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unusual facts about Ikeda, Osaka


Mamoru Takuma

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


2007 European Cup Winter Throwing

Discus winners Gerd Kanter and Franka Dietzsch became world champions, while the men's hammer throwers Primož Kozmus and Ivan Tsikhan took the top two spots in Osaka as they did in Yalta.

2007 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 50 kilometres walk

The men's 50 kilometres walk event at the 2007 World Championships in Athletics took place on 1 September 2007 in the streets of Osaka, Japan.

2007 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 20 kilometres walk

The Women's 20 km Race Walk event at the 2007 World Championships in Athletics took place on August 31, 2007 in the streets of Osaka, Japan.

A-Train

Map construction adds the ability to build custom maps and terrains, and included pre-built cities Tokyo, Yokohama, Nagoya, Kyoto, Osaka, Kobe.

Barrio 19

Barrio 19 is a television program shown on MTV showcasing a diversity of street talents and urban underground pursuits in cities such as Tokyo, Paris, Berlin, London, Osaka, Hamburg, Mexico City, Rio de Janeiro, and São Paulo.

Boucheron

The distribution network of Boucheron is made of 34 shops located all over the world (Paris, Cannes, Saint-Tropez, Monaco, Beirut, London, San Francisco, Tokyo, Saitama, Yokohama, Fukuoka, Kyoto, Osaka, Hiroshima, Okayama, Nagoya, Taipei, Seoul, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur, Dubai, Baku, Moscow and Almaty) and over 100 certified retailers.

Candlestick pattern

Much of the credit for candlestick charting goes to Munehisa Homma, (1724–1803), a rice merchant from Sakata, Japan who traded in the Ojima Rice market in Osaka during the Tokugawa Shogunate.

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.

Dōtonbori

The sign has been altered on several occasions to celebrate events such as the World Cup and to show support for the Osaka baseball team, the Hanshin Tigers.

Gabrielle Bellocq

She has exhibited profusely around the world, including in Paris, Windsor, Henley-on-Thames and Salisbury, Osaka (Japan), Chicago (Illinois), Sedona (Arizona) and Ede (Netherlands).

Higashi-Hanazono Station

When the large events are held at Kintetsu Hanazono Rugby Stadium, part of express trains running both direction and part of rapid express trains running for Osaka Namba and Kobe stop at the station (examples: the National High School Rugby Tournament games, the international rugby football games, the Japan Top League games (Kintetsu Liners, when crowded))

Hiroshi Ikeda

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

History of prostitution

In the early 17th century, there was widespread male and female prostitution throughout the cities of Kyoto, Edo, and Osaka, Japan.

Hodogaya-ku, Yokohama

After the Meiji Restoration, the area was transferred to the new Kanagawa Prefecture, and Hodogaya Town was established on April 1, 1889, two years after the completion of Hodogaya Station on the Tōkaidō Main Line railway connecting Tokyo with Osaka.

Hong Kong Fir Shipping Co Ltd v Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha Ltd

On the voyage from Liverpool to Osaka, the engines suffered several breakdowns, and was off-hire for a total of five weeks, undergoing repairs.

I've Been Working on the Railroad

This tune is used at the stations on the Hanshin Electric Railway Lines (except Umeda Station and Osaka Namba Station) to announce arriving trains and is similarly used at Okayama Station on the Sanyo Line (for Kamigori and Himeji) and the Ako Line (for Banshu-Ako) of West Japan Railway Company.

Ikeda, Fukui

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

István Majoros

On December 31 (New Year's Eve), 2006, Majoros made his mixed martial arts debut against Norifumi Yamamoto at K-1 Dynamite in Osaka, Japan and lost via TKO in the 1st round.

Itaru Ishida

In addition to his Grand Prix success, Ishida had success in the teams format, with second place finishes at Pro Tour Seattle 2004 and at the Master Series in Tokyo (2001) and Osaka (2002).

Jesse Ceci

Mr. Ceci made many solo appearances including the Denver Chamber Orchestra, Royal Metropolitan Orchestra of Japan, Shizuoka Symphony Orchestra, Osaka Municipal Band, The Mozart Festival in Whistler, British Columbia, Bach Carmel festival in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, Colorado Music Festival, Minnesota Orchestra, Esterhazy Orchestra, New Orleans Philharmonic Orchestra and with the Denver Symphony Orchestra as soloist in over thirty major works.

Jin Goto

He has held exhibitions at The British Museum, the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Osaka City Museum of Art, the Paper Museum in Tokyo, Ginza Matsuzakaya Department Store, Ikebukuro Tobu Department Store, Gallery Art Salon in Chiba, Gallery Shinseido in Minamiaoyama, and Onward Gallery in Nihonbashi.

Joe Cipriano

From 1987 to 1992, Cipriano produced and hosted two shows that aired in Tokyo, Yokohama, Osaka and Kobe, Japan: the L.A. Express and Toyota California Classics.

