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3 unusual facts about Miyazaki Prefecture


Atarashiki-mura

It was originally founded in 1918 in Hyūga, in the mountains of Miyazaki Prefecture in Kyūshū, but in 1939 they were warned that much of their land was about to be submerged by the construction of a dam, so they searched for a new home and found 10 hectares in Moroyama-machi, Iruma-gun, Saitama Prefecture.

Julian Rachlin

In 2011, he declined the invitation to play in the Miyazaki Prefecture due to radiation concerns in Japan from Fukushima I nuclear accidents.

Pitted stingray

Japanese ichthyologist Yasunori Miyosi described the pitted stingray in a 1939 issue of the Bulletin of the Biogeographical Society of Japan, based on a specimen collected from the Hyuga-nada Sea in eastern Miyazaki Prefecture, Japan.


Shihan Mato

The style originated from what was the domain of the Satsuma clan (in modern-day Miyazaki Prefecture).


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