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23 unusual facts about Nagano


2007 Asian Championship of Ski Mountaineering

It had the official partnerships of Otari village authorities, Tsugaike Kōgen Ski Resort, Nagano mountaineering federation and other groups.

Achi, Nagano

On March 31, 2009 the village of Seinaiji, also in Shimoina District, was merged into Achi.

Bill Zacha

Yoshida taught at the Mendocino Art Center in 1971, and after returning to Japan founded an art center in Miasa, Nagano based on his experiences in Mendocino.

Chikuhoku, Nagano

The village was incorporated on October 11, 2005 by a merger of three villages, namely Honjō, Sakakita, and Sakai.

Girl Scouts of Japan

In 2000, Her Highness Princess Sayako attended a variety of events in the Tokyo metropolitan area and in regional Japan, including the ceremony for the 50th anniversary of the establishment of the Girl Scouts of Tokyo, and the opening ceremony for the Togakushi Girl Scouts Center to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the Girl Scouting movement in Japan.

Greco guitars

;1960–1961: FujiGen, an early manufacturer of Greco, was established in Matsumoto city by Yutaka Mimura and Yuichiro Yokouchi in May 4, 1960, and started to manufacture the classical guitars for Kanda Shokai and Kamano Gakki.

Karuizawa International Curling Championship

The Karuizawa International Curling Championship is a curling bonspiel held annually since the Olympic Games in Nagano at the SCAP Karuizawa Arena in Kariuzawa, Japan.

Kazuo Aoki

Aoki was born to a farming family in Sarashina District, Nagano prefecture (now part of the city of Nagano), and was trained as a lawyer, graduating from the Law School of Tokyo Imperial University in 1916.

Kiso mayoral election, 2005

Kiso District, Nagano held a mayoral election on November 27, 2005 after the merger of four towns into a new district.

Kunio Tsuji

Tsuji died of cardial infarction at a hospital in Karuizawa, Nagano.

Lidiya Skoblikova

In Karuizawa, conditions were excellent, and Skoblikova won all four races, setting a new 1000 m world record in the process.

Matsumoku

Matsumoku began in Matsumoto, Japan, as a family owned woodworking business that specialized in building tansu and butsudan.

Minamimaki mayoral election, 2007

The main issue was the proposed merger of the village with neighboring Kawakami.

Mount Ogura

With its summit being 2,112 meters above sea level, it is the tallest mountain in Minamiaiki, Nagano.

NHL 98

NHL 98 took the NHL series ahead by introducing full national teams, although EA could not get the Nagano Olympic Tournament license due to lack of IIHF license, which Gremlin Interactive acquired.

Ozaki Kihachi

From 1946 to 1954, he lived in a cottage in the mountains of Fujimi Kogen in Nagano Prefecture, and left numerous works in which he praised the beauty of nature and rural life.

Paul Bryan

Bryan was born in Karuizawa, Japan, the seventh of nine children of The Rev Ingram Bryan.

Please Teacher!

This school is based upon the Old Matsumoto High School located in Agatanomori Park of Matsumoto, about an hour south of Lake Kizaki on the JR Ōito Line.

Saito Kinen Festival Matsumoto

Saito Kinen Festival Matsumoto is an annual classical music festival held in August and September in the Japanese Alps near Matsumoto.

Shinshu University

The University has five campuses in Matsumoto, Nishi-nagano (Nagano), Wakasato (Nagano), Ueda and Minami-Minowa, and 8 faculties with a total of around 10,000 students.

Takeo Takei

There is a memorial museum dedicated to Takeo Takei: The ILF Doga Museum (イルフ童画館・長野県岡谷市, located in Okaya, Nagano, since 1998) .

The Broken Commandment

With his pregnant wife and three daughters Toson left Komoro and moved to Minami Toshima-gun in Tokyo to complete his work.

和田

Wada, Nagano, former village in Chiisagata District, Nagano, Japan


1997–98 Calgary Flames season

Fleury also represented Canada at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan.

Andreja Koblar

She was most notably consistent in the individual event ever since where she claimed three World Cup victories (1995-96 in Osrblie, 1996/97 in Nozawa Onsen and 1997/98 in Östersund).

Armen Keteyian

He served as a reporter for CBS's coverage of the 1998 FedEx Orange Bowl, the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano and has been the host and co-writer of the Tour de France (2001–05).

E7 Series Shinkansen

The trains will first enter regular passenger service from the start of the revised JR East timetable on 15 March 2014, with three trainsets introduced on Asama services on the Nagano Shinkansen between Tokyo and Nagano.

