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unusual facts about Sakai, Nagano


Chikuhoku, Nagano

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


1997–98 Calgary Flames season

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

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.

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).

Asadabad District

By 2002, all of the district except Sakai and Gira villages had been de-mined by MDC.

Cleyera japonica

In reconstructed Old Japanese, sakaki < sakakī and sakai "boundary" were "monograde" (一段) while sakae "flourishing" was "bigrade" (二段).

Edward St. John Neale

Background (from left to right): Three Japanese governors of Yokohama, Duchesne de Bellecourt, Daimyo Sakai-Hida-no-Kami, Colonel Neale (British representative in Japan), Admiral Jaurès, Admiral Kuper.

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.

Generación de la Ruptura

Prominent members of the movement include José Luis Cuevas, Vicente Rojo Almazan, Roger von Gunten, Alberto Gironella, Vlady, Juan Soriano, Lilia Carrillo, Arnaldo Coen, Pedro Coronel, Enrique Echeverria, Manuel Felguérez, Fernando Garcia Ponce, Brian Nissen, Gabriel Ramirez, Kazuya Sakai and Gustavo Arias Murueta.

Girard incident

Specialist Third Class Girard, a 21-year-old enlisted man from Ottawa, Illinois, used a grenade launcher mounted on an M1 rifle to fire an empty casing at Sakai, which killed her.

Gord Broseker

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

Hiroyoshi Nishizawa

In the night of 16 May, Nishizawa, Sakai and Ōta were listening at the lounge room to a broadcast of an Australian radio program, when Nishizawa recognized the eerie Danse Macabre of the French composer, pianist and organist Camille Saint-Saëns.

Izumi Sakai

Graduating from Shoin Women's College (now Shoin University) in Atsugi City, Kanagawa, Sakai worked in a real estate company office for two years before being scouted by Stardust Promotion.

Japanese community of London

Junko Sakai, author of Japanese Bankers in the City of London: Language, Culture and Identity in the Japanese Diaspora, stated that there is no particular location for the Japanese community in London, but that the families of Japanese "company men" have a tendency of living in North London and West London.

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.

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.

Ken Choy

Choy co-organized ID Film Fest and the Asian American Independent Features Conference with Quentin Lee and Koji Steven Sakai in October 2010 at the Japanese American National Museum, continuing with his Battle of the Pitches competition along with the API TV Pilot Shootout and a Filmmaker's Crash Course.

Kōji Sakai

From 1927-1929, Sakai served on Japan's delegation to League of Nations.

Majokko Tickle

Script: Mitsuru Majima, Tatsuo Tamura, Yoshimi Shinozaki, Sukehiro Tomita, Hirohisa Soda, Akiyoshi Sakai, Naoko Miyake, Masaki Tsuji, Kunihiko Yuyama, Kôzô Takagaki, Yû Yamamoto, Toyohiro Andô, Tomoko Konparu

Masaaki Sakai

Sakai is known in Japan as a car enthusiast and regularly took part in the annual Mille Miglia race in Italy with his wife as a co-driver.

Miki Sakai

In January 2008, Miki Sakai appeared in the 10-hour long TV historical drama Tokugawa Fūunroku Hachidai Shōgun Yoshimune.

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.

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 Cameron Scott

They arrived off the east African coast in October, and in little more than a year his idea was to establish a network had four stations—at Kalamba, Sakai, Kilungu, and Kangundo, all in Kenya.

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.

Phantasy Star Online

While creating concept art for the game, Sakai drew a dragon and showed it to Yuji Naka, the director of Sonic Team, who connected the image with the Phantasy Star series of games that had been released for the Sega Genesis.

Sakai incident

This incident was dramatised in a famous short story, Sakai Jiken, by Mori Ōgai.

Sakai Project

"Sakai" is a play on the word “chef,” and refers to Iron Chef Hiroyuki Sakai.

This page is about the software project, for other meanings, see Sakai.

In 2006 the Sakai Foundation named Dr. Charles Severance, who previously had served as Chief Architect, as its first Executive Director.

Sakai, Fukui

Chosei Komatsu (from Mikuni) - Artistic Director of Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional de Costa Rica

Samurai Jack: The Shadow of Aku

The player can also fill Jack's "Zen meter", which allows him to enter a special slow-motion attack mode called "Sakai mode", among other things.

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".

Shigeno

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

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.

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.

Takeno Jōō

While carrying on the family business in Sakai, Jōō, whose common name was Shingorō (新五郎), did religious duty as an attendant at the Honganji temple in the Yamashina region of Kyoto.

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.

Toshiro Kandagawa

He defeated Iron Chef Hiroyuki Sakai in this battle, which was one of the few that Sakai lost where seafood was the main ingredient.

Tsuda Sōgyū

Around the year 1574, he became one of the three merchant-class tea masters of Sakai to be in charge of chanoyu (Japanese tea ceremony) affairs for Nobunaga; a position referred to as chatō (lit., "tea head").

和田

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


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