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2 unusual facts about Kochi Prefecture


Shimanto, Kōchi

Shimanto, Kōchi refers the following municipalities within Kōchi Prefecture.

Shimanto, Kochi

Shimanto (四万十) is the name of two municipalities in Kōchi Prefecture.


Aizumi, Tokushima

Lord Muromachi controlled the region until he was in turn disposed when Chosokabe Motochika from Tosa (Kōchi prefecture) gained control of Awa.

Kataoka Naoharu

Kataoka was a native of Tosa Province (present-day Kōchi Prefecture, and served as an office with the police force from Shiga Prefecture.

María Eugenia Suárez

Suárez was born to Guillermo Suárez and Marcela Riveiro in Buenos Aires; she had a Japanese grandmother, Marta Mitsumori born in Kochi Prefecture.

Nobuyuki Tanaka

Nobuyuki Tanaka is an economic botanist at the Tokyo Metropolitan University, the Makino Botanical Garden in Kōchi prefecture, Japan and the Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute (FFPRI), Japan.

Shūsui Kōtoku

Kōtoku moved from his birthplace, the town of Nakamura in the Kōchi prefecture, to Tokyo in his mid-teens and after graduating from the Tokyo School of English, became a journalist there in 1893.

Wakefieldite

Wakefieldite-(Nd) was first described in 2008 at the Arase mine, Kami city, Kochi Prefecture, Shikoku Island, Japan.


see also

Asa Line

Asa Kaigan Railway Asatō Line, a railway line connecting Tokushima Prefecture and Kōchi Prefecture, Japan

Kōchi Station

Kōchi-Ekimae Station (高知駅前駅), a tram station in Kōchi, Kōchi Prefecture located in front of Kōchi Station

Kōchi-Shōgyō-Mae Station (高知商業前駅), a train station in Kōchi, Kōchi Prefecture

Nakaoka Shintarō

There is a large bronze statue of Nakaoka Shintarō at Murotomisaki lighthouse in Cape Muroto in his native Kochi Prefecture, and another (together with Sakamoto Ryōma) at Maruyama Park in Kyoto.

Taisho Station

Tosa-Taishō Station, a train station on the Shikoku Railway (JR Shikoku) Yodo Line in Shimanto, Kochi Prefecture, Japan