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unusual facts about Sapporo, Hokkaido



1985 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships

Eight teams contested the second tier this year in Sapporo Japan from March 15 to 24.

Ainu languages

The historical Ainu of (southern) Hokkaido appear to be a fusion of this culture, known archeologically as Satsumon, and the very different Nivkh- and Kamchadal-like Okhotsk culture of (northern) Hokkaido, with Satsumon being dominant.

Akira Machida

In 1961 he was appointed as an assistant judge to the Tokyo District and its Family Court, the judge of the Muroran branch of the Sapporo District and its Family Court, and the judge of the Civil Affairs Bureau of the General Secretariat of the Supreme Court.

Andrea Morassi

Morassi's best finish at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships was 11th in the team large hill event at Liberec in 2009 while his best individual finish was 22nd in the individual large hill event at Sapporo two years earlier.

Antsiferov Island

The island was formerly administered as part of Shimushu District of Nemuro Subprefecture of Hokkaidō.

Brett Camerota

Camerota's best finish at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships was 31st in the 15 km individual Gundersen event at Sapporo in 2007.

Broutona

The island was formerly administered as part of Uruppu District of Nemuro Subprefecture of Hokkaidō.

Chyornie Bratya

The islands were formerly administered as part of Uruppu District of Nemuro Subprefecture of Hokkaidō.

Cypripedium macranthum var. rebunense

rebunense, the Rebun lady's slipper orchid, known as Rebun atsumorisō in Japan, is a species of orchid native to Rebun Island in Hokkaidō.

CZW World Junior Heavyweight Championship

Jun Kasai won the title in Sapporo, while Acid reclaimed the title in Yokohama.

FIL European Luge Championships 2008

The tie for the bronze was the first in a Winter Olympic, world championship, or European championship event since they started timing luge in the 1/1000ths of a second following the tie between Italy and East Germany in the men's doubles event at the 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo.

Fujinokawa Takeo

Fujinokawa Takeo (born 26 September 1946 as Takeo Morita) is a former sumo wrestler from Otofuke, Hokkaido, Japan.

Glay discography

Beloved:theme song for TBS's drama "ひと夏のプロポーズ"/"Hokkaido Shumbun Press" commercial movie.

Hanamizuki

Later, when Sae needs to leave Hokkaido to go to Tokyo for studies, the two of them attempted to have a long distance relationship.

Hudson Soft

It was headquartered in the Midtown Tower in Tokyo Midtown, Akasaka, Minato, Tokyo, Japan, with an additional office in the Hudson Building in Sapporo.

Japanese destroyer Namikaze

At the time of the attack on Pearl Harbor, Namikaze was based at the Ōminato Guard District in northern Japan, and was assigned to patrols of the Hokkaidō and Chishima Islands coastlines.

Japanese tree frog

The Japanese tree frog (Hyla japonica) is a species of tree frog distributed from Hokkaidō to Yakushima in Japan and from Korea along the Ussuri River to northeastern China, northern Mongolia, and the southern Russian Far East.

Jungle Smile

They enjoyed considerable popularity in the late 1990s due to their songs being used in TV commercials for Japan Airlines and Hokkaido Engineering Academy, and are known to anime fans for their contribution of the ending theme of DT Eightron, "Onaji Hoshi" in 1998 and the ending theme of Super GALS! Kotobuki Ran, "Dakishimetai" in 2001.

KiHa 141 series

A large number of locomotive-hauled 50 series coaches became surplus to requirements following electrification of lines in the Sapporo area of Hokkaido in the late 1980s.

Kiritappu Wetland

Kiritappu Wetland is on the northeast side of Japan, on the east side of Hokkaidō, facing the Pacific Ocean between Kushiro and Nemuro.

Larval Stage Planning

The group is also a member of the Sapporo-based music production group I've Sound.

Les Olympiades

The eight tallest towers are each 104 metres (341 feet) tall and are named after cities that have hosted the Olympic games: Anvers (Antwerp), Athènes (Athens), Cortina, Helsinki, Londres (London), Mexico, Sapporo, and Tokyo.

Levanga Hokkaido

Levanga plays its home games mainly at the Hokkaido Prefectural Sports Center and the Tsukisamu Dome, but, as the team represents the entire Hokkaido Prefecture, also plays some home-games at the Atsubetsu Ward Gymnasium, Otaru City Gymnasium, Eniwa City Gymnasium, Obihiro City Gymnasium & Kushiro Shitsugen no Kaze Arena.

Lonicera alpigena

L. glehnii F. Schmidt, which is native to Sakhalin, Kurile Islands, Hokkaido and Honshu, is sometimes considered as a geographically disjunct subspecies of Alpine Honeysuckle, L. alpigena L. subsp.

