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Satsuma Students Statue-October 2024

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Oct 27, 2025

　　This statue and landmark commemorates the students from Satsuma (the feudal name for Kagoshima) who went to study Western technology in the UK in 1865. Their mission was said to be the spark of Japan's industrial revolution.

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