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9 unusual facts about Fukui


For Fukui's Sake

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.

Fukuisaurus

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.

Fukuititan

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.

Harada Daiun Sogaku

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.

Kitaguni

Major stops along the Kitaguni route included Shin-Osaka, Kyoto, Maibara, Tsuruga, Fukui, Kanazawa, Toyama, Naoetsu, and Nagaoka.

Mikhail Berens

On January 31, 1920, he took his remaining vessels and numerous refugees to Tsuruga in Japan.

Prince Tsunenaga

Fleeing the Ashikaga, Nitta brought the Princes away from Yoshino, where the Southern Court of Go-Daigo was based, towards Tsuruga in Echizen.

Twilight Express

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.

Willow Grove Cemetery, New Brunswick

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.


For Fukui's Sake

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".

Jin'ai Joshikōkō Station

Jōdo Shinshū Ōtani Sect (Higashi-Honganji) Fukui Branch Temple

Kenji Fukui

Fukui is the host of the television variety show Tamori's Japonica Logos, starring Japanese TV personality Tamori.

Fukui has hosted numerous television news and variety programs, but is best known as the "play by play" announcer of Iron Chef.

Matsuura

Matsuura Machinery, an international heavy machinery manufacturing company in Fukui, Fukui Prefecture, Japan

Takako Saito

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.

白山

Mount Haku (白山), an inactive volcano on the borders of Gifu, Fukui and Ishikawa prefectures in Japan


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