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unusual facts about Fukiage, Kagoshima


Fukiage

Fukiage, Kagoshima (吹上町, Fukiage-chō), a town located in Hioki District, Kagoshima, Japan


Augustus Leopold Kuper

In August 1863 he hoisted his flag in the wooden screw-frigate Euryalus and led a British squadron of seven warships to Kagoshima to coerce the Daimyo of Satsuma into paying the £100,000 demanded by the British Government as reparation to the British victims of the Namamugi Incident.

Battle of Shiroyama

Following defeat at the Siege of Kumamoto Castle and in other battles in central Kyūshū, the surviving remnants of the samurai forces loyal to Saigō Takamori fled back to Satsuma, seizing the hill of Shiroyama overlooking Kagoshima on 1 September 1877.

Chōgorō Kaionji

On graduadtion in 1926, he initially returned to Kagoshima as a high school teacher of Japanese and Chinese literature.

Fukiage

Fukiage, Saitama (吹上町; -machi), a town located in Kitaadachi District, Saitama, Japan

Gauge Change Train

In 2014 the train is scheduled to undertake a ~600,000km, 3 year reliability trial between Kumomoto and Kagoshima-Chuo Station, including gauge changing at Shin-Yatsushiro Station.

Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack

Meanwhile, a few teenagers at Lake Ikeda in Kagoshima are attacked by an insect monster, Mothra.

History of Kagoshima Prefecture

Saigo Takamori, the hero and leader of Meiji Restoration left the central Meiji Government and returned to Kagoshima, with dissatisfied samurais.

In 2004, Kyushu Shinkansen partially opened between Shin-Yatsushiro and Kagoshima Chuo Station which opened fully in 2011.

Jana Ueekata

They were brought to Kagoshima, the capital of Satsuma Domain, and then to Sunpu, where they met with the retired former shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu, and were forced to sign a number of vows of fealty and allegiance to the Shimazu clan lords of Satsuma.

Japanese ironclad Ryūjō

On 26 October 1877, Ryūjō ran aground in high winds off Kagoshima, but she was successfully refloated the following year and brought to Yokosuka for repairs.

Kagoshima verb conjugations

This applies to most areas of Kagoshima with some exceptions: namely, the peripheral islands, such as Ōsumi (including Tanegashima) and Koshikijima, do not reduce the endings.

Modern kana usage

Regarding じぢずづ – these four morae are distinguished or merged to varying degrees in different Japanese dialects, with some dialects (Tohoku) merging all 4 into 1, while other dialects (Tosa dialect, Kagoshima dialect) distinguishing all 4.

Muromachi period

Christianity had an impact on Japan, largely through the efforts of the Jesuits, led first by the Navarrese Saint Francis Xavier (1506–1552), who arrived in Kagoshima in southern Kyūshū in 1549.

Oke

Okinoerabu Airport, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan (IATA airport code: OKE)

Our Airline

Air Nauru once had a remarkably comprehensive network in the Asia-Pacific, with service to Hong Kong, Kagoshima, Taipei, Okinawa, Singapore, Guam, Saipan, Koror, Chuuk, Pohnpei, Kosrae, Majuro, Tarawa, Honolulu, Honiara, Port Vila, Noumea, Apia, Pago Pago, Nadi, Tonga, Kanton Island, Niue, Raratonga, Auckland, Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, and Christmas Island.

Saigō Takamori

Saigō fled back to Kagoshima, only to be arrested and banished to Amami Ōshima island.

Soo, Kagoshima

Soo is located in Kagoshima so it also receives ash from its volcanoes, most notably: Shinmoedake and Sakurajima.

Tobata

Tobata Station, a railway station on the Kagoshima Main Line, Japan

Toru Kamikawa

He was educated at and played for Kagoshima National College of Technology and Tokai University.

Yaku

Yaku, Kagoshima, Japan (屋久町), a town on the island of Yakushima in Kagoshima Prefecture


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