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unusual facts about Kin, Okinawa


Taco rice

The dish was created in 1984 by Matsuzo Gibo and introduced at two of his cafes, Parlor Senri and King Tacos, located just a minute from the main gate of Camp Hansen in Kin, Okinawa.


Adeyto

She was responsible for the cover photography for Akino Arai's 2008 single "Kin no nami sen no nami".

Alfred M. Gray, Jr.

After his Vietnam War tour, Gray served as Commanding Officer of the 1st Battalion, 2nd Marines, Battalion Landing Team 1/2; the 2nd Marine Regiment; the 4th Marine Regiment; and Camp Commander of Camp Hansen, Okinawa, Japan.

Angaur Airstrip

In April 2010 the Palau Senate passed a resolution asking the President to offer Angaur airstrip as a site for the relocation of Marine Corps Air Station Futenma on Okinawa.

Archduke Stephen, Palatine of Hungary

Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin Volume Two, published in cooperation with the New England Historic and Genealogical Society, Boston, Massachusetts, by Carl Boyer, 3rd, Santa Clarita, California, 1999, volume 2, p.

Austin Powers: Welcome to My Underground Lair!

There are a few mini-games included, such as Mojo Maze, a Pac-Man clone, Domination (an Austin Powers-themed version of Reversi), a digitalized version of Rock-Paper-Scissors, and 'Kin'-Evil, which is a motor bike racing game whose name is a play on Evel Knievel.

Battle of Taegu

The United States, a permanent member of the Security Council, immediately deployed armed forces (U.S. Army, U.S. Navy, and U.S. Air Force units) to southeastern South Korea because of their immediate availability from their bases in Japan and Okinawa, where the military occupation of Japan was still in effect (through 1952).

Beep!!/Sunshine Sunshine

As part of the involvement with KDDI's "Meet the Music" campaign, Superfly would have performed "Sunshine Sunshine" at the Okinawa Namura Hall in Naha, Okinawa Prefecture, on March 20, with the performance broadcast live over FM52 radio stations Tokyo FM, J-Wave, and FM Okinawa.

Bob Cowan

Cowan joined the Army Air Force in 1943 and served in World War II as part of the ground crew at various military bases and at Okinawa.

Chané people

They developed an agrarian culture, built densely populated villages, cultivated corn, peanuts, cotton and squash, and are famous for their ceramics and graphics which have been found mainly in the pampas surrounding the city of Santa Cruz de la Sierra, El Fuerte in Samaipata, and in Portachuelo, Valle Abajo, Okinawa, Cotoca, El Pari, Mataral and Warnes.

Chateau Lake Louise

The original Chateau was gradually built up at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century by the Canadian Pacific Railway and was thus "kin" to its predecessors, the Banff Springs Hotel, and the Château Frontenac.

Destination Gobi

A flummoxed Pentagon okays the requisition, and the chieftain leads Widmark's band to Okinawa.

Domangart Réti

Alternatively, rather that representing an alternative name for all of Dál Riata, it has been suggested Corcu Réti was the name given to the kin group which later divided to form the Cenél nGabráin of Kintyre and the Cenél Comgaill of Cowal, thus excluding the Cenél nÓengusa of Islay and the Cenél Loairn of middle and northern Argyll.

Draper Kauffman

His wartime service also included participation in the invasions of Saipan, Tinian, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa.

George Augustus Stallings, Jr.

In the year 2001, Stallings married Sayomi Kamimoto, a native of Okinawa, Japan, in a ceremony presided over by Sun Myung Moon, the founder of the Unification Church.

Hanzawa Naoki

Kin'ya Kitaōji as Ken Nakanowatari, the chairman of Tokyo Central Bank.

Hiroko Shimabukuro

Hiroko Shimabukuro (島袋 寛子 Shimabukuro Hiroko, 7 April 1984, Okinawa, Japan), best known mononymously as hiro, is a Japanese singer.

Intelligence and the Japanese Civilian

The Marianas and Okinawa, pre-war Japanese possessions, had large Japanese civilian populations at the time of their occupation, whereas other islands, like Tarawa, Guam or Iwo Jima, were either uninhabited by civilians, or only by indigenous civilians.

Japanese cruiser Tokiwa

As the Pacific War situation deteriorated further for the Japanese Empire, Tokiwa laid thousands of mines in the waters off Okinawa in June 1944 and Yakushima in February 1945.

Japanese escort ship Okinawa

Okinawa, the escorts CD-63 and CD-207 counter-attacked the submarine with depth charges.

On 27 May 1945, Okinawa and the escort ship Aguni were attacked by American aircraft in the Korea Strait.

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.

Justin Adams

His first solo album was Desert Road in 2001, and he also wrote the score for Elaine Proctor's 2000 film Kin.

Kirby Wright

He won a Visiting Writer post at the 2009 International Writers Conference in Hong Kong, where he joined fellow US poet Gary Snyder as well as Pacific Rim colleagues Young-Ha Kim (Korea), Bi Feiyu (China), Atsushi Shiitada (Okinawa), Wena Poon (Singapore), Chen Li (Taiwan), Miguel Syjuco (Philippines) and Janet Charman (New Zealand).

