Kyohei Yamane (New Earth-Forty Two)

Early Years
Kyohei Yamane was born in the small town of Ikuno, Hyōgo, Japan, where he was born to a poor family. At first Kyohei was thought to be destined to remain a farmer's son in till he began school, where he excelled in all the subjects, but most of all Biology and Paleontology.

When Kyohei became a teenager he was given an invitation to study in England at Cambridge University. Kyohei would take the invitation and would spend the next several years there studying to be both a Zoologist and Paleontologist.

After completing his studying in England, Kyohei would move back to Japan and eventually marry a woman, who gave birth to his only child, Emiko.

Second Sino-Japanese War & WWII
Just before the Second Sino-Japanese War began, Kyohei would move his family to England after receiving a warning from one of his friends in government warned him about him possibly be drafted into the military.

Kyohei would uses his connections he made in England to move to the country just before the war broke out. Kyohei would also use those connections to teach advance Biology at Cambridge.

Kyohei would eventually move back to Japan after WWII and join in the government's reconstruction plans.