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 Director of the Institute of Egyptology,[1] Waseda University, Tokyo.
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. [2]
He is the first president of an online college Cyber University.
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- Non-destructive pyramid investigation, 1987
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