Hideo Shima, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Hideo Shima

Japanese engineer

Date of Birth: 20-May-1901

Place of Birth: Ōsaka, Ōsaka Prefecture, Japan

Date of Death: 18-Mar-1998

Profession: engineer

Nationality: Japan

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Hideo Shima (? ??, Shima Hideo, 20 May 1901 – 18 March 1998) was a Japanese engineer and the driving force behind the building of the first bullet train (Shinkansen).Shima was born in Osaka in 1901, and educated at the Tokyo Imperial University, where he studied Mechanical Engineering.
His father was part of a group of officials that had built up Japan's emerging railroad industry.