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unusual facts about Aoba-ku, Sendai



Aoba-ku, Sendai

Air China has an office on the 1st floor of the Sendai Honcho Park Building in Aoba-ku.

Bank of Iwate

Recently, the bank has opened branches in Sendai and Hachinohe; unfavorable business conditions forced the bank to close a branch in Sapporo.

Bitgoeul-daero

It opened on December 29, 2004 and the name was Sendai-ro Road(Hangul : 센다이로, Hanja or Japanese : 仙臺路), to celebrate forming a sister city between Gwangju, Korea and Sendai, Japan.

Brain Age Express

Kawamoto flew to Sendai, Japan to ask Dr. Ryuta Kawashima, the inspiration for the Brain Age series, to ask if this would be all right.

Brian Beshara

One of the highest achievements realized by the Lebanese national basketball team was their 74-73 victory over the French national basketball team on August 23, 2006 during the 2006 World Championship in Sendai, Japan.

Erica Kochi

Erica Kochi, (born 1979, in Sendai, Japan) is a humanitarian and a technologist who Co-Leads UNICEF's Innovation Unit, together with Christopher Fabian.

Frederick Molyneux

In the former role, he had responsibility for the Southern Archdeaconery based in Lolowai, Aoba (now called Ambae, but lived primarily in the Banks Islands.

Halfords

The Group use the following sub-brands as part of their portfolio - Bikehut, Boardman Bikes, Carrera bicycles, Apollo, Trax, Victoria Pendelton, Urban Escape, Exodus, Pampero, Sendai, Ripspeed.

IEEE Jun-ichi Nishizawa Medal

Nishizawa was professor, director of two research institutes and the 17th president at Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, and contributed important innovations in the fields of optical communications and semiconductor devices, such as laser and PIN diodes and static induction thyristors for electric power applications.

Japanese cruiser Agano

However, on November 2, 1943, while part of the fleet supporting the defense of Rabaul, Agano participated in a major action (the Battle of Empress Augusta Bay) against American units in which the cruiser Sendai and destroyer Hatsukaze were both sunk.

Japanese cruiser Aoba

On April 3, while moored at Kavieng, New Ireland, Aoba was bombed by Boeing B-17 Flying Fortresses of the Fifth Air Force's 43rd Bomb Group.

Japanese cruiser Sendai

At the time of the attack on Pearl Harbor, Sendai was engaged in escorting transports carrying Lieutenant General Tomoyuki Yamashita and the Japanese 25th Army to invade Malaya.

At the end of March, Sendai covered the landing of one battalion of the IJA's 18th Infantry Division at Port Blair, Andaman Islands.

Judicial system of Japan

They (Sapporo, Sendai, Tokyo, Nagoya, Osaka, Hiroshima, Takamatsu, and Fukuoka) serve defined circuits of several prefectures each; there are also "branch offices" in Akita, Kanazawa, Okayama, Matsue, Miyazaki, and Naha.

Kuni Takahashi

Originally from Sendai, Japan, Takahashi came to the United States to study photojournalism at the Maine Photo Workshops, the New England School of Photography in Boston and the Eddie Adams Workshop in New York.

Matsudaira Yoshikuni

Date Yoshikuni, lord of the Sendai Domain, who lived in the 19th century.

Matthew Seligman

Matthew has always played a black Fender Jazz bass as his first choice instrument, and in addition uses an Ibanez with a C-ducer contact mic placed on the neck, close to the neck/body junction, for his fretless work primarily with Thomas Dolby, but also Peter Murphy and, more recently, in an ambient collection recorded with Japan/Hong Kong based musician Jan Linton for the Sendai Earthquake relief fund, due to be released by Entropy Records in 2012.

Ryu Si-won

Then in November 2011, he held his 100th solo concert in Japan as part of his 16 concert tour in eight cities, including Yokohama, Nigata, Osaka, Sendai, Nagoya, and Fukuoka; with the final concert on 21 December at Saitama Super Arena.

Sakanoue no Tamuramaro

It is said that the famous Tanabata festivals and parades of Aomori prefecture (also celebrated in the city of Sendai in Miyagi prefecture), which draw over 3 million people to the prefecture a year, were popularized in remembrance of Sakanoue no Tamuramaro's campaign to subdue the tribal societies then living in Tōhoku.

Sasanishiki

Sasanishiki is a Japanese rice from Sendai, Japan.

Sendai River

The areas near the mouth of the Sendai are noted for plant species which thrive in sandy areas, notably Calystegia soldanella, the beach morning glory.

Sendust

Sendust is a magnetic metal powder that was invented by Hakaru Masumoto at Tohoku Imperial University in Sendai, Japan, about 1936 as an alternative to permalloy in inductor applications for telephone networks.

Senseki Line

June 1, 1952: Sendai – Sendai Higashi-Guchi section stops operation.

Shirasawa

Rikuzen-Shirasawa Station, JR East railway station located in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan

Shunji Isaki

After his promotion to captain in 1936, he was re-assigned to command the Sendai in 1938, followed by the Mogami, Jintsu, and Maya.

Tadao Oda

Oda wrote "Algebraic Geometry, Sendai, 1985" with Hisasi Morikawa, a former professor at Nagoya University.

Tetracene

In May 2007, researchers from two Japanese universities, Tohoku University in Sendai and Osaka University, reported an ambipolar light-emitting transistor made of a single tetracene crystal.

Tohoku Gakuin University

Kenichi Takahashi (Professional basketball player for the Sendai 89ers)

Tōzen-ji

In the Edo period, Tōzen-ji was considered the family temple of various clans, including the Date clan of Sendai, the Ikeda clan of Omi province, the Inaba clan of Usuki Domain in Bungo province, the Suwo of Shinshu, the Tamura of Ichinoseki, and the Mori clan of Saeki in Bungo.

Yagyū Shingan-ryū

Takenaga Hayato (竹永 隼人, dates of birth and death unknown), sometimes known as Takenaga Hayato Kanetsugu (Jikinyu), founded the Yagyū Shingan-ryū, which he taught primarily in what is now known as Sendai, Miyagi.


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