death_place death_date birth_place birth_date article_title name occupation
tokyo , japan 18 march 1998 osaka , japan 20 may 1901 hideo shima
 hideo shima engineer , chief engineer of shinkansen project
hideo shima

shima was born in osaka in 1901 , and educated at the tokyo imperial university , where he studied engineering .
his father was part of a group of officials that had built up japan 's emerging railroad industry .
