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unusual facts about Akō, Hyōgo



Aboshi

Aboshi Station, a train station in Himeji, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan

Alleycat Rock: Female Boss

Tough girl biker Ako (pop singer Akiko Wada) comes across Mei (Meiko Kaji) and her girl gang (the Alleycats/Stray Cats) as they are about to have a knife fight in Shinjuku, Tokyo with another gang of girls.

Army Knowledge Online

AKO is an integrated suite of a number of commercial-off-the-shelf products including the Appian Business Process Management (BPM) Suite technology.

Asano clan

The Asano name is perhaps most well known as a result of the story of the Forty-seven Ronin, whose lord was Asano Naganori, the head of a branch of the family enfeoffed at Ako (Harima Province, 53,000 koku).

Budoy Marabiles

Billed by the show as the "M-16 of Samar", he is best known as the vocalist of the Cebu-based reggae band Junior Kilat, which is responsible for songs such as Original Sigbin (In Bisaya mythology, Sigbin is a mythical creature), K Fyne (Okay, Fine) and Ako si M-16 (I am M-16), which bagged the Best Song in the 2005 NU Rock awards sponsored by the Manila-based rock radio station NU 107.

During his stay in the house, he composed (and performed) some songs that are in the Pinoy Big Brother Celebrity Edition soundtrack: Budoy Ako, a Visayan adaptation of Pinoy Ako, and Maligo Na Jam, based on his "Maligo na" (Take a bath already) rap, together with fellow housemates Rico Robles and Roxanne Barcelo.

George Darko

George Darko (born 1951, Akropong) is a Ghanaian highlife musician, who introduced the Burger-highlife with his first hit "Ako ti brofo" (Even Parrots speak English), which was very popular in the early 1980s.

Gloria Sevilla

In 1974, she and daughter Suzette Ranillo made history as the first real-life mother and daughter to win as Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress in the FAMAS Award for the movie Gimingaw Ako (I Miss You).

Hashidate

One of the services making up JR West's "Big X Network", it connects Kyoto Station, Amanohashidate Station and Toyooka Station via the Sanin Main Line and Kitakinki Tango Railway's Miyafuku Line and Miyazu Line.

I've Been Working on the Railroad

This tune is used at the stations on the Hanshin Electric Railway Lines (except Umeda Station and Osaka Namba Station) to announce arriving trains and is similarly used at Okayama Station on the Sanyo Line (for Kamigori and Himeji) and the Ako Line (for Banshu-Ako) of West Japan Railway Company.

Ibaraki-dōji

Concerning Shuten-doji, there are stories that he was born at the base of Mount Ibuki among other famous stories, but concerning Ibaraki-doji, there are stories that he was born in Amagasaki, Hyogo, and Ibaraki, Osaka among other places, and documented from various sources like the Settsu Meisho Zue (摂津名所図会), Settsuyou Kendan (摂陽研説), and Setuyou Gundan (摂陽群談).

Imazu

Hankyū Imazu Line, 9.3 km long commuter rail in Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan

Ipaghiganti Mo Ako...!

Ipaghiganti Mo Ako...! ("Avenge Me…!") is a 1914 Tagalog-language novel written by Filipino novelist and dramatist Precioso Palma.

Kaibara

Kaibara, Hyōgo, a former town located in Hikami District, Hyōgo, Japan.

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

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).

Nanette Medved

Some of the movies done by Medved when she was still active in show business were: Dito Sa Pitong Gatang, Isang Bala Ka Lang, Iukit Mo Sa Bala, Sa Diyos Lang Ako Susuko, Tumbasan Mo Ng Buhay, Kung May Gusot Walang Lusot, Huwag Mong Salingin Ang Sugat Ko, Hiram Na Mukha, Narito Ang Puso Ko, Sa Kabila ng Lahat, and she played as Darna under Viva Films, directed by Joel Lamangan.

Ōishi Yoshio

In January 1703 (by the old Japanese calendar, the 12th month, 14th day) he, with 46 other Akō ronin, attacked Kira at his residence in the Honjo neighborhood of Edo.

Phosphofructokinase deficiency

It was named after the Japanese Physician, Seiichiro Tarui (1927- ), who was a native of Hyōgo Prefecture in Japan.

Piolo Pascual


Nagmamahal Ng Tunay
There For Me
Wagas
Turuan Mo Ako
To Hear You Say You Love Me (feat. Jim Brickman)
Ikaw Pa Rin
Dahil Ikaw
Why Can’t We Be Together?

Rhap Salazar

Domingo
Ako Ang Bukas
Shanne Velasco
Follow Your Dreams by Gian Barbarona
I'll Be There
Charice Pempengco
Pasulyap-sulyap by Rachel Pegason
Tara Tena by Sam Concepcion
Meron Ba?

Satsu

Satsu Station, a station in Kami, Mikata District, Hyōgo, Japan

Takijirō Ōnishi

Ōnishi′s ashes were divided between two graves – one at the Zen temple of Sōji-ji in Tsurumi, Yokohama, and the other at the public cemetery in former Ashida village in Hyōgo prefecture.

Uxfest

Sikth, PDHM, Electric Eel Shock, Aconite Thrill, Johnny Truant, JOR, The Blueprint, Hiding With Girls, Frowser, Twoday Rule, 17 Stitches, Ako, Kenisia, Project Abner, SiZE, Beecher, Lamb Quartet, Dopamine, Joski, coMA Kai, Needleye, Blind Eye Policy, Fog Donkey, Fourway Kill, My Pet Junkie, The Mirrormen, Severed State, Planet of Women, One Man Down, Lost for Words.

Yamaga Sokō

Hoshina, however, saw this attack as a potential challenge to Tokugawa authority itself, and Yamaga was subsequently exiled to stay with the Asano daimyo in the Akō domain (han), where his life intersects with the tale of the forty-seven ronin, which is later retold in the classic of Japanese literature Chūshingura.

Yōjirō

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


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