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unusual facts about Kushima, Miyazaki



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Bamboo Blade

Miyazaki Miyako is based on Miyazaki Masahiro, Eiga Danjuro based on Eiga Naoki, Chiba Kirino based on Chiba Masashi etc., even though there aren't any relations between the Bamboo Blade characters in regards to the real kendoka.

Daijiro Morohoshi

When Kentaro Takekuma interviewed Miyazaki, he said that he actually wanted Morohoshi to draw "Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind".

Dark Souls

The Daily Telegraph gave the game the "Best Integration of Online Features" award, and nominated it for the awards of "Best Director" (Hidetaka Miyazaki), "Best Level Design", "Best Sound Design", "Best Original Score" (Motoi Sakuraba), "Best Developer" (From Software), and "Game of the Year".

Devine, British Columbia

--Miyazaki says Frank--> which employed Japanese-Canadians who had been Japanese Canadian internment relocated to McGillivray Falls (now McGillivray) which was just inside the 100-mile "quarantine zone" from the British Columbia Coast.

Dōbutsu Takarajima

Hayao Miyazaki created a manga adaptation as a promotional Tie-in for the film.

History of Miyazaki Prefecture

In the mythologies of country production, Miyazaki appeared as a part of Kumaso in Kyushu, but not as a unified force but it is considered to be a part of Kumaso-controlled area.

Judicial system of Japan

They (Sapporo, Sendai, Tokyo, Nagoya, Osaka, Hiroshima, Takamatsu, and Fukuoka) serve defined circuits of several prefectures each; there are also "branch offices" in Akita, Kanazawa, Okayama, Matsue, Miyazaki, and Naha.

Kami District, Miyagi

1889 With the creation of the modern municipal system, Nakaniida Town (中新田町), Hirohara Village (広原村), Naruse Village (鳴瀬村), Onoda Village (小野田村), Miyazaki Village (宮崎村), Kamiishi Village (賀美石村), and Shikama Village (色麻村) are established

Kushima Castle

Kushima castle is built on a peninsula extending into Ōmura Bay.

Kushima, Miyazaki

Within the boundaries of the municipality (but some distance from its main built-up areas) lies the island of Kōjima, known for the field studies site of the Primate Research Institute, where studies on wild-living Japanese macaque monkeys are carried out.

Manabu Miyazaki

As a teenager and college student, Miyazaki became involved in the left-wing politics of the Japanese Communist Party but dropped out in 1969 to pursue an underworld life, including running his family's yakuza-connected demolition business.

Masajiro Miyazaki

Miyazaki was born in the vicinity of Hikone City in Japan and moved to Canada in 1913 with his father.

Miyazaki, Miyazaki

Miyazaki-jingū, a shrine in the city's center, is one of Miyazaki's sacred dedications to Japan's first emperor, Jinmu.

Sadowara, Miyazaki

On January 1, 2006, Sadowara, along with the town of Tano (also from Miyazaki District), and the town of Takaoka (from Higashimorokata District), was merged into the expanded city of Miyazaki and no longer exists as an independent municipality.

Shigetoshi Miyazaki

On August 7, the Americans invaded Guadalcanal and Miyazaki had to cope with the marines, so he signaled Captain Sadayoshi Yamada in New Britain, telling him that the troops would fight to the last man and that they destroyed their papers.

Styles and themes of Hayao Miyazaki

Interestingly, one of Miyazaki's most successful films, Princess Mononoke, does not contain a flying sequence, or any flying characters.

Miyazaki’s characters are often on the verge of discorporating into liquid entirely: from the stink-demon, to the river dragon spirit Haku in Spirited Away and the God-Warrior at the climax of Nausicaa to the globular henchmen of the Witch of the Waste in Howl's Moving Castle.

Takaoka, Miyazaki

On January 1, 2006, Takaoka, along with the towns of Sadowara and Tano (both from Miyazaki District), was merged into the expanded city of Miyazaki and no longer exists as an independent municipality.

Tano, Miyazaki

On January 1, 2006, Tano, along with the town of Sadowara (also from Miyazaki District), and the town of Takaoka (from Higashimorokata District), was merged into the expanded city of Miyazaki and no longer exists as an independent municipality.

The Journey of Shuna

A dwindling population: This theme surfaces several times in Miyazaki’s more serious works, including Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind and Princess Mononoke, as well as here in Journey of Shuna.


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