Louis Boehmer

In January 1871, when Kuroda Kiyotaka was in the United States hiring foreign advisors for his Hokkaidō Colonization Office, Boehmer was recommended as a horticulturist by a mutual friend of Horace Capron.

Mats Wallberg

Mats Wallberg (born February 21, 1949 in Gunnarskog) is a former ice speed skater from Sweden, who represented his native country in two consecutive Winter Olympics, starting in 1972 in Sapporo, Japan.

Matsuura

Mount Midori, also known as Mount Matsuura, a mountain located in the Daisetsuzan Volcanic Group of the Ishikari Mountains, Hokkaidō, Japan

Misawa Airport

Initially served by Toa Airways with McDonnell Douglas DC-9 and MD-80 aircraft to Tokyo (Haneda), Sapporo (Chitose), and Osaka Itami, operations were upgraded to Airbus A300 aircraft after Toa Airways became Japan Air System in 1988.

Naval Air Facility Adak

By the end of October, the Japanese had decided to pull out most of its garrison to Attu, which they believed was worth retaining, and began transporting additional units from Hokkaido to Attu and began upgrading their defenses.

Polygonia c-aureum

The Asian Comma (Polygonia c-aureum) is a middle-size butterfly found in Japan (from Hokkaidō to Tanegashima), Korean Peninsula, China, Taiwan, and Indochina.

R. orientalis

Rhynchelmis orientalis, a freshwater worm species found on Hokkaidō, Japan

Red-faced Cormorant

The Red-faced Cormorant, Red-faced Shag or Violet Shag (Phalacrocorax urile) is a species of cormorant that is found in the far north of the Pacific Ocean and Bering Sea, from the eastern tip of Hokkaidō in Japan, via the Kuril Islands, the southern tip of the Kamchatka Peninsula and the Aleutian Islands to the Alaska Peninsula and Gulf of Alaska.

Roland Thöni

His best year was 1972, which he opened with a bronze medal in the slalom at the Winter Olympics in Sapporo, finishing behind his cousin Gustav and Francisco Fernández Ochoa, the gold medalist from Spain.

Ronny Heer

Heer's best finish at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships was fifth in the 4 x 5 km team event at Sapporo in 2007 while his best individual finish was 14th in the 10 km individual normal hill event at Liberec two years later.

Sapporo Factory

The building was formerly a brewery that belonged to the Kaitakushi, the old government of Hokkaidō prefecture, and later owned by the Sapporo Beer Company, the predecessor of the Sapporo Brewery.

Sapporo Ichiban

Sapporo Ichiban literally means "Sapporo's number one noodle", but there is no relation between Sapporo Ichiban and the city of Sapporo, Hokkaido.

Shinonome Station

See also Tōun Station in Hokkaido (written with the same kanji but with different pronunciation).

Tai Ho Wan

In 1999, the Hong Kong Government designated Tai Ho Stream as the 63rd Site of Special Scientific Interest due to the discovery of the Ayu (plecoglossus altivelis) in the river, which cannot be found anywhere in the world except for waters in Hokkaidō, and Hong Kong.

Tapio Räisänen

Räisänen's best non-world championship career finish was 9th in a normal hill event at Bischofshofen, Austria in 1979, and 1st in Japan, Sapporo large hill 1980.

Teine

Teine-ku, Sapporo, an administrative district of the city of Sapporo, Hokkaidō, Japan

Tōyako

Lake Tōya, known as "Tōyako" in Japanese, a volcanic caldera lake in Shikotsu-Toya National Park, Abuta District, Iburi Subprefecture, Hokkaidō, Japan

Toyohira-ku, Sapporo

Hitsujigaoka Observation Hill - where visitors can view the scene of Sapporo City from the hill, also famous for the bronze statue of William S. Clark

Twilight Express

Trains for Sapporo depart Osaka at 11:50, and call at Shin-Ōsaka, Kyoto, Tsuruga, Fukui, Kanazawa, Takaoka, Toyama, Naoetsu, and Nagaoka, with the final passenger pick-up made at Niitsu at 19:39.

Water supply and sanitation in Japan

The average unaccounted for sewerage is 12%, varying from 6% in Shiga to 30% in Sapporo.

Wild Bird Society of Japan

After 15 years of lobbying by WBSJ and many other conservation organisations, the Hokkaido Government decided not to build drainage channels along the Chitose River in Chitose, Hokkaidō.


see also

Eastern Youth

Eastern Youth was formed as Scanners in 1989 by childhood friends Hisashi Yoshino and Atsuya Tamori in Sapporo, Hokkaidō.