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unusual facts about Asahi, Okayama



117 series

113 series cars were used in this role from 1972 along with 153 series express cars that had become surplus as a result of the opening of the Sanyō Shinkansen to Okayama.

The 300 subseries entered service on the Fukuchiyama Line, while shortened consists began running on the Nara Line, Kosei Line, Kusatsu Line, and on the Sanyō Main Line in the Okayama area on the Sunliner service.

Asahi Breweries

Asahi Breweries' headquarters in Tokyo were designed by French designer Philippe Starck.

Asahi Glass Co.

Among performance chemicals, Asahi makes fluoropolymer films, including Fluon ETFE laminate, famous for its use as the external surface of the Allianz Arena football stadium, built in 2005 and the world's largest structure made out of ETFE.

ASAHI Net

;:ASAHI Net subscribers have the option of donating 100 yen to the effort to end world hunger through the World Food Programme organization as part of the United Nations.

Due to collaborations with literary writers such as Yasutaka Tsutsui, and mutual integration with services such as IBM Japan’s People service, Asahi PC Net became known as a humanistic network.

;:ASAHI Net supports several world-class literary writers, musicians and artists, including Ryū Murakami, Ryu Goto and Yasutaka Tsutsui through donations, online promotions and support services.

Asahi, Okayama

Asahi is a common name in Japan, for other uses see Asahi.

Boucheron

The distribution network of Boucheron is made of 34 shops located all over the world (Paris, Cannes, Saint-Tropez, Monaco, Beirut, London, San Francisco, Tokyo, Saitama, Yokohama, Fukuoka, Kyoto, Osaka, Hiroshima, Okayama, Nagoya, Taipei, Seoul, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur, Dubai, Baku, Moscow and Almaty) and over 100 certified retailers.

Chihiro Onitsuka

"Gekkou," a song that led Onitsuka to stardom, was initially featured as the closing theme for Trick, the successful TV drama series starring Yukie Nakama and Hiroshi Abe and aired on TV Asahi.

Emi

Mimasaka-Emi Station, a train station in Mimasaka, Okayama Prefecture, Japan

Flesh-Colored Horror

The table of contents lists all the stories as originally appearing in Halloween (magazine) a monthly manga magazine produced by Asahi Sonorama (朝日ソノラマ, Asahi Sonorama?), a Japanese manga, book, and magazine publishing company.

Frankenstein Conquers the World

While Frankenstein is on the run, he travels to many places, from Okayama (where he eats more animals) to Mount Ibuki, where his primitive childlike activities (throwing trees at birds and trying to trap a wild boar) end in disaster.

Hi Hi Puffy Bu

"Hi Hi Puffy Club", more accurately titled "Hi Hi Puffy Bu" (Hi Hi Puffy 部 Hi Hi Puffy Kurabu) is Puffy AmiYumi's reality television series, which premiered on TV Asahi on 5 July 2006.

Hiroto Kōmoto

Kōmoto was born in Okayama, Okayama Prefecture and graduated from the junior high school attached to the School of Education at Okayama University before graduating from the prefectural Sōzan High School.

Ikeda clan

Takamasa Ikeda, former head of the Okayama Ikeda house was a husband of Atsuko Ikeda, fourth daughter of Emperor Shōwa.

Jacob Beser

Tsutomu Yamaguchi - the only survivor acknowledged by the Japanese government to have been on the ground during both detonations (the Asahi Shimbun located 160 survivors).

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.

Katsuyama

Katsuyama, Okayama, was a town located in Maniwa District, Okayama Prefecture, Japan

Kenji Ebisawa

Engine Sentai Go-onger as Gunpei Ishihara/Go-On Black (TV Asahi, 2008)

Kenjiro Okazaki

He is also active as a theoretician and critic, and is the author or co-author of several books, including Renaissance: Condition of Experience (Chikuma, 2001), featuring his analysis of Filippo Brunelleschi, Ready for Painting! (Asahi Press, 2005), a dialogue with the artist Hisao Matsuura, and Articulation of Arts: technological analyses (FilmArt, 2007).

