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unusual facts about Minakuchi, Shiga


Akebia

An old source lists Minakuchi, Shiga and Tsugaru (now Aomori Prefecture) as localities that produced baskets from the vines of trifoliate variety.


Atmospheric ghost lights

In a Yomihon (Ehon Sayo Shigure) from the Edo period, at Minakuchi, Ōmi (now Kōka, Shiga Prefecture) there was a person who made a livelihood out of selling jōsen (candy made from the sap of Rehmannia glutinosa, boiled into a paste) who was killed by a robber.

Global Engine Alliance

Global Engine Manufacturing Alliance LLC, or GEMA is the manufacturing arm of the Global Engine Alliance and consisted of five factories worldwide; two in Dundee, Michigan, United States, two in South Korea and one in Shiga, Japan.

Imazu

Imazu, Shiga, town located in former Takashima District, Shiga, Japan

Ōmi-Imazu Station, railway station on the Kosei Line of West Japan Railway Company in Takashima, Shiga Prefecture, Japan

Naoya Shiga

While Shiga was at the Gakushuin he became friends with Saneatsu Mushanokōji and Kinoshita Rigen.

Shiga Prefectural Zeze High School

Shiga Prefectural Zeze High School (滋賀県立膳所高等学校) is a senior high school situated in Ōtsu, Shiga, Japan, within walking distance of Lake Biwa.

Water supply and sanitation in Japan

The average unaccounted for sewerage is 12%, varying from 6% in Shiga to 30% in Sapporo.

Yoshio Shiga

In May 1942, then Lieutenant Shiga took command of aircraft carrier Jun'yō's fighter group, a post he held until December 1942.


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