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4 unusual facts about Oyama, Shizuoka


2007 Japanese Grand Prix

The 2007 Japanese Grand Prix (formally the XXXIII Fuji Television Japanese Grand Prix) was a Formula One motor race held on 30 September 2007 at the Fuji Speedway, Oyama, Shizuoka.

2010 Super GT season

The 300km race at Fuji scheduled to be held on September 12 was cancelled due to the serious damage to Oyama, the town where the circuit is located, caused by the typhoon Malou.

2013 6 Hours of Fuji

The 2013 6 Hours of Fuji was intended to have been an automobile endurance race held at the Fuji Speedway, Oyama, Japan on 20 October 2013.

2013 JAF Grand Prix

It took place over November 23 and November 24, 2013 at the Fuji Speedway in Oyama, Shizuoka, 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,

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.

Gareth Roe

His company sponsors the RoeRacing Slalom Skateboard Team, which includes Michael Dong, the 2003, 2004, and 2005 World Cyber Slalom Champion and Judi Oyama Women's Slalom World Champion in 2003 and number one Women's Masters Slalom Champion for 2005 and 2006.

Hakuoh University women's basketball

Hakuoh University women's basketball team is a Japanese basketball team based in Oyama, Tochigi Prefecture.

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

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.

Kōshō Tateishi

Kōshō Tateishi establishes "Shugen-Honshu Furaisan Shōkakuin" (a section of Kinbusen temple) in Oyama 1256 Kumanogawa-chō, Shingū, Wakayama to feel the elements and to experience, and trains day and night.

Mas Oyama

Takuma Sakazaki (a.k.a. "Mr. Karate"), a character from SNK's King of Fighters and Art of Fighting video game franchises, was inspired by Mas Oyama.

Mimana

According to her, a second theory about Mimana was proposed by a North Korean scholar Gim Seokhyeong, who proposed that it was in fact Koreans who had a colony on Japanese islands, somewhere around Oyama prefecture, and thus Nihongi should be understood as referring only to the Japanese lands, not the Korean peninsula.

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

Ōtori Keisuke

One unit was marched towards Nikkō, defeating an Imperial Army detachment on the way at Koyama in Shimotsuke Province.

Ōyama Iwao

Ōyama Iwao is the first recorded Japanese customer for Louis Vuitton, having purchased some luggage during his stay in France.

Ōyama Sutematsu

Sutematsu married the Imperial Japanese Army general (and former Satsuma retainer) Ōyama Iwao; rather ironically, Ōyama had served as an artilleryman during the bombardment of Sutematsu's hometown of Aizu.

Oyama, British Columbia

Oyama is named after Japanese field martial Ōyama Iwao in 1906 by the first post master Dr. W. H. Irvine.

Oyama, Shizuoka

A small post town existed in this area since the Heian period, as Oyama is located at the base of the Ashigara Pass on the main route connecting the ancient provinces of Sagami with Kai and Suruga Provinces.

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).

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.

Surviving Japan

Making appearances in the film are Helen Caldicott, founder of PSR; professor Cham Dallas a disaster management specialist; Kimiaki Toda, Mayor of Ofunato; Tokyo Electric Power Company, owner and operator of Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant; Katsunobu Sakurai, Mayor of Minamisōma and Kouichi Oyama, City Councilman of Minamisōma.

Terutomo Yamazaki

Yamazaki consulted with Masutatsu Ōyama and Ōyama obtained clearance for Yamazaki to open a karate dojo at Ōmiya in 1977.

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.

Yoshiji Soeno

Soeno practiced with the senior pupils who were Shigeru Ōyama, Yasuhiko Ōyama (both from The World Ōyama Karate in the United States - Shigeru is Sōshu and Yasuhiko is Saikō Shihan), Tadashi Nakamura and Hideyuki Ashihara at the time.


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