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unusual facts about Asahi


Asahi, Okayama

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


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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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).

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.

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.

Ryouta Murai

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

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”.

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.

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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