Kufah

Ovophis okinavensis, a.k.a. the Okinawa pitviper, a venomous pitviper species found in the Ryukyu Islands of Japan.

Leisha Hailey

Born in Okinawa, Japan to American parents, Hailey grew up in Bellevue, Nebraska and attended Bellevue West High School.

Leo Mustonen

On February 11, 2008, JPAC Joint POW-MIA Accounting Command notified the next of kin that the second airman found on Mendel Glacier was Ernest Glenn Munn.

Mel Pender

What people don't know is he didn't run track until the age of twenty five while he was serving in Okinawa with the 82nd Airborne Division.

Minoru Higa

As well as being a prominent entrepreneur and world representative of the Kyudokan school, Minoru Higa is a committee-member for the Okinawan Karatedo and Kobudo Federation, vice-president of the Ryukyu Kobudo Ryu Kon Kai Association, chief committee-member of the Okinawa Bodybuilding Association, a member and referee for the Japanese Bodybuilding Federation, and a member and referee for the Japanese Powerlifting Association.

Nathaniel Peat

He a qualified pilot, avid musician and 5th degree (dan) black belt in Okinawa Gōjū-ryū (剛柔流) with the Shōgō (称号, "title", "name", "degree") of Renshi (錬士 : れんし) he is a direct student of Shihan Kyōshi (教士:きょうし) Ronald Yamanaka who was a student of the late Eiichi Miyazato.

Next of Kin

The Next of Kin, a 1942 British film often called Next of Kin

Noriq Records

Acts signed to Noriq Records are KIN, followed by acts such as Kacie and Kay Smith.

Orchesis Dance Company: Cal Poly San Luis Obispo

Robert Moses, of the San Francisco based company Robert Moses’ Kin, choreographed his piece called Lucifer’s Prance for Orchesis' 2008 production.

Paiwan people

In 1871, an Okinawan vessel shipwrecked on the southern tip of Taiwan, and the crew of fifty-four were beheaded by the Paiwan aborigines.

Phillip Shriver

During World War II, he served as a lieutenant (j.g.) in the U.S. Navy aboard the Pacific Fleet destroyer USS Murray and participated in the Iwo Jima and Okinawa campaigns.

Ravenscourt Theatre School

The following list was confirmed by Ravenscourt Theatre School:Leona Lewis (International Singer) Daniela Denby-Ashe (Eastenders and My Family), Dean Gaffney (Eastenders), Peter Kin Kelly (The Wild House), Charlie Brooks (EastEnders), Celena Cherry (Honeyz), Simon Fenton (The Power Of One, Matinee), Montanna Thompson (The Story Of Tracy Beaker)

Robert Emmett O'Malley

The following year, he arrived on Okinawa as a member of the 3rd Battalion 9th Marines, then part of 3rd Marine Division.

Rochelle Maria Rao

She represented India at Miss International 2012 pageant held in October 2012 (Okinawa, Japan) where she ranked 9th out of 80 Countries.

Stanley John Olsen

Olsen’s work on the Thomas Farm Caninae (dog-like carnivores, including Metatomarctus and the bear-dog, Amphicyon, and their kin) in the late 1950s and early 1960s is regarded as foundational for subsequent studies of those and related species.

The Boom

Vocalist Kazufumi Miyazawa who is the composer and lyricist for The Boom was inspired by the music of Okinawa.

The Kin-der-Kids

The Kin-der-Kidss "full-fledged, frankly suspenseful week-to-week continuity," writes cartooning historian Bill Blackbeard, was a "real innovation for the time" when even Winsor McCay's Little Nemo had not yet developed into ongoing stories.

Thomas Taro Higa

Higa was sent with his older brother and older sister to their ancestral home in Shimabukuro, Kitanakagusuku, Nakagami-gun, Okinawa-Ken and was raised by his grandparents until he was 9 years old.

Tokashiki

Tokashiki, Okinawa, an island located in Shimajiri district, Okinawa, Japan

Vernon B. Romney

Romney served in Okinawa and Leyte during WWII as an infantryman in the 96th Infantry Division as a radio operator and an assistant to a Methodist chaplain.

VMAQ-4

During the UDP, VMAQ-4 had several "mini-det"s to places such as Kadena Air Force Base, Okinawa; RAAF Curtin, Australia; and Naval Air Station Cubi Point, Philippines.

William Cabell Rives

He was a great-uncle of Alexander Brown, author of books on the early history of Virginia and a family history, The Cabells and their Kin (1895).

William Jennens

The courts allocated William's personal property between his next of kin, Mary, Lady Andover, a granddaughter of Humphrey Jennens’s daughter Ann, and William Lygon, 1st Earl Beauchamp (1747–1816), a grandson of Hester Jennens, and a descendant of Thomas Lygon.

Yōichi Sai

In 1999 he shot The Pig's Retribution, a film set in the lavish natural scenery of Okinawa, inspired by the 1996 Akutagawa Prize-winning eponymous novel by Eiki Matayoshi.


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