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unusual facts about Sado, Niigata


Tarai Bune

A Tarai Bune or tub-turned boat is a traditional Japanese fishing boat found mainly on Sado Island and used for catching Abalone and other mollusks.


Adam Swandi

Together with Muhaimin Suhaimi and four other students at the Singapore Sports School, Adam was chosen to undergo a ten-day training camp in Niigata, Japan in March 2012 with the youth team of Albirex Niigata.

Companhia das Lezírias

It comprised 48,000 hectares of land located between the Tagus and Sado Rivers.

Danzaburou-danuki

Danzaburou was a human merchant's name in Echigo, and in Meireki 3 (1657), there were on sale for-breeding small tanuki that were used in the Sado gold mines for taking skins for the sides of bellows, and afterwards Danzaburou, who started taking care of the tanuki in Sado, was sidely respected by the islands, and there is a theory that the tanuki itself was worshiped like an ujigami.

For First Time Lovers

YongSeo Couple had their first live stage performance of Banmal Song at Big Swan Stadium in Niigata, Japan.

Fumiko Enchi

A precocious child, at age 13, her reading list included the works of Oscar Wilde, Edgar Allan Poe, Kyōka Izumi, Nagai Kafū, Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, and especially Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, whose sado-masochistic aestheticism particularly fascinated her.

Haruo Tomiyama

In 1994 Tomiyama was shown the archive of glass plates by the then-forgotten Sado-based amateur photographer Tomio Kondō.

Hernâni Neves

In a career greatly hampered by injuries, Hernâni only played one solid season as a professional, 1987–88, appearing in 23 out of 38 matches to help the Sado club finish in eighth position and attracting attention of top division powerhouse S.L. Benfica, which signed him in the subsequent off-season.

Hokuriku Bank

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

Honma clan

His death sparked a new rows of hostilities between the two branches, but Uesugi Kagekatsu invaded Sado in 1589, putting an end to clan's rule.

Island of Exiles

The story follows Sugawara Akitada, who is assigned by two shadowy officials to investigate the fatal poisoning on penal colony on Sado Island of the exiled and disgraced Prince Okisada.

Iwamuro, Niigata

During the period of the Tokugawa shogunate, Maze was one of the ferry points to the banishment island of Sado.

James Bultman

Bultman also earned an honorary degree from Keiwa College in Shibata City, Japan.

Jōetsu

Jōetsu Shinkansen, a high-speed shinkansen railway line connecting Tokyo and Niigata

Jōetsu region, a geographical region in Niigata Prefecture or in the old provinces of Kōzuke and Echigo

Kameda

Kameda Seika Company Limited of Niigata, Japan, a manufacturer of rice cookies and crackers

Kenji Arai

Arai entered professional football with Albirex Niigata after graduating from Rissho University in 2001 but was unable to hold on to the first team place although he played 20 league games for Albirex Niigata in his first season.

Kiyosato

Kiyosato, Niigata, a ward in the city of Jōetsu, Niigata, formerly a village

Korean tea ceremony

As Korean tea culture died with the advent of Yi Dynasty in 1392, this newly revived "Korean Tea Ceremony," propagated by Panyaro Institute closely resembles the Japanese Tea Ceremony, and is considered an outright copy by the Japanese Sado practitioners, much the same way Tae Kwon Do, Yudo, and Haedong Gumdo are seen as copies of Karate, Judo, and Kendo by the Japanese.

Louise and Liza

"Louise and Liza" is a 7" single by NOFX. The songs are sequels of sorts to "Liza and Louise" from White Trash, Two Heebs and a Bean with the lyrics "Louise" being about the lesbian characters engaging in sado-masochistic activity. The songs are sexually explicit, and lead singer Fat Mike has remarked that the lyrics make him "get embarrassed whenever I see them.

Miya River

Agano River, a river which flows from Fukushima Prefecture to Niigata Prefecture that is often called the "Miya River"

Niigata, Niigata

Poor weather conditions and its distance from B-29 bases in the Mariana Islands meant that it was removed from the list of targets during deliberations; Nagasaki was bombed instead.

Ogata Station

Ōgata Station, train station in Higashi-ku, Niigata, Niigata Prefecture, Japan

Princess Hwawan

Eventually, Princess Hwawan's machinations were discovered by King Jeongjo of Joseon, Crown Prince Sado's son and Princess Hwawan's nephew, and she was sent into exile.

Really Red

They often shared the bill with other such pioneering acts as D.O.A., The Dicks, Circle Jerks, The Offenders, 999, The Lewd, Articles of Faith, Mydolls, SPK, Negative Approach, Sado Nation, MDC, Vex, Culturcide, The Bad Brains, The Effigies, The Big Boys and The Dead Kennedys among many others.

Rolling blackout

This is because about 40 percent of the electricity used in the greater Tokyo area is supplied by nuclear power plants in the Niigata and Fukushima prefectures.

Ryakuji

In Niigata (新潟), the second character 潟 is rare and complex, and is thus simplified as 潟 → 泻(氵 写).

Sado, Amarapura

Sado or Sartoe is a river village on the Myitnge River in Amarapura Township, Mandalay District, in the Mandalay Region of central Burma.

Sasagawa

Ayana Sasagawa (born 1983), Japanese voice actress, born in Niigata Prefecture, Japan

The Convent School, or Early Experiences of A Young Flagellant

The Convent School, or Early Experiences of A Young Flagellant is a 19th-century work of sado-masochistic pornography, written under the pseudonym Rosa Coote and published by William Dugdale in London in 1876.

Tomio Kondō

Kondō was born on 24 January 1900 to a landowning family in Kanazawa village (subsequently part of Kanai, which in turn was amalgamated within "Sado City").

Urasa

Urasa Station, a railway station located in Minamiuonuma, Niigata, Japan

Wakō, Saitama

The story goes that one day, Nichiren the founder of Nichiren sect of Buddhism, dropped in at the house of his old friend, Tokimitsu on his way to Sado.

Yutaka Sado

Sado won first prize and became the third Japanese winner (after Seiji Ozawa in 1959 and Yoko Matsuo in 1982) at the 39th annual International Besançon Competition for Young Conductors in Besançon, France in 1989.

Sado also serves as Artistic Director and Artistic Advisor of the Hyogo Performing Arts Center and principal conductor of the Hyogo Performing Arts Center Orchestra which he helped establish in 2005.


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