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unusual facts about Mishima, Shizuoka


Comparative Literature Studies

Every two years, one of the regular issues concerns East-West literary and cultural relations and is edited in conjunction with members of the College of International Relations at Nihon University located in Mishima, Japan.


29th Flying Training Wing

Received a second DUC for strikes on the industrial area of Shizuoka, the Mitsubishi aircraft plant at Tamashima, and the Chigusa arsenal at Nagoya,

53157 Akaishidake

53157 Akaishidake (1999 CP) is a main belt asteroid discovered on February 5, 1999 by Japanese astronomer M. Akiyama at Mishima, and named after Mount Akaishi in Japan.

Darnel Situ

Situ joined the under-18 team in August 2009, as an underage player, playing with his elder peers at the SBS Cup in the Japanese prefecture of Shizuoka.

Gunvalkyrie

The two playable characters are Kelly O'Lenmey, who was born in Ballymun, Ireland, daughter of Dr. Hebbel and Saburouta Mishima, grandson of one of the Samurai rebels who aided the British in conquering Japan.

Hatanagi-I Dam

Public access to the dam and its lake are by Shizuoka Prefectural Road 60, with bus connections to Ikawa Station or directly with Shizuoka Station or Shin-Shizuoka Station.

Hayato people

It is widely believed that the majority of the Hayato people migrated to modern day Shimizu, a town in Shizuoka prefecture.

Ikawa Dam

Public access to the dam and its lake are by Shizuoka Prefectural Road 60, with bus connections to Shizuoka Station or Shin-Shizuoka Station.

Inasa

Inasa District, Shizuoka, a former rural district in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan

Inasa, Shizuoka, a former town in Inasa District, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan

Izu

Izu Province, a part of modern-day Shizuoka prefecture in Japan

Izuhakone Railway Sunzu Line

The terminus of the line was moved to Mishima Station (present day Shimo-Togari Station) on June 15, 1898 and the southern end of the line was extended to Ōhito Station on July 17, 1899.

Jana Ueekata

They were brought to Kagoshima, the capital of Satsuma Domain, and then to Sunpu, where they met with the retired former shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu, and were forced to sign a number of vows of fealty and allegiance to the Shimazu clan lords of Satsuma.

Jesse Ceci

Mr. Ceci made many solo appearances including the Denver Chamber Orchestra, Royal Metropolitan Orchestra of Japan, Shizuoka Symphony Orchestra, Osaka Municipal Band, The Mozart Festival in Whistler, British Columbia, Bach Carmel festival in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, Colorado Music Festival, Minnesota Orchestra, Esterhazy Orchestra, New Orleans Philharmonic Orchestra and with the Denver Symphony Orchestra as soloist in over thirty major works.

Kaishakunin

The most recent kaishakunin of the 20th century was Hiroyasu Koga, who beheaded the novelist Yukio Mishima during Mishima's seppuku.

Kariwa District, Niigata

Prior to the split, Mishima District covers the cities of Kashiwazaki (excluding the western part of the city), village of Kariwa, Nagaoka (parts of the former towns of Oguni and Koshiji).

Ken Ogata

Ogata is well known for his roles in Peter Greenaway's The Pillow Book, Paul Schrader's Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters and Shohei Imamura's The Ballad of Narayama.

Masakatsu Morita

On 2 September in Tokyo, Morita and "Chibi Koga" recruited Hiroyasu Koga ("Furu" Koga), who was a Tatenokai member also, and he met Mishima to hear details of the plan on 9 September.

Mishima-Tamachi Station

The northern terminus of the line was moved to present-day Mishima Station in 1934.

The line was connected to the former Mishima Station (present day Shimo-Togari Station) on June 15 of the same year.

Mishima, Shizuoka

Mishima received its first train connection in 1898 when the predecessor of the Izuhakone Railway established what is now Shimo-Togari Station.

N700 Series Shinkansen

The N700 is also used on select Hikari services during the day, as well as some early-morning and late-night Kodama runs between Tokyo and Mishima/Hamamatsu.

Ōmura Bay

Opposite Ōmura city lies the largest island of the bay: Mishima (箕島), where Nagasaki Airport is located.

Osadia

Tollwood Festival, Munich / Sydney Mardi Gras, Australia / Trafalgar Square Festival, London, UK / Juste pour rire/Just for laughs, Montreal, Canada / The Esplanade Festival, Singapore / NZ International Festival, Wellington, New Zealand / Kleines Fest im Grossen Garten, Hanover / Daidogei World Cup, Shizuoka, Japan / Hogmanay, Edinburgh, Scotland / Festes de la Mercè, Barcelona

Oyama, Shizuoka

During the cadastral reform of the early Meiji period on April 1, 1889, the area was reorganized into the villages of Rokugo, Kannuma, Ashigara, Kitago and Subashiri within Suntō District, Shizuoka, two months after the opening of Suruga-Oyama Station on the Tōkaidō Main Line (now Gotemba Line).

Sea of Fertility

The Sea of Fertility, a series of four novels by Japanese writer Yukio Mishima

Seppuku

His second, a 25-year-old named Masakatsu Morita, tried three times to ritually behead Mishima but failed; his head was finally severed by Hiroyasu Koga.

Shibakawa, Shizuoka

Shibakawa is located in central Shizuoka Prefecture, in the southwest foothills of Mount Fuji, and is bordered by the Fuji River.

Shizuoka Station

Railroad Minister Inoue Masaru cancelled his planned visit, and later the same day, the town around Gotemba Station, also in Shizuoka Prefecture, burned down.

Star Micronics

Star Manufacturing Co., Ltd. was established in 1950 with a capital of ¥ 500,000, in Tegoshi, Shizuoka, to manufacture and sell wristwatches and camera parts.

Sunpu

Sunpu Castle, a former castle in Shizuoka City, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan.

Tsugi

Tsugi Takano, female novelist from Hamamatsu in Shizuoka prefecture, Japan

Yeni Ngbakoto

In the tournament, he scored his only two goals so far against the Shizuoka national team in the second group stage match and the hosts Japan in the final group stage match.

Yukiko Sakamoto

A native of Mishima, Shizuoka and graduate of the University of Tokyo, she joined the Ministry of Labor (now part of Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare) from 1972 until 2004 when she was elected to the House of Councillors for the first time.


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