Erben Wennemars

During the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano where Wennemars was qualified for the 500, 1000 and 1500 m, he dislocated his shoulder when Grunde Njøs from Norway fell and collided with Wennemars during the second 500 m race.

Esashi oiwake music

Oiwake was originally a horseman's song (Mago-uta) from Oiwake village from Nagano Prefecture but spread throughout Japan during the Edo period.

Gord Broseker

He also worked the 1996 World Cup of Hockey and the 1998 Nagano Olympics, including the Bronze Medal Game.

Hokuriku Bank

In addition to the Hokuriku region, the bank has branches in Kyoto, Osaka, Niigata, Nagano, Tokyo, Kanagawa, Gifu, Aichi, and Hokkaidō.

Inao

Inao Station, a railway station in Ōmachi, Nagano Prefecture, Japan

Japanese Olympic Committee

Japan has held the Olympic Games three times: the Summer Olympics once (1964 Summer Olympic Games, Tokyo) and the Winter Olympics twice (1972 Winter Olympics, Sapporo, and the 1998 Winter Olympic Games, Nagano).

Karin Säterkvist

Competing in two Winter Olympics, she had her best finish of seventh in the 4 x 5 km relay at Albertville in 1992 and her best individual finish of 25th in the 15 km event at Nagano in 1998.

Kate Gulbrandsen

Her version of Jørn Hansen's "Med gullet for øyet" was the official song of the 1998 Winter Paralympics in Nagano, Japan.

Ksenia Smetanenko

She is married to professional hockey player Sergei Gonchar of the Ottawa Senators, whom she met at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan.

Nagano Prefecture

In addition to its natural scenic beautiy and rich history, dating back to the neolithic, Nagano was host to the 1998 Winter Olympics, which gained the prefecture international recognition as a world-class wintersport destination, and a Shinkansen line to Tokyo.

Nagano has some of the world`s most impressive highland areas, including most of the Kita-Alps Northern Alps, Chu-Alps, and Southern Alps, which extend into the neighboring prefectures.

Ōmachi Station

Shinano-Ōmachi Station, a station on the JR East Ōito Line in Ōmachi, Nagano Prefecture, Japan

Palaeoloxodon naumanni

Some fossils were found around Lake Nojiri (Nagano, Japan) together with a lot of stone tools or bone tools.

Peter McNab

He was also a TV announcer on NBC as an analyst on NHL on NBC during the 2006 Winter Olympic games in Torino, Italy, and as a color analyst on TNT for the Olympic games in Nagano, Japan.

RBC Olympians

Jennifer Botterill, Ice Hockey, Gold Medal: 2006 Winter Olympic Games (Torino), Gold Medal: 2002 Winter Olympic Games (Salt Lake City), Silver Medal: 1998 Winter Olympic Games (Nagano)

Semisulcospira

"野尻湖層産カワニナ胎児殼化石について : 現生カワニナとの比較研究 "On the fossil embryonic shell of Semisulcospira libertina (GOULD) (Mesogastropoda: Pleuroceridae) from the latest Pleistocene Nojiri-ko Formation, Nagano Prefecture, Central Japan: A comparative study of recent and fossil Semisulcospira".

Shigeichi Nagano

In 1964 Nagano worked on the cinemaphotography for Ichikawa Kon's film Tokyo Olympiad, and he then moved to work in film and television, particularly television commercials.

Shigeno

Shigeno Station, railway station of Shinano Railway Line in Tōmi City, Nagano Prefecture, Japan

Stratton Mountain School

Ross Powers ('97) won a bronze medal (snowboarding halfpipe) at the 1998 winter games held in Nagano, Japan, and a gold medal at the 2002 games held in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Takeyuki Nakayama

Takeyuki Nakayama (中山竹通, Nakayama Takeyuki; born December 20, 1959 in Ikeda, Nagano) was a Japanese world-class marathon runner.

Tommy Spaulding

After graduating from East Carolina, Spaulding became the Business Partner Sales Manager at IBM/Lotus Development and a member of the Japan Exchange and Teaching (JET) program where he worked with the staff of the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan.

Toru Takemitsu Composition Award

For the third 3-year cycle (2003-2005), George Benjamin (2003), Magnus Lindberg (2004) and John Adams (2005 • cancelled) were nominated by recommendation from the Advisors (Hiroyuki Iwaki, Oliver Knussen, Kent Nagano, Kazushi Ohno, Simon Rattle, Esa-Pekka Salonen and Hiroshi Wakasugi) and preceding judges.

Trinity Benedictine Monastery

Trinity Benedictine Monastery is a small community of Benedictine monks in the town of Fujimi, Nagano Prefecture, Japan.