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The Nobel Peace Prize is for a person who has done the most for mankind. The Nobel Peace Prize was created in 1895, November 27 by Alfred Nobel (“Facts on the Nobel Peace Prizes”). There have been 92 Nobel Prize winners sense 1901 thru 2011. Only on 19 occasions did the award not get past out. Those Dates were 1914 – 1918, 1923, 1924, 1928, 1932, 1939 – 1943, 1948, 1955 – 1956, 1966 – 1967, and also for 1972 (“Facts on the Nobel Peace Prizes”). The winners of the Nobel Peace Prize is selected by a series of events, the first step is that the invitation letters are sent out, second step is the dead line for submissions, third step is the preparation of a short list, fourth is the adviser review, the fifth step is that the Nobel Laureates are chosen and the last step is the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony ("Nomination and Selection of Peace Prize Laureates"). Eisaku Sato was one of the winners for the Nobel Peace Prize in the year 1974 ("Nobel Peace Prize Winners - the Full List | World News | Guardian.co.uk."). Eisaku Sato was born March 27, 1901 in Tabuse,Yamaguchi Prefecture,Japan.Eisaku graduated high school and entered Tokyo Imperial University( now called Tokyo University) and majored in German jurisprudence. He still lived in Japan when he received the Nobel Peace Prize. He was married to Hiroko Sato on February 23, 1926 they had two children, Ryutaro and Shinji. Eisakus hobbies were golf, fishing, and performing the traditional Japanese tea ceremony with his wife. Eisaku first contact with the political world was on his appointment to the post of Cheif Cabinet Secretary of the second Yoshida Cabinet in 1948. In 1949 he was elected to the House of Representatives and since then has held those following spots in the Government and Party posts. He lived a good life until he passed away; he died on June 3, 1975 in Tokyo, Japan ("Eisaku Sato - Biography"). If you would like to learn morn please follow the sites liste.

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