X-Nico

unusual facts about ''Araneus mitificus'' resting in its sanctuary in Chūō-ku, Kobe



A-Train

Map construction adds the ability to build custom maps and terrains, and included pre-built cities Tokyo, Yokohama, Nagoya, Kyoto, Osaka, Kobe.

Alexander Besher

Alexander Besher's formative years were in Japan where he grew up and lived for twenty years, graduating from Canadian Academy High School in Kobe and Sophia University in Tokyo.

Andreas Ulvo

He has with his own projects "Eple Trio", a Norwegian contemporary jazz trio playing their own original music, been on tour in Japan 2010, playing gigs in Tokyo, Chiba, Kobe, Kanazawa, Yokohama and Saitama.

Atago Maru

The Atago Maru was built as a general cargo freighter for the Japanese, and operated between Kobe / Yokohama and the west coast of the USA and Canada.

Backstage: Lakers

Top-ranked tennis player Novak Djokovic shoots around with the team before a game at STAPLES Center, and meets Kobe Bryant and Dwight Howard in the training room.

Behind-the-scenes footage of Kobe Bryant in the locker room immediately after his season-ending injury to his Achilles tendon with reaction from Gary Vitti and Head physical therapist Dr. Judy Seto.

Chinese gunboat Tsao-kiang

On 26 October, she was transferred from the Imperial Japanese Navy to the control of the Japanese Home Ministry, and was used as a guard boat in Kobe.

Cosmo Oil Company

Cosmo traces its corporate roots to Maruzen Petroleum (丸善石油株式会社), a company established in 1931, although the oil business operated by Maruzen was originally established by Zenzo Matsumura in Kobe in 1907.

D'scover

The concert tour will begin on March 23 at Kobe's World Memorial Hall and will end on June 18 at Kanagawa's Yokohama Arena.

It was also announced that he would be holding his first solo concerts at Kobe’s World Memorial Hall from March 23 to the 24th and the Tokyo Nippon Budokan from March 30 to the 31st to promote the album.

Earthquake

Haruki Murakami's short fiction collection after the quake depicts the consequences of the Kobe earthquake of 1995.

Edward Bramwell Clarke

His grave is at the Kobe Municipal Foreign Cemetery in Kobe, Japan.

Edwin McClellan

McClellan was born in Kobe, Japan, in 1925 to a British father, an early representative of Lever Brothers in Japan, and a Japanese mother, Teruko Yokobori.

France–Japan relations

A fight erupts in Akashi between 450 samurai of Okayama Domain and French sailors, leading to the occupation of central Kobe by foreign troops.

Great Hanshin earthquake

The Kobe Luminarie, a small city of Christmas lights, is set up in the middle of Kobe City, as well as near Shin-Kobe Station every December in commemoration of the earthquake.

Hemigrapsus takanoi

A study of hull fouling animals on ships in Hamburg Dockyard and Bremerhaven at the time found six specimens of H. takanoi on the car-carrying ship SPICA, which travelled between the Asian ports of Tokyo, Osaka, Kobe and Pusan, and Europe.

Hidari

Hidari (ヒダリ) is a rock band from Kobe, Japan, known for its combination of modern rock and retro electronic sounds.

Higashi-Hanazono Station

When the large events are held at Kintetsu Hanazono Rugby Stadium, part of express trains running both direction and part of rapid express trains running for Osaka Namba and Kobe stop at the station (examples: the National High School Rugby Tournament games, the international rugby football games, the Japan Top League games (Kintetsu Liners, when crowded))

Hoshino Tenchi

After his house was destroyed in the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake, he moved to Ashiya, Hyōgo, near Kobe, where he continued to teach Japanese calligraphy.

Hyōgikai

Ritsuta Noda was elected Hyōgikai chairman at the Kobe meeting.

I'm Not That Guy

He enticed Marshall to have a meal by claiming that the restaurant offers "Kobe lobster" - lobster fed with Kobe beef.

Ibaraki Airport

At the time of opening, Ibaraki offered two flights, an Asiana service to Seoul, South Korea, and to Kobe in western Japan, by Skymark Airlines.

Japanese cruiser Maya

It shares its name with the early Japanese gunboat Maya, and per Japanese naval naming conventions, is named after a mountain, specifically Mount Maya outside of Kobe.

Japanese seaplane tender Kamikawa Maru

The ship was initially built at Kawasaki's Kōbe Shipyard and launched on 13 December 1936 as a merchant vessel for the Kawasaki Kisen K. K. Line.

Japanese seaplane tender Kiyokawa Maru

The ship was built at Kawasaki's Kōbe Shipyard and launched on 13 December 1936 as a merchant vessel for the Kawasaki Kisen K. K. Line.

