X-Nico

unusual facts about Iwaki, Fukushima


Up An' Atom

While at Tinian, Marquadt and crew B-10 flew Up An' Atom on eight training and practice bombing missions and pumpkin bomb missions against industrial targets in Taira and Hamamatsu, Japan.


715 series

The sets were rebuilt from surplus former 581/583 series EMU cars at JNR factories in Tsuchisaki (Akita), Kōriyama (Fukushima), Mattō (Ishikawa), and Kokura (Kitakyūshū).

Biathlon at the 2003 Asian Winter Games

Biathlon at the 2003 Asian Winter Games was held at the Iwaki General Athletic Park in Iwaki, Japan from 3 February to 7 February 2003.

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.

Ebisu

Ebisu Circuit, a motorsport circuit in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan

Fukushima disaster

Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, in which the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant was heavily damaged by the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami

Fukushima Incident, political tumult in 1882 in Fukushima Prefecture

Fukushima Yasumasa

In any case, Fukushima was an admirer of Colonel Burnaby, a British cavalry officer, who had made an epic ride to Khiva in 1874 after receiving word that the Russians had closed the border to Turkistan.

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.

Hula Girls

Starring Yū Aoi, Yasuko Matsuyuki, Etsushi Toyokawa, Shizuyo Yamazaki, Ittoku Kishibe, Eri Tokunaga, Yoko Ikezu and Sumiko Fuji, it is based on the real-life event of how a group of enthusiastic girls take on hula dancing to save their small mining village, Iwaki, helping the formation of Joban Hawaiian Center (now known as Spa Resort Hawaiians), which was later to become one of Japan's most popular theme parks.

Iizaka

Fukushima Kōtsū Iizaka Line, the train line that links Iizaka Onsen Station to Fukushima Station

Iizaka onsen

Iizaka Onsen Station, a train station on the Iizaka Line in Iizaka, Fukushima

Investigations into the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster

On 24 October 2011 the first meeting was held by a group of 6 nuclear energy specialists invited by NISA to discuss the lessons to be learned from the accidents in Fukushima.

Jan Beránek

In 2011, he acted as a head of the Greenpeace’s global crisis response team to Fukushima nuclear disaster.

Japan National Route 289

The eastern part of Route 289 starts in Iwaki, Fukushima near Nakoso Station.

Japan National Route 6

Major cities and villages it passes through include: Kashiwa, Toride, Tsuchiura, Ishioka, Mito, Hitachi, Iwaki, Tomioka, Ōkuma, Sōma, Watari, Iwanuma

Japanese unified local elections, 2007

The House of Councillors by-elections were won by one LDP-Kōmeitō supported candidate (Aiko Shimajiri in Okinawa) as replacement for OSMP Councillor Keiko Itokazu, and one Democrat (Teruhiko Mashiko in Fukushima) as replacement for Democrat Yūhei Satō, producing a net gain of one seat for the ruling centre-right coalition three months before the regular House of Councillors election of 2007.

Jōban Line

The name "Jōban" is dervied from the names of the former provinces of Hitachi (常陸) and Iwaki (磐城), which the line connects to Tokyo.

Kenichi Ohmae

In 2011, he became a Project director for Team "H2O", and coordinated in preparing the report "What should we learn from the severe accident at the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant?" and submitted the same to Goshi Hosono, the Minister of Environment & Minister for the Restoration of Nuclear Accident.

Kesteven and Grantham Girls' School

The school's connection with Minami High School, Fukushima, Japan, involves a group of Japanese students visiting Grantham each year.

Kusano

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

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.

Megan Rice

Discussion of encounter with Rice in Devil's Tango: How I Learned the Fukushima Step by Step by Cecile Pineda (2012), Chapter 78, "Two Halves Make One Whole", pp.

Miya River

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

Morito Suganuma

Born in Fukushima, Japan, his first contact with aikido was in 1963 at the Asia University in Tokyo where he followed a class taught by Nobuyoshi Tamura.

Naoki Yamamoto

-- also translation from the Japanese page --> He was born in Matsumae District, Fukushima, Hokkaido

Nuclear power in Germany

Physicist Amory Lovins has said: "Chancellor Merkel was so shocked by Fukushima that she turned Germany’s energy focus from nuclear (of which she closed 41% and will close the rest within a decade) to efficiency and renewables. That’s supported by three-fourths of Germans and opposed by no political party".

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.

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.

San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station

Speakers included two Japanese residents who lived through the Fukushima meltdowns and Raymond Lutz.

Shirasawa

Shirasawa, Fukushima, village located in Adachi District, Fukushima, Japan

Spiez Laboratory

verification Laboratory, Or Swiss Air Force Eurocopter AS332 Super Puma Helicopters or Northrop F-5 Tiger II for air measurements (e.g. after the Fukushima event).

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.

Toru Takemitsu Composition Award

For the third 3-year cycle (2003-2005), George Benjamin (2003), Magnus Lindberg (2004) and John Adams (2005 • cancelled) were nominated by recommendation from the Advisors (Hiroyuki Iwaki, Oliver Knussen, Kent Nagano, Kazushi Ohno, Simon Rattle, Esa-Pekka Salonen and Hiroshi Wakasugi) and preceding judges.

Toyo Ito

Architects who previously worked for his office include Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa (SANAA), Astrid Klein and Mark Dytham (KDa), Katsuya Fukushima, Makoto Yokomizo, and Akihisa Hirata.


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