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2 unusual facts about Fukushima Prefecture


David Muir

In 2011, Muir reported from Tahrir Square during the political revolution in Egypt and from Fukushima, Japan following the deadly tsunami and nuclear power plant accident.

Rolling blackout

This is because about 40 percent of the electricity used in the greater Tokyo area is supplied by nuclear power plants in the Niigata and Fukushima prefectures.


10572 Kominejo

It is named for Komine Castle in Shirakawa, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan; the total solar eclipse of August 19, 1887, was observed from the castle.

Chieko Takamura

She was born in what is now Adachi-gun, Fukushima Prefecture as Chieko Naganuma, the eldest of six daughters and two sons.

Greeeen

All members studied at the dentistry department at Ohu University in Fukushima Prefecture and the group debuted while still in school in 2007.

Masayoshi Yoshino

A native of Iwaki, Fukushima and graduate of Waseda University, he was elected to the first of his three terms in the assembly of Fukushima Prefecture in 1987 and then to the House of Representatives for the first time in 2000.

Mikoshi-nyūdō

In the legends of Hinoemata, Minamiaizu District, Fukushima Prefecture, they are shapeshifted weasels, and it is said that if one gets lured to look up from the nyūdō's expansion, the weasel would take that opening and bit at one's throat.


see also

Ebisu

Ebisu Circuit, a motorsport circuit in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan

Fukushima disaster

Fukushima Incident, political tumult in 1882 in Fukushima Prefecture

Futabasaurus

The first fossils of Futabasaurus were found in the Irimazawa Member of the Tamayama Formation, Futaba Group, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, dating to the Inoceramus amakusensis zone of the early Santonian.

Kusano

Kusano, Fukushima, village located in Iwaki District, Fukushima Prefecture

Miya River

Agano River, a river which flows from Fukushima Prefecture to Niigata Prefecture that is often called the "Miya River"

Okuma

Ōkuma, Fukushima (大熊町; -machi), a town located in Futaba District, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan

Radiation monitoring in Japan

Greenpeace sent radiology experts to the villages of Iitate and Tsushima in the Fukushima Prefecture.

Tadami

Tadami Dam, dam on the Tadami River, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan

Toho Bank

Toho Bank also operates some branches outside of Fukushima prefecture, with branches in Utsunomiya, Miyagi Prefecture, and Tokyo, among others.