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Google Doodle Celebrates - Satoshi Kako’s 97th Birthday - 31 March Today's Doodle commemorates the 97th birthday of Japanese novelist and illustrator Satoshi Kako, who developed timeless children's books. His engineering and scientific expertise led him to add a new twist to each narrative to make them informative, entertaining, and interesting for Japanese youngsters. This day in 1926, Kako, whose real name was Satoshi Nakajima, was born in Kunitaka Village, Fukui Prefecture. As a child, he was surrounded by creative children who inspired him to pursue art. In 1948, Kako graduated from Tokyo Imperial University (now the University of Tokyo) with a degree in chemistry. He joined a theatre study club while in school and began writing scripts and building stage sets for children's shows. He obtained employment at a major Japanese chemical firm and organised traditional kamishibai (or play-card) plays for the children of his coworkers. 1959 saw the publication of Kako's fi...