For Fukui's Sake is a 2011 travel book by Sam Baldwin that describes the experiences of living in Ono, Fukui prefecture, Japan, whilst working as an Assistant Language Teacher (ALT) on the JET Programme.
Remains of Fukuisaurus (フクイサウルス) were discovered in 1989, in the Kitadani quarry in Katsuyama, Fukui Prefecture, in rocks from the Kitadani Formation, dating to the Barremian.
It is known from FPDM-V8468, the associated partial skeleton of a single individual, recovered from the Kitadani Dinosaur Quarry (Kitadani Formation) of the Tetori Group, at Katsuyama City.
Born in an area known today as Obama, Fukui Prefecture, he entered a Sōtō temple as a novice at age 7 and continued training in temples during his primary and high school years.
Major stops along the Kitaguni route included Shin-Osaka, Kyoto, Maibara, Tsuruga, Fukui, Kanazawa, Toyama, Naoetsu, and Nagaoka.
On January 31, 1920, he took his remaining vessels and numerous refugees to Tsuruga in Japan.
Fleeing the Ashikaga, Nitta brought the Princes away from Yoshino, where the Southern Court of Go-Daigo was based, towards Tsuruga in Echizen.
Trains for Sapporo depart Osaka at 11:50, and call at Shin-Ōsaka, Kyoto, Tsuruga, Fukui, Kanazawa, Takaoka, Toyama, Naoetsu, and Nagaoka, with the final passenger pick-up made at Niitsu at 19:39.
It is the burial place of several of the first Japanese exchange students to come to the United States, including Taro Kusakabe, a young samurai of Fukui and student of William Elliot Griffis, who studied at Rutgers University in the late 19th century and died while living there of tuberculosis.
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Skyscanner gave a positive review of For Fukui's Sake, saying that Baldwin "expertly captures what it feels like to be a foreigner in a strange land".
Jōdo Shinshū Ōtani Sect (Higashi-Honganji) Fukui Branch Temple
Fukui is the host of the television variety show Tamori's Japonica Logos, starring Japanese TV personality Tamori.
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Fukui has hosted numerous television news and variety programs, but is best known as the "play by play" announcer of Iron Chef.
Matsuura Machinery, an international heavy machinery manufacturing company in Fukui, Fukui Prefecture, Japan
Aside from solo exhibitions in Düsseldorf, Cologne, Fukui, New York and Kansas, she has featured in recent exhibitions including Fluxus retrospectives at the Chapel Studio in Balatonboglár in 2002 and at Tate Modern London in 2008 and the Re-Imagining Asia at the House of World Cultures in Berlin.
Mount Haku (白山), an inactive volcano on the borders of Gifu, Fukui and Ishikawa prefectures in Japan