JR Kyoto Line

In addition to the three types of commuter trains, long-distance limited express trains connecting the Kyoto-Osaka region with Kansai International Airport (Haruka services), Hokuriku region (Thunderbird and Raichō services) and other areas also frequently operate on the line.

Kansai Telecasting Corporation

Osaka International Ladies Marathon (大阪国際女子マラソン, Hosted by Japan Association of Athletics Federations, Kansai TV, the Sankei Shimbun, Sankei Sports, Radio Osaka and Osaka City)

Kanzo Uchiyama

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

Kawanishi K-7 Transport Seaplane

The K-7A entered service on Nippon Kokus service between Osaka and Fukuoka in January 1925, mainly carrying airmail rather than passengers.

Kyoto Line

JR Kyoto Line, an alias of a part of the Tōkaidō Main Line railway between Kyoto Station and Ōsaka Station

Line 2, Wuhan Metro

Stations of Line 2 provides female only waiting area during hours of operation, following the example of Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya, Tehran and Mexico City, to protect female riders from sexual harassment.

Matt Tegenkamp

Tegenkamp also finished second behind Bernard Lagat in the 5,000m at the 2007 U.S. Outdoor Track & Field Championships, which earned him the right to compete at the IAAF World Championships in Osaka.

Michael Vetter

From March to September 1970, together with nineteen other musicians, he performed works by Stockhausen (including Hymnen, Spiral, Pole, and Aus den sieben Tagen ) in the spherical auditorium of the German Pavilion at Expo '70 in Osaka, Japan. Back in Europe, he continued his association with Stockhausen, taking part in the world premieres of Sternklang (1971) and Alphabet für Liège (1972) (Stockhausen and Vetter 1996, 95 and 98).

Michel Tapié

Tapié organized and curated scores of exhibitions of new and modern art in major cities all over the world, including not only Paris and Turin but also New York, Rome, Tokyo, Munich, Madrid, Amsterdam, Buenos Aires, Milan, and Osaka.

Misawa Airport

Initially served by Toa Airways with McDonnell Douglas DC-9 and MD-80 aircraft to Tokyo (Haneda), Sapporo (Chitose), and Osaka Itami, operations were upgraded to Airbus A300 aircraft after Toa Airways became Japan Air System in 1988.

Nagano Line

Kintetsu Nagano Line, a railway line of Kintetsu in Osaka Prefecture, Japan

Noribumi Suzuki

He made his screenwriting debut on director Kōkichi Uchide's 1963 film Zoku: Tenamonya Sandogasa (co-written with Takaharu Sawada), and his directorial debut in 1965 with Osaka Dokonjō Monogatari: Doerai Yatsu, starring Makoto Fujita.

Osaka International Peace Center

It is a five-minute walk from Morinomiya Station on the JR Osaka Loop Line and Chūō and Nagahori Tsurumi-ryokuchi subway lines.

Osaka-jō Hall

The hall may be reached on a short walk from either Osaka Business Park Station on the Osaka Municipal Subway Nagahori Tsurumi-ryokuchi Line or Osakajō-kōen Station on the JR Osaka Loop Line.

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.

Sakurabashi Station

Kitashinchi Station in Osaka, which was planned and constructed under the provisional name Sakurabashi Station

Sakyō-ku, Kyoto

The train station Demachiyanagi is the terminal for both the Keihan railway with trains running south to Osaka, and the Eizan railway running north to Yase and Kurama.

Shinkanaoka Station

30 minutes to ride from Namba Station, located under the OCAT (Osaka City Air Terminal) and extending underground to Dotombori.

Takeyuki Nakayama

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

Tapani Hyvönen

Internationally, Hyvönen has served in juries for the NID Business World Design Excellence Award (India), the Osaka Design Competition (Japan), Adolf Loos Staatspreis Design, Austria The Red Dot awards (Germany and Singapore), and Design for Asia Award, (Hong Kong).

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.

Transport in Macau

It was inaugurated on December 1995 and has since established a number of regulars flights between Macau and major cities in Northeast and Southeast Asia, for example Bangkok, Beijing, Kaohsiung, Kuala Lumpur, Manila, Osaka, Seoul, Shanghai, Singapore, Taipei, etc.

Transportation in the Philippines

After offering low fares to domestic destinations, Cebu Pacific launched its international operations on November 2001 and now flies to Bangkok, Busan, Guangzhou, Ho Chi Minh City, Hong Kong, Jakarta, Kota Kinabalu, Kuala Lumpur, Macau, Osaka, Seoul, Shanghai, Singapore and Taipei.

Ueda Akinari

Born to an Osaka prostitute and an unknown father, Ueda was adopted in his fourth year by a wealthy merchant who reared him in comfort and provided him with a good education.

Volunteer Army Unit for Punishing Traitors

Targets included offices of the Japan Teachers Union, buildings in Osaka and Tokyo of the terrorist sect Aum Shinrikyo (which had perpetrated the sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway in 1995), the pro-North Korea Chongryon association, and in the only threat taken seriously by the Japanese police, the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Hitoshi Tanaka, who had attempted rapprochement with North Korea in 2002.

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.


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