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unusual facts about Fujisawa, Kanagawa


IBM 3767

IBM 3767 was developed by IBM Systems Development Division's Fujisawa (later Yamato) laboratory in Japan.


Aikawa

Aikawa, Kanagawa is a town located in Aiko District, Kanagawa, Japan

Annual BCI Research Award

Y. Hashimotoa, T. Otab, M. Mukainob, J.Ushibac (aDepartment of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Kitami Institute of Technology, Kitami, Hokkaido, JP, bDepartment of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Asahikawa Medical University Hospital, Asahikawa, Hokkaido, JP, cDepartment of Biosciences and Informatics, Faculty of Science and Technology, Keio University, Yokohama, Kanagawa, JP)

Ayaka Hirahara

"Sailing My Life" (featuring label mate Norimasa Fujisawa), from the album "my Classics 2", is the official OST for the Japan release of the Disneynature film Oceans.

Center-Kita Station

It is 37.3 kilometers from the terminus of the Blue Line at Shōnandai Station and 5.7 kilometers from the terminus of the Green Line at Nakayama Station.

Center-Minami Station

It is 36.4 kilometers from the terminus of the Blue Line at Shōnandai Station and 4.8 kilometers from the terminus of the Green Line at Nakayama Station.

Charles Lennox Richardson

After Richardson met Woodthorpe Charles Clarke, an old friend from Shanghai, they joined fellow merchant William Marshall, and Marshall's sister-in-law Margaret Watson Borradaile to go on a sightseeing ride via nearby Kanagawa town towards the temple of Kawasaki Daishi.

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.

Half-Minute Hero

They include Toshihiko Takamizawa, Yoshino Aoki, Hideki Asanaka, Kakeru Ishihama, Hiroyuki Iwatsuki, Yuzo Koshiro, Motoi Sakuraba, Koji Hayama, Norihiko Hibino, Takushi Hiyamuta, Kenji Fujisawa, Hiromi Mizutani, Yasumasa Yamada, Yasuo Yamate, Biei Morioka, Toru Nakagawa, Minako Adachi, and Megumi Komagata.

Hokuriku Bank

In addition to the Hokuriku region, the bank has branches in Kyoto, Osaka, Niigata, Nagano, Tokyo, Kanagawa, Gifu, Aichi, and Hokkaidō.

IBM System/360 Model 40

The IBM System/360 Model 40 was developed and manufactured at IBM's facility in Poughkeepsie, U.S.A.: manufactured in Mainz, Germany; and manufactured in Fujisawa, Japan.

Ishida Station

Aikō-Ishida Station, a railway station in Kanagawa, on the Odakyū Odawara Line

Izumi Sakai

Graduating from Shoin Women's College (now Shoin University) in Atsugi City, Kanagawa, Sakai worked in a real estate company office for two years before being scouted by Stardust Promotion.

Katase River

The Katase is an approximately 3-kilometer-long segment of the river from Kawana (川名), Fujisawa, where the Sakai River (境川) and Kashio River join, to a point at Enoshima Island, where the river flows into Sagami Bay.

Kodomonokuni Theme Park

It can be accessed by train from the Tokyu Corporation's Kodomonokuni Line, Kodomonokuni Station, or from Aobadai Station or Tsurukawa Station by bus.

Lin Onus

The image of the wave is borrowed from The Great Wave of Kanagawa (1832), by Japanese printmaker, Katsushika Hokusai.

Mikio Oda

In the final years of his life, Oda moved from his home at Aburatsubo in Yokosuka, Kanagawa to a nursing home in Kugenuma (Fujisawa, Kanagawa).

Naoko Kijimuta

Naoko Kijimuta (Japanese: 雉子牟田 直子 Kijimuta Naoko, born March 26, 1972 in Ebina, Kanagawa) is a retired Japanese tennis player, winner of 3 professional tournaments in doubles and a representative of Japan in the Federation Cup.

Park Kyung-won

At 10:35 AM on of 7 August 1933, she took off from Tokyo's Haneda Airport on one such flight to Manchuria; she crashed 42 minutes later near Hakone, Kanagawa and died.

Romidepsin

Romidepsin was first reported in the scientific literature in 1994, by a team of researchers from Fujisawa Pharmaceutical Company (now Astellas Pharma) in Tsukuba, Japan, who isolated it in a culture of Chromobacterium violaceum from a soil sample obtained in Yamagata Prefecture.

Sagamihara

The main areas of commercial activity in Sagamihara are located near Hashimoto Station on the JR East Yokohama Line and Keio Sagamihara Line; Sagamihara Station on the Yokohama Line; and Sagami-Ōno Station on the Odakyu Odawara Line.

Sagamiko

Lake Sagami (Sagami-ko in Japanese) in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan

Sagamiko, Kanagawa, a former municipality in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan

Satsuki Fujisawa

Fujisawa's junior career began with a championship at the 2008 Pacific Junior Curling Championships over China's Sun Yue.

On the World Curling Tour, Fujisawa has played in three Grand Slam events: the 2011 Manitoba Lotteries Women's Curling Classic (1-3), the 2013 Curlers Corner Autumn Gold Curling Classic (3-3) and the 2013 Manitoba Liquor & Lotteries Women's Classic (0-3).

Wakamiya Ōji

British cartoonist Charles Wirgman and photographer Felice Beato were in Enoshima near Fujisawa, where they met Major Baldwin and Lieutenant Bird of the British garrison in Yokohama.

Yokohama Municipal Subway

The Green Line is a stage in the planned line to from Tsurumi Station to Hiyoshi Station, the current green line to Nakayama Station, to Futamatagawa Station, and on to Higashi-Totsuka Station, and to Kami-Ōoka Station, Negishi Station, and Motomachi.

Yokohama Women's Marathon

Yamashita Park->Industrial Trade Center->Yokohama Customs->Kanagawa Prefectural office->Chinatown->Yamashita Park->Industrial Trade Center->Minato Mirai 21->Yokohama Station->Sakuragichō Station->Yokohama Stadium->Yamanote Park->Yamashita Park->Industrial Trade Center->Minato Mirai 21->Yokohama Station->Sakuragichō Station->Yokohama Stadium->Yamanote Park->Industrial Trade Center->Yamashita Park (Finish)

Yoshizumi Ishihara

Born in Zushi, Kanagawa, he is the second son of Tokyo governor Shintaro Ishihara, and brother of politicians Nobuteru Ishihara and Hirotaka Ishihara.

Zama

Camp Zama, a United States Army base in Kanagawa prefecture, Japan


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