Tachu Naito (1886 to 1970) was a Japanese architect, engineer and professor, remembered as a father of earthquake-proof design in Japan. He was born in what is now Minami-Alps in Yamanashi Prefecture, studied architecture at Tokyo Imperial University under Sano Toshikata, graduating in 1910, and became a professor at Waseda University in 1913. During a stay in America from 1916 he devised his seismic theory of the earthquake-proof wall, a shear wall idea that came to him while watching luggage shift on a moving train. The Industrial Bank of Japan's main office, engineered with that theory, withstood the 1923 Great Kanto earthquake. He also designed many broadcasting and observation towers, among them the Nagoya TV Tower, Tsutenkaku, the Sapporo TV Tower, Beppu Tower and the Tokyo Tower.
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Naitō was born on 12 June 1886, in Minami-Alps, Yamanashi Prefecture.
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He was a father of earthquake-proof design
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was a Japanese architect, engineer, and professor
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Naitō was born on 12 June 1886, in Minami-Alps, Yamanashi Prefecture.
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He studied with Sano Toshikata and graduated in 1910.
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