Kinoshita Rigen

His ashes were divided between the Kinoshita family temple of Daiko-ji in Okayama and Yanaka Cemetery in Tokyo.

Kishor Parekh

Parekh's work appeared in numerous national and international publications including National Geographic, Paris Match, Sunday Times, Time magazine, Stern, Popular Photography and Asahi Graphic.

Kouhei Takeda

He is best known for his roles as Kohei Kitahanada in Fuji TV's Hanazakari no Kimitachi e/Ikemen Paradise drama, Otoya Kurenai in TV Asahi's tokusatsu series Kamen Rider Kiva, and the voice of Vaan in Final Fantasy XII.

Mirei Shigemori

Shigemori was born in Kayō, Jōbō District, Okayama Prefecture, and in his youth was exposed to lessons in traditional tea ceremony and flower arrangement, as well as landscape ink and wash painting.

Mizuno Open

It was played at the Setonaikai Golf Club in Okayama from 1998 to 2006 and also in 2011 and at the Tokinodai Country Club in Ishikawa from at least 1985 to 1997.

Munsingwear Open KSB Cup

Since 2004, the tournament has been played at the Tojigaoka Marine Hills Golf Club in Okayama.

OAK Racing

A partnership with Mazda Automobiles France was formed at this time with OAK Racing entering two Pescarolo-Mazda LMP2s in the 2009 Le Mans Series and Le Mans 24 Hours as well as participating in the two Asian Le Mans Series events at Japan’s Okayama circuit.

Okayama 4th district

It is located in central coastal Okayama and covers the majority of the city of Kurashiki and the (as administrative unit: former) county of Tsukubo that has only one remaining municipality: Hayashima town.

Pentax

The name "Pentax" was originally a registered trademark of the East German VEB Zeiss Ikon (from "Pentaprism" and "Contax") but, as all Germans patents were annulled with the country's defeat, the name "Pentax" was taken by the Asahi Optical company in 1957.

Portrait of Lady Meux

Ellis, George R. and Marcia Morse, A Hawaii Treasury, Masterpieces from the Honolulu Academy of Arts, Tokyo, Asahi Shimbun, 2000, 98 & 208-9.

Pune-Okayama Friendship Garden

It was built in inspiration of 300-year-old Okayama's Kōraku-en Garden, so it is also called as Pune-Okayama Friendship Garden.

Ryouta Murai

2009 - Kamen Rider Decade (Tokusatsu series, TV Asahi) as Kamen Rider Kuuga/Yusuke Onodera

Sanyo Broadcasting

RSK radio was broadcasting slightly some programs of JFN(s), such as "Masaharu Fukuyama's SUZUKI Talking FM", until FM Okayama of JFN affiliation was opened in April, 1999.

Suginami, Tokyo

Microsoft has a branch office in the Daitabashi Asahi Seimei Building in Izumi.

Tokushi Kasahara

However, it was pointed out by Ikuhiko Hata that the photograph was originally published in the Asahi Graph on 10 November 1937 and actually said it was “a group of girls of the ‘Rising Sun’ village who are returning to the village from farm work with the assistance of our troops”.

Tomiko Satō

Satō was sharing Guo's grief over the death of his friend, and once Guo returned to Okayama, they started regularly exchange letters.

Trider G7

Up until now, the series airing on TV Asahi in this timeslot had their soundtracks composed by Takeo Watanabe and Yuushi Matsuyama, but the two were busy working on the soundtrack for the theatrical adaptation of Mobile Suit Gundam, so Kurando Kaya filled in the role.

Ugetsu Hakua

On April 6, 2004, the anime series Burst Angel premiered on Japanese television, broadcast by Asahi National Broadcasting Company.

William Rush and His Model

Ellis, George R. and Marcia Morse, A Hawaii Treasury, Masterpieces from the Honolulu Academy of Arts, Tokyo, Asahi Shimbun, 2000, 110 & 211-2.

Yoshinaga

Yoshinaga, Okayama, former town located in Wake District, Okayama, Japan

Yūko Kotegawa

She returned to Asahi and jidaigeki in the title role in two series with the title Tōyama no Kin-san vs. Onna Nezumi opposite Hiroki Matsukata (1997 and 1998).


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