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unusual facts about Iyo, Ehime



Ahmed Mohamed Iman

His books included Toosiye Everyday English for Everyone (an English Grammar translated into Somali), Marine Ecosystem Data Gathered of Somalia and Taariikhda Taxan iyo Dhaqanka Soomaaliya (a book about the history and culture of Somalia).

Akiyama Yoshifuru

Born as the third son to a poor samurai in the Matsuyama Domain, Iyo Province (modern Ehime Prefecture), Akiyama's family was so poor in his childhood that he was forced to work as a fire stoker and janitor in a local public bathhouse for a pittance each day.

Gauge Change Train

From May to June 2003, the train was tested for the first time in Shikoku, running late at night on the Yosan Line between Sakaide Station and Matsuyama Station.

Hirota

Hirota, former village located in Iyo District, Ehime, Japan

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Iyotetsu Bus; all the regular bus lines, including limousine buses to Matsuyama Airport and Matsuyama Port, a railway-transfer bus between Takahama Station and Matsuyama Port, but excluding a service by Setouchi Bus.

Inugami Gyoubu

The "Tale of the Eight Hundred and Eight Tanuki Matsuyama Distrubance," was based on the historical record "Iyo Nagusa" (伊予名草) that told of the O-Ie Sōdō, which occurred during the Great Gyōhō Famine in 1805 or Bunka 2, and in the Edo period, and according to the kōshaku storyteller Nanryuu Tanabe, it was a ghost story that added elements of tanuki and yokai to it, and became known through kōdan.

Iyo Railway

Iyo Railway also operates the Botchan Ressha, diesel-powered replicas of the original Iyotetsu locomotives, well-known from Natsume Sōseki's famous 1906 novel, Botchan.

Japanese ironclad Fusō

On 29 October 1897, Fusō collided with the cruiser Matsushima in rough weather off the coast of Iyo (Shikoku) and sank.

Matsuyama Declaration

Coordination Council of Matsuyama Declaration (Head of the secretariat is Gania Nishimura) was held in Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture, on July 18, 1999 and the draft of the Declaration was created.

Prince Sawara

The others were Mononobe no Moriya (killed 587), Prince Iyo (executed 807), Fujiwara no Nakanari (executed 810), Tachibana no Hayanari (executed 842) and Bunya no Miyatamaro (executed 843).

RNB

Nankai Broadcasting (Radio Nankai Broadcasting), a broadcasting station in Ehime Prefecture, Japan

Takuji Yamashita

Takuji Yamashita (1874–1959), born in Yawatahama on Ehime, Shikoku, Japan, was a civil-rights campaigner.

Ukena District, Iyo

Shimoukena District - In 1896 the district was absorbed by both Iyo and Onsen District and thereby dissolved (formerly covered the cities of Matsuyama, Tōon, Iyo, the town of Tobe in Iyo District, and the town of Uchiko in Kita District)


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