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13 unusual facts about Iwate


Esashi

Esashi, Iwate, previously a city, now a ward in Ōshū city, Iwate Prefecture

Gaithersburg Latitude Observatory

The Observatory — along with observatories in Cincinnati, Ohio; Ukiah, California; Mizusawa, Japan; Charjui in Russian Turkestan; and Carloforte, Sardina, Italy — performed in concert to carry out a coordinated program of star observation designed to investigate and calculate the degree of earth “wobble” or latitude variation.

Iwate

Japanese cruiser Iwate, an armored cruiser of the Imperial Japanese Navy from 1900 to the end of World War II.

Iwate 1st district

It is located in central Iwate and consists of the majority of the prefectural capital Morioka (the whole city without the former village of Tamayama) and Shiwa county.

Kamaishi Seawaves

Kamaishi Seawaves is a Rugby union football club in Kamaishi, Iwate Prefecture, Japan.

-- ja:釜石市 has a section about the Kamaishi City Council. "Kamaishi, Iwate" used as a fallback in the absence of an en.wikipedia.org Kamaishi, Iwate#City Council section-->

Kesen meteorite

The Kesen Meteorite is a meteorite that fell on June 13, 1850, landing in a swamp in the outskirts of the City of Rikuzentakata, Kesen District in Iwate Prefecture, Japan.

Maarten Gerritsz Vries

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

Park Golf Courses in Iwate

There are a number of public and private Park golf courses in Iwate, Japan.

Super Delfin

He lost the title to El Pantera on October 21 the same year in Iwate, Japan.

Takuboku Ishikawa

1886 - Born at Joko Temple, Hinoto-mura (presently named Hinoto, Tamayama-mura), Minami-Iwate-gun, Iwate Prefecture, to Ittei, the father, who was the priest of the temple, and Katsu, the mother.

Tamayama

Tamayama, Iwate, former village located in Iwate District, Iwate, Japan

Toyota Mark X

The Mark X was introduced in 2004 and is manufactured in Kanegasaki, Iwate, Japan.


Japanese unified local elections, 2007

Iwate: In Ichirō Ozawa's home prefecture, Democrat Takuya Tasso beats four candidates in the race to succeed retiring three-term governor Hiroya Masuda.

Takenaka Shigekata

Takenaka Shigekata was born in 1828 in the town of Iwate, in Mino Province, the son of Tokugawa retainer Takenaka Motoyuki.