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13 unusual facts about Mie


Akihiko Noro

A native of Iitaka, Mie, he attended Keio University for undergraduate study and received a master's degree from it.

Aoyama Plateau Wind Farm

The Aoyama Plateau Wind Farm (青山高原ウインドファーム), located amongst the Aoyama Plateau in the Muroo-Akame-Aoyama Quasi-National Park, Japan, is one of the largest wind farms in Honshū.

Girraween High School

Under principal Robert Cruikshank, specialist computer rooms and music studios were constructed, and a Sister school relationship with Hisai High school in Mie, Japan was forged.

Irina Risenzon

Risenzon had her highest placement at the 2009 World Championships held in Mie, Japan finishing 6th in All-around and at the 2008 European Championships in Torino, Italy finishing 8th in All-around.

Ja'mie King

Lilley once again reprises his role of Ja'mie in the show Ja'mie: Private School Girl, first broadcast on 23 October 2013.

Japanese marten

In the Iga region, Mie Prefecture, there is the saying, "the fox has seven disguises, the tanuki has eight, and the marten has nine," and there is a legend about how the marten has greater ability in shapeshifting than the fox (kitsune) or tanuki.

Mie-ji

The temple houses the Kanshitsu Kannon, which is one of Japan's nationally-designated Important Cultural Properties.

Norio Mitsuya

A native of Ise, Mie and graduate of the University of Tokyo, he joined the Ministry of Transport, attending Columbia University in the United States while in the ministry.

Rohan Pathirage

Air Vice Marshal Rohan J Pathirage, USP, ndc, psc, CEng, MIE, SLAF is the current Director Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering of the Sri Lanka Air Force.

Shadowmasters

When Japan surrendered after World War II, Shigeru Ezaki was one of the last Shadowmasters and the mayor of a small town in Iga named Ueno, whose his wife has been just killed in the U.S. atomic bombing in the closing days of the war.

Some Punkins

While on Tinian it was used on 13 training and practice missions and five combat missions to drop pumpkin bombs on industrial targets on Toyama, Ōgaki, Shimoda, Yokkaichi, and Nagoya.

Takao Fujinami

Born in Ise, Mie Prefecture, Fujinami was first elected to the House of Representatives in 1967 as a Liberal Democratic Party member, and was elected to the House of Representatives eleven times.

Toshin Golf Tournament

It was played at the Toshin Lake Wood Golf Club in Tsu, Mie in 2010 and 2011.


Bessel function

This differential equation, and the Riccati–Bessel solutions, arises in the problem of scattering of electromagnetic waves by a sphere, known as Mie scattering after the first published solution by Mie (1908).

Jirō Kawasaki

Kawasaki is a long-time rival of Hiroshi Nakai of the Democratic Party of Japan, and the two have repeatedly challenged each other for seats representing Mie in the Diet.

Jonah Takalua

Jonah is the only one of the three main characters in Summer Heights High to debut in the mockumentary, with the other main characters, Ja'mie and Mr. G, previously having appeared in We Can Be Heroes.

Mie Kumagai

Mie Kumagai is a Sega video game producer since 1993, and when the previous boss of the Hitmaker development studio Hisao Oguchi was promoted to president of the whole company, Kumagai became the new studio head and the first ever female president within Sega's development structure.

Sputniks Down

The songs "Atonement" and "Mie Scattering" featured artists from El Hombre Trajaedo and Long Fin Killie (Luke Sutherland).

Yoshikazu Yahiro

His stage name was comes from the place he was born, Mie Prefecture where the Suzuka racing circuit is, his favorite guitarist, Steve Vai from which he adopted the letter V, and his look, many people think he looks like a panther, especially when he had pink-dyed hair.

北山

Kitayama, Wakayama, exclave village of Wakayama on the Mie–Nara border, Japan