, Civil engineers Japan Biography