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unusual facts about Ikeda, Fukui



Battle of Komaki and Nagakute

Mizuno Tadashige led Tokugawa's rearguard against Ikeda's force and the noise of the battle alerted Hori Hidemasa, the head of one of Hideyoshi's divisions.

Chaos in optical systems

One of the most seminal works is published by Ikeda (Physical Review Letters, 1982) where chaotic behavior in a ring resonator was proposed and experiementally confirmed.

Chappaqua Orchestra

Soloists such as Vanessa L. Williams, Ruth Laredo, Joseph Fuchs, Kikuei Ikeda, Jerome Rose, Jon Manasse, Tim Fain, and others have appeared with the orchestra.

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.

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".

French Institute Alliance Française

Since 2007, the FIAF Gallery has been exhibiting contemporary French and Francophone artists such as Arman, Visual System, Greg Lauren, Ryoji Ikeda, and Matthew Pillsbury.

Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack

Meanwhile, a few teenagers at Lake Ikeda in Kagoshima are attacked by an insect monster, Mothra.

Hankyū Minoo Line

The Hankyū Minoo Line (阪急箕面線 Mino-o sen) is a Japanese railway line run by Hankyu Railway which links Ishibashi Station in Ikeda and Minoo.

Hiroshi Ikeda

Ikeda was born in Tokyo and began studying aikido in 1968 while attending college at Kokugakuin University in Tokyo.

Hitomi Kobayashi

Director Ikeda, unsure of Kobayashi's acting abilities, instead put Miyuki Ono in the lead role of Nami, and gave Kobabayashi the supporting role of Rei.

Ian G. McKay

In July 1980, he was sent by his hometown to live in the city of Ikeda, on Japan’s island of Hokkaido.

Ikeda clan

Takamasa Ikeda, former head of the Okayama Ikeda house was a husband of Atsuko Ikeda, fourth daughter of Emperor Shōwa.

Ikeda, Fukui

The affiliation with wine is shared with their sister-city of Penticton, British Columbia, Canada.

Ikeda, Osaka

Itsuo Museum holds the Itsuo Collection which is mainly Japanese art for cha-no-yu; Ikeda Bunko holds collections on Takarazuka and other materials related to Hankyu Dentetsu.

Jin'ai Joshikōkō Station

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

Kanzo Uchiyama

Ikeda was arrested for her involvement in the student movement, expelled from Meiji University.

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.

Kitaguni

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

Launceston City Park

As a gift, Ikeda City gifted the Launceston City Council with an exhibit of Japanese Macaques which was built near the Cameron Street entrance to the park.

Luxembourg Sinfonietta

2004: First prize: Chañaral Ortega-Miranda (Chile), second prize: Lin Wang (China), third prize: Satoru Ikeda (Japan).

Mamoru Takuma

After his release from jail, he moved to Ikeda and found work as a bus and garbage truck driver.

Matsuura

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

Miyoko Kudō

Her older sister Akiko was the wife of Chiharu Igaya and her younger brother Tetsuo Ikeda is president of Baseball Magazine.

Pioneer Valley Zendo

Eishin Ikeda, who had later been leading the Bean Town Sangha (founded by Eishin Ikeda and Michael Flessas) whose first meetings where held on the second floor of a book store in Arlington, Massachusetts and returned as the present resident priest in 2006.

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.

Takeyuki Nakayama

Takeyuki Nakayama (中山竹通, Nakayama Takeyuki; born December 20, 1959 in Ikeda, Nagano) was a Japanese world-class marathon runner.

Top Girls

During the 2007-2008 New York theatre season, Manhattan Theatre Club presented the play at the Biltmore Theatre in a production starring Mary Catherine Garrison, Mary Beth Hurt, Jennifer Ikeda, Elizabeth Marvel, Martha Plimpton, Ana Reeder, and Marisa Tomei.

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.

Uemon Ikeda

For the occasion Ikeda presented an installation featuring spatial geometries with a thread of blue wool and silk depicting the Star of David.

Wataru Kaji

Kaji, along with Yuki Ikeda, and another Japanese named Kazuo Aoyama, were involved with the re-education of captured Japanese soldiers, and psychological warfare against the Empire of Japan for the Kuomintang which was conducted by the Japanese People's Anti-war Alliance.

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.

白山

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


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