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unusual facts about Shin'yoshitomi, Fukuoka


Kōge, Fukuoka

The town was founded on October 11, 2005 by the merger of the villages of Shin'yoshitomi and Taihei, all from Chikujō District.


2005 Fukuoka earthquake

Fukuoka's most famous major fault, the Kego fault, runs northwest to southeast, roughly parallel to Nishitetsu's Ōmuta train line, and was thought to be 22 km long, terminating at Hakata Bay.

2012 Tel Aviv bus bombing

On 22 October 2013, Shin Bet announced that Mohammed Assi, an Islamic Jihad member, died in a firefight in Bilin with forces that had come to arrest him on suspcicion of his involvement in the bombing.

23rd World Scout Jamboree

The site is located 30 minutes from Shin-Yamaguchi Station on the JR Shinkansen line, which is capable of carrying a large number of passengers.

Allen Law

In 2010, Law married Shin Hui (née Tan), the second daughter of hotelier Wee Wei Ling, businessman Wee Cho Yaw's daughter.

Antony Matkovich

He made his international debut in 2001 at the 2001 World Championships in Fukuoka, Japan where he collected a gold medal by swimming in the heats of the 4 × 200 m freestyle relay.

Bairin Station

Umebayashi Station, a station on the Fukuoka City Subway Nanakuma Line in Jōnan-ku, Fukuoka, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan (the name of the station is written with the same kanji, but pronounced differently)

Baseball in Japan

In December 2004, SoftBank, an internet service provider, purchased the Fukuoka Daiei Hawks to help with finances in the Pacific League.

Boucheron

The distribution network of Boucheron is made of 34 shops located all over the world (Paris, Cannes, Saint-Tropez, Monaco, Beirut, London, San Francisco, Tokyo, Saitama, Yokohama, Fukuoka, Kyoto, Osaka, Hiroshima, Okayama, Nagoya, Taipei, Seoul, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur, Dubai, Baku, Moscow and Almaty) and over 100 certified retailers.

Charizard

Shin-ichiro Miki, the actor who voices James in the original Japanese version of the Pokémon anime, voices Charizard in both the Japanese and English-language versions of the cartoon.

Ciarán Toner

Toner had a race to be fit for the opening day of the 2009–10 football season after having problems with his ear drum in Rochdale's pre-season training camp in Marbella before suffering from shin splints which made him miss the rest of Rochdale's pre season matches.

Dongducheon Rock Festival

The line-up included Megadeth, BUCK-TICK, Cul-de-sac, Shin Joong Hyun, Yoon Do Hyun, Do Won Kyoung, Kim Kyung Ho, Lee Eun Mi, Crash, Crying Nut, Sinawe, Blackhole, Gigs, Black Syndrome, 3rd Line Butterfly, Rainysun, Bulldog Mansion, Diablo, No Brain, Pia, Jeremy, Frida Kahlo and Lazybone

Francisco José Maldonado

During the summer of 2006, Betis re-signed Maldonado from Lorca for 62,000, with the player donning shirt number 24 due to his love for the television show 24 (he also had a Jack Bauer tattoo on his right shin).

Fukuoka Subway 3000 series

Unlike the 1000 series and 2000 series trains operated on the Kūkō Line and Hakozaki Line, the 3000 series trains are standard gauge (1,435 mm) and use linear motor propulsion.

Great Hanshin earthquake

The Kobe Luminarie, a small city of Christmas lights, is set up in the middle of Kobe City, as well as near Shin-Kobe Station every December in commemoration of the earthquake.

Hanja

For example, the hanja 辛 (sin or shin, meaning sour or hot) appears prominently on packages of Shin Ramyun noodles.

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.

Jim Rodwell

In 1995, Rodwell captained the Great Britain University side at the World Student Games in Fukuoka, Japan.

Katsuya Terada

He was in charge of the book cover and illustrations for the Kimaira series written by Baku Yumemakura, and was in charge of cover design and illustrations for Garouden, Shin Majugari, and Yamigarishi as well.

Kawanishi K-7 Transport Seaplane

The K-7A entered service on Nippon Kokus service between Osaka and Fukuoka in January 1925, mainly carrying airmail rather than passengers.

Marcos Prado Troyjo

Troyjo has been chosen one of "The Outstanding Young Persons of the World - TOYP" along with HM Queen Rania of Jordan and robotics scientist Takanori Shibata by the Junior Chamber International during its 2004 World Congress held in Fukuoka, Japan.

Moon Shin

Moon Shin(in Hangul:문신, in Hanja:文信, January 16, 1923 ~ May 24, 1995) was a South Korean painter and sculptor whose childhood name was Moon ahn-shin.

