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5 unusual facts about Oita


Girraween High School

Under principal Robert Cruikshank, specialist computer rooms and music studios were constructed, and a Sister school relationship with Hisai High school in Mie, Japan was forged.

Inukai

Inukai, Ōita (犬飼町; -machi), former town located in Ōno District, Ōita, Japan

Irina Risenzon

Risenzon had her highest placement at the 2009 World Championships held in Mie, Japan finishing 6th in All-around and at the 2008 European Championships in Torino, Italy finishing 8th in All-around.

Kunimi

Kunimi, Ōita, a town in Higashikunisaki District, Ōita, Japan

Seishiro Etō

He was elected to be the Mayor of the town of Kusu, Ōita in 1971, elected to the House of Councilors in 1977 and the House of Representatives for the first time in 1983.


Hitahikosan Line

The line is named after Hita and Mount Hiko in the prefectural line between Fukuoka and Oita.

Japanese unified local elections, 2007

Ōita: Incumbent Katsusada Hirose wins reelection against only one Communist candidate.

Kamekichi Tokita

Paintings of his were included in 1994's The View from Within: Japanese American Art from the Internment Camps, 1942-1945 at the Japanese American National Museum, in Los Angeles; and in 1995's Japanese and Japanese American Painters in the United States, 1896-1945: A Half Century of Hope and Suffering, which showed in Japan at Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum, Oita Prefectural Art Hall, and the Hiroshima Museum of Art.

Kentaro Nakamoto

Nakamoto began 2013 with a personal best of 2:08:35 hours at the Beppu-Ōita Marathon, taking the runner-up spot behind Yuki Kawauchi, who broke the course record to win.

Mori Station

Bungo-Mori Station, a railway station in Kusu, Kusu District, Oita Prefecture, Japan

Transfield Shipping Inc v Mercator Shipping Inc

With two weeks to go they got a job to carry coals from Qingdao, China across the Yellow Sea to Tobata and Oita, Japan.


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