Sanrio Hello Kitty Fukushima Noguchi Scientist Gotochi Mascot Strap Japan NEW

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View Sanrio Hello Kitty Fukushima Noguchi Scientist Gotochi Mascot Strap Japan NEW with current marketplace pricing, condition, product images and item details. Sanrio Hello Kitty "Gotochi" (Japanese regional limited) Fastener Mascot Charm Strap. Noguchi Hideyo was born in 1876 to a poor farming family in Inawashiro, Fukushima. Before he was two he fell into the open sunken hearth in the floor of the family house and burned his left hand so badly that the fingers fused together. Sanrio Hello Kitty "Gotochi" (Japanese regional limited) Fastener Mascot Charm Strap. Theme: Dr. Hideyo Noguchi of Fukushima - the bacteriologist on the banknote. Noguchi Hideyo was born in 1876 to a poor farming family in Inawashiro, Fukushima. Before he was two he fell into the open sunken hearth in the floor of the family house and burned his left hand so badly that the fingers fused together. In a farming village that injury was close to a sentence: he could not do field work. He went to school instead, and did well enough that his teacher and his classmates put together the money for surgery on the hand when he was sixteen. The operation gave him back partial use of it. The experience decided the rest of his life - he went to study under the surgeon who had operated on him, and qualified as a physician at twenty. In 1900 he left for the United States with almost nothing, worked at the University of Pennsylvania and then at the Rockefeller Institute in New York, and made his name on syphilis: in 1913 he demonstrated the bacterium in the brain tissue of paralysed patients, establishing the link between the infection and general paresis. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize several times. He died in the field. In 1928 he travelled to Accra on the Gold Coast, now Ghana, to work on yellow fever, contracted the disease himself and died there at fifty-one. The Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research in Accra carries his name to this day, and in Japan his portrait appeared on the 1,000-yen note from 2004 until the notes were redesigned in 2024. The house he was born in, and the hearth he fell into, are preserved as a memorial hall in Inawashiro. About this piece: Hello Kitty appears as Dr. Noguchi in a white lab coat with a flask and a microscope - the Gotochi design sold in his home prefecture of Fukushima. Condition: BRAND NEW, unopened, sealed on the original backing card. Please note: a retail price sticker is attached to the back of the card. Size: mascot approx. 4 cm; card approx. 10 cm. Lobster-clasp fastener - attach to bags, zippers, phones, keys, etc. 100% authentic Sanrio product, originally sold only in Japan. Careful packaging: the item is placed in a sealed poly bag, wrapped in bubble wrap, and shipped inside a sturdy small box to protect it during transit. A rare, discontinued regional Hello Kitty collectible. Ships carefully from Japan with tracking. Please see all photos as part of the description. Condition: New. Category: Collectibles › Animation Art & Merchandise › Animation Merchandise › Other Animation Merchandise. Brand: Hello Kitty.

Brand

Hello Kitty

Franchise

Hello Kitty

Country of Origin

China