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2 unusual facts about Seki, Gifu


Japanese cutlery

Seki, Gifu is today considered the home of modern Japanese kitchen cutlery, where state-of-the-art manufacturing and technology has updated ancient forging skills to produce a world-class series of stainless and laminated steel kitchen knives famed throughout the world.

SOG Specialty Knives

Many of SOG's folding knives and multi-tools are made or assembled in the USA, with the higher priced folders and fixed blades being made in Seki, Japan.


10803 Caléyo

It is named after Jose M. Caléyo, a jazz musician from Havana, Cuba, who was inspired after seeing Comet Ikeya-Seki.

Anna Watkins

In 2005, Watkins made her senior international debut with the Women's Eight, achieving a 5th place at the World Championships in Gifu, Japan.

Battle of Gifu

Battle of Mount Austen, the Galloping Horse, and the Sea Horse in Guadalcanal in 1943, sometimes called the Battle of the Gifu

Battle of Mount Austen, the Galloping Horse, and the Sea Horse

The Battle of Mount Austen, the Galloping Horse, and the Sea Horse, part of which is sometimes called the Battle of the Gifu, took place from 15 December 1942 to 23 January 1943 and was primarily an engagement between United States and Imperial Japanese forces in the hills near the Matanikau River area on Guadalcanal during the Guadalcanal Campaign.

Catherine Gude

She bested 45 other contestants to win the title in Gifu, Japan.

Chuno

Chūnō, the central portion of Gifu Prefecture in the Chūbu region of Japan

Deniz Seki

After being kept in detention for two days, she was released without charge, however, on February 23, 2009 Deniz Seki was rearrested by Drug Squad officers and detained in Zekeriyaköy Gendarmerie station at the request of the public prosecutor.

Faramarz Aslani

Ajda Pekkan, an internationally known Turkish singer, as well as Deniz Seki have recorded this song in Turkish and other artists have recorded it in many other languages.

Gramática do Kamaiurá, Língua Tupi-Guarani do Alto Xingu

From the back cover endorsement by linguist R. M. W. Dixon: In fact, Dr. Seki's book on the Kamayurá is the first comprehensive grammar of an Indian language by a Brazilian since Anchieta's description of Tupinambá in 1595.

Hashima

Hashima District, Gifu (羽島郡), a nearby district in Gifu Prefecture, Japan

Hokuriku Bank

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

Hyōka

The story is set in Kamiyama City, a fictional city in Gifu Prefecture that the author based on his real hometown of Takayama, also in Gifu.

Japan National Route 6

During the Ritsuryō period, roads from Kinai to the Tagajō were divided into two: the Tōkaidō eastern sea road (via Nagoya, Hamamatsu, Tokyo and Mito) and the Tōsandō eastern mountain road (via Gifu, Shiojiri, Takasaki and Utsunomiya).

Kanō Station

Gifu Station in Gifu, Gifu, originally called Kanō Station when it opened, served by Central Japan Railway

Magic 45 minutes

The Magic 45 Minutes describes the duration of one of the most rewarding sporting periods in the history of New Zealand during which four New Zealand rowing teams won gold medals in four successive finals to be the most successful country at the 2005 World Rowing Championships in Gifu, Japan.

Miya River

Jinzū River, a major river in Gifu and Toyama prefectures that is often called the "Miya River"

Osaka, Aichi, and the Gifu continuous torture-murder event

And, after two men of company employee's one man (20 years old at that time) and the part-time job (19 years old at that time) were obstinately assaulted with the iron pipe etc. in Nagara river area of Gifu, it murdered it.

Popotan

Seki Hayabusa and Iwashinichi Shimizu handled scenario development, and Akio Watanabe designed its characters while working under the alias Poyoyon♥Rock.

Prince Shōtoku

A number of institutes are named after him, such as Shotoku Gakuen University and its associated junior college (both in Gifu).

Šeki snima, pazi se

Considering football sensation Dragoslav Šekularac (nicknamed Šeki, hence the film's title) was probably the first sports superstar in Yugoslavia whose fame transcended sporting bounds, the popularity he enjoyed during his playing heyday was the main reason that Šeki snima, pazi se came about.

Seki Takakazu

Another of Seki's contributions was the rectification of the circle, i.e. the calculation of pi; he obtained a value for π that was correct to the 10th decimal place, using what is now called "Aitken's delta-squared process," rediscovered in the 20th century by Alexander Aitken.

Vlach Quartet

They had a Residency in 1997 in the Japanese University town of Gifu and were broadcast by NHK, Japan's principal station.

Yamazaki Station

Mino-Yamazaki Station, on the Yoro Railway Yoro Line in Nannocho, Kaizu, Gifu, Japan

Yokoya

Yokoya Station, a train station in Mizuho, Gifu Prefecture, Japan

Zac Purchase

Purchase became under-23 world champion at the 2005 world U-23 championships in Amsterdam, before taking silver at the 2005 World Rowing Championships at Gifu, Japan.

白山

Mount Haku (白山), an inactive volcano on the borders of Gifu, Fukui and Ishikawa prefectures in Japan


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