Motor protein

Shin'ichi Ishiwata, a scientist who specializes in the study of the chemistry and mechanics of muscles and motor proteins

MS Aramis

Three-hundred of these POWs were sent to Fukuoka Camp 6 in Orio, 350 POWs were sent to Fukuoka Camp 21 in Nakama, 100 Dutch POWs were sent to Fukuoka Camp 9 Miyata, and 250 including 150 Australian POWs were allocated to Mitsui to work in their coal mines at PW Fukuoka Camp 17 in Ōmuta.

My Daughter Seo-young

However, her life will take a dramatic change after being hired by the wealthy Kang family as a live-in tutor their youngest son, Kang Sung-jae (Lee Jung-shin).

Nikolai Shin

In 2001, Shin's life story was made into a documentary film Sky-Blue Hometown, directed by Kim So-young.

Nishigō, Fukushima

Nishigo is also one of the smallest towns in Japan to have a Shinkansen (bullet train) station, located at Shin-Shirakawa (new Shirakawa) on the Tōhoku branch.

Omuta

Shin-Ōmuta Station, a shinkansen train station located in Ōmuta, Fukuoka, Japan

Ōmuta Station, a train station located in Omuta, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan

OPA co. ltd.

opened the 'Oriental Park Avenue' store in September 1988 in front of the Sanyo Shinkansen Shin-Kobe Station.

Peter Shin

Peter Shin is an animator who served as supervising director of Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story, the director of Big Bug Man, the director of Family Guy episodes "Death Has a Shadow", "Emission Impossible", "North by North Quahog", and "It's a Trap!", and was a character layout artist The Simpsons for several episodes between 1990 and 1995.

Romantic St.

The song was composed and arranged by a team of songwriters including Matthew Heath, Hailey Collier, DK, Jordan Kyle, Hyuk Shin and Jee Yoon Yoo.

Sanjō Station

Sanjō Station (Fukuoka) (山上駅) - Hobashira Cable in Yahatahigashi-ku, Kitakyushu, FUkuoka Prefecture

Shimizu Tunnel

There are three tunnels near each other, which are the Shimizu Tunnel, the Shin-Shimizu Tunnel, and the Dai-Shimizu Tunnel.

Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner 2: Raidou Kuzunoha vs. King Abaddon

The Pokémon-styled capturing mechanism present in the previous game is no more; instead, Raidou can now negotiate with enemy monsters to try to persuade or bribe them to join his side (a tactic employed in many other Shin Megami Tensei games).

Shin Se-kyung

On October 20, 2010, Shin and popular boy band SHINee member Jonghyun were spotted dating by a local news outlet; their agencies confirmed the relationship on October 26th.

Shin Suk-ja

Shin Suk-ja (also spelled Shin Sook-ja; born 1942) is a South Korean prisoner of North Korea, imprisoned with her daughters in Yodok concentration camp after her husband Oh Kil-nam defected from North Korea to Denmark.

Shin Yong-mok

Shin was influenced by older-generation activist poets, so-called "poets of the masses" (minjung shiin), such as Kim Nam-ju and Shin Kyeong-nim, and genuinely anguished over the problem of the path literature should take in society and history.

Shin-ik Hahm

He studied Music Education,College of Education at Konkuk University in Seoul,and left for the United States in 1983 with just US$400 in his pocket.

Shin-Maiko Station

It is located 22.5 rail kilometers from the terminus of the line at Jingū-mae Station.

Shin-Yakushi-ji

His right arm is lifted showing the Mudra of no fear (Abhayamudra) while his left arm rests on his leg with the palm of his hand turned up holding a medicine pot.

Shin'a'in

The Shin'a'in (translation: People of the Plains) are a fictional ethnographic group created by fantasy author Mercedes Lackey.

Sukjunamul

Unlike his colleagues (later called Sayuksin) who had all pledged allegiance to King Danjeong, Shin Suk-ju betrayed them in favor of Danjeong's uncle, Grand Prince Suyang (later King Sejo), who usurped the throne from his nephew and had him killed.

Super Tokkyū

The service is proposed by GCTs using the Hakata to Shin-Tosu section of the Kyushu Shinkansen, then the narrow gauge line to Takeo Onsen, then the new West Kyushu Shinkansen line for the final section of the trip.

T-ara Japan Tour 2013: Treasure Box

The tour began on September 4, 2013, at Fukuoka Sun Palace, Japan and ended on September 27 at the Nippon Budokan in Tokyo, Japan.

Thaicom 6

Thaicom 6 is a Thai television satellite of the Thaicom series, to be operated by Thaicom Public Company Limited (formerly Shin Satellite Public Company Limited), a subsidiary of Shin Corporation headquartered in Bangkok, Thailand.

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.

Unit 124

At the time of the identification by Kim Shin-Jo, Park was believed to be an aide to Kim Jong-il and vice minister of the North Korean People's Armed Forces.


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