Joe Cipriano

From 1987 to 1992, Cipriano produced and hosted two shows that aired in Tokyo, Yokohama, Osaka and Kobe, Japan: the L.A. Express and Toyota California Classics.

Józef H. Przytycki

In 1987, he and Pawel Traczyk published "Invariants of links of Conway type" (Kobe J. Math. 4, 115−139, 1987), which included a description of what is now called the HOMFLY(PT) polynomial.

Kimiko Matsuzaka

Born in Kobe either February 10, or October 21, 1969, Kimiko Matsuzaka was attending Otsuma Women's University when she was scouted by AV director Toru Muranishi.

Kobe Airport

In 2013, Kobe mayor Tatsuo Yada endorsed a proposal to consolidate the management of the three Kansai region airports by adding Kobe Airport to the planned sale in 2014 of operating concessions at Itami and Kansai, although the Nihon Keizai Shimbun reported this to be unlikely given the advanced state of negotiations surrounding the concessions.

On February 2, 2006, Kobe Airport Station (神戸空港駅) was connected to Sannomiya Station in central Kobe by an extension of the existing Port Liner automated guideway transit system, using 2000 series trains as well as some older 8000 series trains (older trains being gradually replaced by newer 2000 ones).

Kobe Station

# Kōsoku Kōbe Station - (高速神戸駅) on the Hanshin Railway Kobe Kosoku Line and the Hankyu Railway Kobe Kosoku Line in Chuo-ku, Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture

Kwansei Gakuin University

Kwansei Gakuin was founded in 1889 in Kobe, Japan by Dr. Walter Russell Lambuth (later Bishop), a missionary of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South (MEC-S), USA, with the aim of training missionaries and educating young people based on the principals of Christianity.

Mac Yasuda

He started off running an English language school in Kobe, Japan, in the 1970s and eventually became one of the largest vintage guitar dealers/collectors in the United States and an executive in the organization of Akira Tsumura, the heir to the Japanese Tsumura Corporation built on their bath salt "basukurin" which is a household name over there and who was disgraced in an abuse of corporate office scandal in 1997.

Marshall Thundering Herd men's basketball

Kobe Bryant wore No. 8 his first few seasons in the NBA because that's the number D'Antoni wore when he played with Kobe's father in Italy.

Mass of the Fermenting Dregs

Mass of the Fermenting Dregs was formed in 2002 in Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture, with the original all-female lineup of Natsuko Miyamoto, Chiemi Ishimoto and Reiko Gotoh.

Minamoto no Yoshitsune

Yoshitsune defeated and killed his rival cousin Minamoto no Yoshinaka at the Battle of Awazu in Ōmi Province in the first month of 1184 and in the next month defeated the Taira at the Battle of Ichi-no-Tani in present day Kobe.

Nada Station

This station is located near Iwaya Station of the Hanshin Main Line, and an entrance to HAT Kobe (includes Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Hyogo International Center of JICA, WHO Kobe Center and Disaster Reduction and Human Renovation Institution).

NBA Courtside 2: Featuring Kobe Bryant

NBA Courtside 2: Featuring Kobe Bryant is a basketball video game developed by Left Field Productions and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo 64.

Nh. Dini

In 1960 she married Yves Coffin, French consul to Kobe, Japan.

Olivier Auber

This same work in 1988 became the central concept of a monumental, architectural and technological project, one of the seven winners of the international competition for the creation of the "France-Japan Monument" on Awaji Island in the Bay of Kobe, launched under the aegis of François Mitterrand.

Pacific Grand Prix

Both races were held at the Tanaka International Aida circuit (now Okayama International Circuit), a slow, twisty 2.3-mile track deep in the countryside in Aida (near Kobe), Japan.

SS Ural Maru

She was completed in 1929 by the Mitsubishi Nagasaki Shipyards and was in regularly scheduled service between Kobe and Osaka in Japan and the port of Dairen in the Kwantung Leased Territory on the Asian mainland.

Sulaymani

He later moved to Japan to help his father in business and lived in Kobe for some time.

The Portopia Serial Murder Case

Although the story of the game is fictional, it is set in real Japanese cities; mainly Kobe, in addition to a few sequences in Kyoto and Sumoto.

Tsubasa

Tsubasa Oya (born 1986), Japanese football player currently playing for Vissel Kobe

Tyler Haws

And when asked to name their favorite players, the popular choice was usually Kobe and LeBron.

Yōjirō

Yojiro Terada (born 1947), Japanese racing driver from Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture

Za Kabuki

On 11 September 2001, a troupe from Kobe's Konan University returned the favour by performing at the ANU's Llewellyn Hall.


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