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unusual facts about Nakayama, Yamagata



Haguroyama

Mount Haguro (Haguro-san), Yamagata Prefecture, Japan, one of the sacred Three Mountains of Dewa

Heijiro Nakayama

Hashimoto thanked Nakayama for his guidance in his paper which led to the name of Hashimoto's thyroiditis.

Izo

Kazuya Nakayama plays Izo, and the countless characters he encounters on his journey include for instance Takeshi Kitano and Bob Sapp.

Japanese encephalitis vaccine

One of them was an inactivated mouse brain-derived vaccine (the Nakayama and/or Beijing-1 strain), made by BIKEN and marketed by Sanofi Pasteur as JE-VAX, until production ceased in 2005.

Jelger Wiegersma

That season, he made the top eight of four Grand Prix across three continents, finishing 3rd at Grand Prix Barcelona and Yamagata, 8th at Grand Prix Toronto, and fifth at Grand Prix Malmö.

JSKA

One group was led by Tetsuhiko Asai, the JKA chief instructor after Nakayama with Raizo Matsuno, the other by Nobuyuki Nakahara and including Masaaki Ueki and Masahiko Tanaka.

Nakayama Tadayasu

According to Peter Kornicki, "Nakayama's cooperation with Iwakura had been essential to the success of the coup d'etat".

Nakayama, Yamagata

The area of present-day Nakayama was part of ancient Dewa Province.

Names of Sun Yat-sen

Previously on their travel they passed by a board that used the popular Japanese name Nakayama (中山, lit. middle mountain).

Night and Fog in Japan

At the time, the Zengakuren was dominated by the Japanese Communist Party, represented in the film by the dogmatic leadership of Nakayama.

Nishikawa, Yamagata

Nishikawa is located in mountainous central Yamagata and includes Mount Gassan and Mount Asahi within its borders.

Sengoku Yaro

The film also starred Ichirō Nakatani, Makoto Sato, Hiroshi Hasegawa, Jun Tazaki, Yuriko Hoshi, Tadao Nakamaru, Tatsuyoshi Ehara, Kumi Mizuno, Hideyo Amamoto (as Eisei Amamoto), Yutaka Nakayama, Masanari Nihei (as Masanori Nihei), Yoshifumi Tajima, Kazuo Suzuki, Ren Yamamoto, Naoya Kusakawa and Ikio Sawamura.

Takeyuki Nakayama

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

Taro Nakayama

Nakayama also made history by hiring the first non-Japanese aide, Timothy Langley, into the Japanese Diet as was showcased on 60 Minutes.

Uri Nakayama

Nakayama's music is introduced as blended world accordion music, Gypsy Jazz, Musette, Tango etc. and her voice is advertised as "miracle voice" by record label.

Yamagata dialect

Yamagata-ben was used for comic effect in the Japanese film Swing Girls, 2004, to suggest that the film was set in a rural, 'backward' location.

Yamagata, Gifu

The name, Yamagata, has already existed in one of the oldest Japanese family registry which was published in 702 and has been stored in Shosoin, Nara.

Yasuhide Nakayama

In the episode, Nakayama congratulated the final two contestants on behalf of the Japanese people for making it to the end of the competition, and thanked them for furthering the understanding of the Japanese culture.

Nakayama made a cameo appearance in the season finale of the game show I Survived a Japanese Game Show.


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