Forty years ago today, August 19, 1985 (July 4, 1985 in the lunar calendar), Miyazaki Shimin, a Japanese-Chinese friendship figure, died. Shimin Miyazaki (1902 - 1985), former president of Japan-China Friendship Association. People from Kumamoto Prefecture. Miyazaki Toten (who helped Sun Yat-sen establish the Alliance Society in Japan and served as an adviser to the Society). Graduated from Tokyo Imperial University. In his early years, he worked in an insurance company and participated in the company's "Masonic Union" and "Kanto Consumer Portfolio" activities. He was drafted into the army in 1937 and traveled to Shanghai with the Japanese invaders. In 1939, he retired from the army and returned to Japan. He operated a power plant in Shanghai in 1940 and returned to China in 1946. He has been engaged in Japan-China friendship activities since the 1950s. He has visited China many times. He has served successively as director, permanent director, vice president, and chairman of the Japan Friendship Association. He died of illness on August 19, 1985.?