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unusual facts about Hidaka District, Hokkaido



Ainu languages

The historical Ainu of (southern) Hokkaido appear to be a fusion of this culture, known archeologically as Satsumon, and the very different Nivkh- and Kamchadal-like Okhotsk culture of (northern) Hokkaido, with Satsumon being dominant.

Antsiferov Island

The island was formerly administered as part of Shimushu District of Nemuro Subprefecture of Hokkaidō.

Broutona

The island was formerly administered as part of Uruppu District of Nemuro Subprefecture of Hokkaidō.

Chyornie Bratya

The islands were formerly administered as part of Uruppu District of Nemuro Subprefecture of Hokkaidō.

Cypripedium macranthum var. rebunense

rebunense, the Rebun lady's slipper orchid, known as Rebun atsumorisō in Japan, is a species of orchid native to Rebun Island in Hokkaidō.

Eareckson Air Station

The aerial photos taken on the raid showed the Japanese were building up forces in the area, transferring aircraft presumably from air bases on Hokkaido.

Eastern Youth

Eastern Youth was formed as Scanners in 1989 by childhood friends Hisashi Yoshino and Atsuya Tamori in Sapporo, Hokkaidō.

Fujinokawa Takeo

Fujinokawa Takeo (born 26 September 1946 as Takeo Morita) is a former sumo wrestler from Otofuke, Hokkaido, Japan.

Glay discography

Beloved:theme song for TBS's drama "ひと夏のプロポーズ"/"Hokkaido Shumbun Press" commercial movie.

Hanamizuki

Later, when Sae needs to leave Hokkaido to go to Tokyo for studies, the two of them attempted to have a long distance relationship.

Hilgendorf's tube-nosed bat

The smaller, brown coloured bat Ussuri Tube-nosed Bat is found in Korea, Russia (Far East and Sakhalin), and Japan (Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu, Tsushima and Yakushima).

Hokkaido Speed Park

Hokkaido Speed Park is a 0.868mile (1.389 km) motor racing circuit in 155 Tougeshita, Kutchan, Abuta District, Shiribeshi Subprefecture, on the island of Hokkaido, Japan.

Japanese destroyer Namikaze

At the time of the attack on Pearl Harbor, Namikaze was based at the Ōminato Guard District in northern Japan, and was assigned to patrols of the Hokkaidō and Chishima Islands coastlines.

Japanese ironclad Kōtetsu

She was immediately put to use and dispatched with seven other steam warships to the northern island of Hokkaidō, to fight the remnant of the Shogun's forces, who were trying to form an independent Ezo Republic there, with the help of French ex-military advisors.

Japanese tree frog

The Japanese tree frog (Hyla japonica) is a species of tree frog distributed from Hokkaidō to Yakushima in Japan and from Korea along the Ussuri River to northeastern China, northern Mongolia, and the southern Russian Far East.

JR Freight Class EH800

Following delivery, the prototype locomotive is scheduled to first undergo testing within the confines of Higashi-Fukushima Station before being moved to Goryōkaku Depot in Hokkaido for testing in winter conditions.

Jungle Smile

They enjoyed considerable popularity in the late 1990s due to their songs being used in TV commercials for Japan Airlines and Hokkaido Engineering Academy, and are known to anime fans for their contribution of the ending theme of DT Eightron, "Onaji Hoshi" in 1998 and the ending theme of Super GALS! Kotobuki Ran, "Dakishimetai" in 2001.

KiHa 141 series

A large number of locomotive-hauled 50 series coaches became surplus to requirements following electrification of lines in the Sapporo area of Hokkaido in the late 1980s.

Kiritappu Wetland

Kiritappu Wetland is on the northeast side of Japan, on the east side of Hokkaidō, facing the Pacific Ocean between Kushiro and Nemuro.

Levanga Hokkaido

Levanga plays its home games mainly at the Hokkaido Prefectural Sports Center and the Tsukisamu Dome, but, as the team represents the entire Hokkaido Prefecture, also plays some home-games at the Atsubetsu Ward Gymnasium, Otaru City Gymnasium, Eniwa City Gymnasium, Obihiro City Gymnasium & Kushiro Shitsugen no Kaze Arena.

Lonicera alpigena

L. glehnii F. Schmidt, which is native to Sakhalin, Kurile Islands, Hokkaido and Honshu, is sometimes considered as a geographically disjunct subspecies of Alpine Honeysuckle, L. alpigena L. subsp.

Louis Boehmer

In January 1871, when Kuroda Kiyotaka was in the United States hiring foreign advisors for his Hokkaidō Colonization Office, Boehmer was recommended as a horticulturist by a mutual friend of Horace Capron.

