Akira Watanabe (Scouting)

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Commemorative plaque dedicated by Akira Watanabe, stating that Tenjinhama is the site of the first Boy Scouts of Japan camping trip attended by the Imperial Family

Script error: No such module "Nihongo". (December 25, 1901 – July 23, 2005) was the seventh National President of the Boy Scouts of Japan from 1974 to 2003, and served on the World Scout Committee of the World Organization of the Scout Movement.[1]

Background

A count/earl as a member of a Kazoku, he sat in the House of Peers and was known as the "last school friend of the Showa Emperor".

In 1977, Watanabe was awarded the 124th Bronze Wolf, awarded by the World Scout Committee for exceptional services to world Scouting, at the 26th World Scout Conference.[2] In 1979 he also received the highest distinction of the Scout Association of Japan, the Golden Pheasant Award.[3]

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