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unusual facts about Honshū–Shikoku Bridge Project


Honshū–Shikoku Bridge Project

Crossing the Akashi Strait, this connection links Hyōgo Prefecture on Honshu with Tokushima Prefecture on Shikoku, using Awaji Island for most of its length.


Air Central

As of April 2007, Air Central served the following destinations on the Japanese islands of Honshū, Shikoku and Kyūshū.

Amblyseius tsugawai

This oval mite, less than 0.5 mm in length, is only known from apple trees on Honshū, Japan.

Aoyama Plateau Wind Farm

The Aoyama Plateau Wind Farm (青山高原ウインドファーム), located amongst the Aoyama Plateau in the Muroo-Akame-Aoyama Quasi-National Park, Japan, is one of the largest wind farms in Honshū.

Bareskin dogfish

The bareskin dogfish, Centroscyllium kamoharai, is a little-known, deepwater dogfish shark of the family Dalatiidae, so far found only in the western Pacific in Suruga Bay, Honshū, Japan.

Broadfin sawtail catshark

The broadfin sawtail catshark is found in the northwestern Pacific from Sagami Bay off southeastern Honshu, Japan to the East China Sea, including the Ryukyu Islands and the Kyushu-Palau Ridge.

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).

J. japonica

Julia japonica, a sea snail species found in Wakayama, Honshū, Japan

Japanese angelshark

The Japanese angelshark is native to the cooler waters of the northwestern Pacific; its range extends from the eastern coast of Honshu, Japan to Taiwan, and includes the southern Sea of Japan, the Yellow Sea, the East China Sea, and the Taiwan Strait.

Japanese catshark

The Japanese catshark, Apristurus japonicus, is a cat shark of the family Scyliorhinidae found in the northwest Pacific from off Chiba Prefecture, Honshū, Japan between latitudes 36° N and 34° N.

Japanese destroyer Okikaze

In April 1942, Okikaze was recalled to the Yokosuka Naval District, where it was assigned anti-submarine patrols of the entrance of Tokyo Bay for the duration of the war, making only an occasional convoy escort run along the coast of Japan to Kushimoto, Wakayama or patrols of the coast of northern Honshū through the end of 1942.

Kōshō Tateishi

Kōshō Tateishi establishes "Shugen-Honshu Furaisan Shōkakuin" (a section of Kinbusen temple) in Oyama 1256 Kumanogawa-chō, Shingū, Wakayama to feel the elements and to experience, and trains day and night.

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.

Maarten Gerritsz Vries

The Breskens arrived in a promising bay and was received friendly by the population of Yamada on Honshu.

Magnolia stellata

The species Magnolia stellata may be found growing wild in certain parts of the Ise Bay area of central Honshū, Japan’s largest island, at elevations between 50m and 600m.

Miura Chora

Miura Chora (23 May 1729 – 4 September 1780) was a Japanese poet raised in Ise, in the Mie Prefecture of Shima Province on the island of Honshu, Japan.

Nakajima A6M2-N

Later in the conflict the Otsu Air Group utilized the A6M2-N as an interceptor alongside Kawanishi N1K1 Kyofu ("Rex") aircraft based in Biwa lake in the Honshū area.

Quarryhill Botanical Garden

Annual Quarryhill expeditions have collected seeds and herbarium specimens from the following Asian regions to date: China - Hubei, Sichuan, Taiwan, Tibet, Yunnan; India - Himachal Pradesh; Japan - Hokkaidō, Honshū, Kyūshū, Shikoku, Yakushima; and Nepal.

Three Years' War

Gosannen War, fought in the 1080s in Mutsu Province on the Japanese island of Honshū

Tsuruhime

At that time the island was under threat from the growing power of Ōuchi Yoshitaka from Yamaguchi on the mainland of Honshu, and fighting took place between the Ōuchi and the Kōnō on Shikoku, under whose jurisdiction the shrine fell.


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