Matsuura

Mount Midori, also known as Mount Matsuura, a mountain located in the Daisetsuzan Volcanic Group of the Ishikari Mountains, Hokkaidō, Japan

Michael George Dupée

Born in Lawrence, Massachusetts, Dupee grew up in Hokkaido, Japan (1969-1971), where his father worked on military projects.

Naval Air Facility Adak

By the end of October, the Japanese had decided to pull out most of its garrison to Attu, which they believed was worth retaining, and began transporting additional units from Hokkaido to Attu and began upgrading their defenses.

Nozuka

Mount Nozuka, located in the Hidaka Mountains, Hokkaidō, Japan

Nozuka Pass, mountain pass in the south-end of the Hidaka Mountains, Hokkaidō, Japan.

Polygonia c-aureum

The Asian Comma (Polygonia c-aureum) is a middle-size butterfly found in Japan (from Hokkaidō to Tanegashima), Korean Peninsula, China, Taiwan, and Indochina.

R. orientalis

Rhynchelmis orientalis, a freshwater worm species found on Hokkaidō, Japan

Red-faced Cormorant

The Red-faced Cormorant, Red-faced Shag or Violet Shag (Phalacrocorax urile) is a species of cormorant that is found in the far north of the Pacific Ocean and Bering Sea, from the eastern tip of Hokkaidō in Japan, via the Kuril Islands, the southern tip of the Kamchatka Peninsula and the Aleutian Islands to the Alaska Peninsula and Gulf of Alaska.

Sapporo Beer Museum

William Clark was a president of the Massachusetts Agricultural College, which had one of the best techniques of beet production in the United States at that time, and he hoped to establish the beet cultivation in Hokkaidō during his stay.

Sapporo Factory

The building was formerly a brewery that belonged to the Kaitakushi, the old government of Hokkaidō prefecture, and later owned by the Sapporo Beer Company, the predecessor of the Sapporo Brewery.

Sapporo Ichiban

Sapporo Ichiban literally means "Sapporo's number one noodle", but there is no relation between Sapporo Ichiban and the city of Sapporo, Hokkaido.

Sea of Okhotsk

The Dutch captain Maarten Gerritsz Vries in the Breskens entered the Sea of Okhotsk from the south-east in 1643, and charted parts of the Sakhalin coast and Kurile Islands, but failed to realize that either Sakhalin or Hokkaido are islands.

Servant x Service

A 13-episode anime adaptation produced by A-1 Pictures and directed by Yasutaka Yamamoto began airing on ABC on July 4, 2013 and were later aired on Tokyo MX, Tochigi TV, Gunma TV, Hokkaido Broadcasting Company, Chukyo TV, BS11 and AT-X.

Shinonome Station

See also Tōun Station in Hokkaido (written with the same kanji but with different pronunciation).

Shizunai, Hokkaido

On March 31, 2006, Shizunai was merged with the town of Mitsuishi (from Mitsuishi District) to create the new town of Shinhidaka (in the newly created Hidaka District).

Tai Ho Wan

In 1999, the Hong Kong Government designated Tai Ho Stream as the 63rd Site of Special Scientific Interest due to the discovery of the Ayu (plecoglossus altivelis) in the river, which cannot be found anywhere in the world except for waters in Hokkaidō, and Hong Kong.

Takadaya Kahei

He later developed trading routes to the Kuril Islands and operated many fisheries around Nemuro, a town on Hokkaidō's east coast.

Teine

Teine-ku, Sapporo, an administrative district of the city of Sapporo, Hokkaidō, Japan

Terney

It was here that the French explorers became convinced that the coast visited by Maarten Gerritsz Vries in the Castricum in 1643 (i.e., in fact, the east coast of Hokkaido and Sakhalin) was not the mainland, since they French were now at the same latitude as the Dutch had been a century and a half before, but the location looked entirely different.

Tōyako

Lake Tōya, known as "Tōyako" in Japanese, a volcanic caldera lake in Shikotsu-Toya National Park, Abuta District, Iburi Subprefecture, Hokkaidō, Japan

Tsugaru Nobuaki

During his reign, Tsugaru domain was plagued with one natural disaster after another, with flooding followed by drought, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions (by Mount Iwaki and other volcanoes in Hokkaidō), inclement weather, and repeated crop failures, which led to widespread famine and disease.

Wasabi

There are also numerous artificial cultivation facilities as far north as Hokkaido and as far south as Kyushu.

Wild Bird Society of Japan

After 15 years of lobbying by WBSJ and many other conservation organisations, the Hokkaido Government decided not to build drainage channels along the Chitose River in Chitose, Hokkaidō.

Yoshio Nakagawa

A native of Hiroo District, Hokkaidō and dropout of Kanagawa University, he was elected to the House of Councillors as a candidate for the Liberal Democratic Party for the first time in 1998 after serving in the prefectural assembly of Hokkaidō for five terms.


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