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unusual facts about Shirakawa, Fukushima



10572 Kominejo

It is named for Komine Castle in Shirakawa, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan; the total solar eclipse of August 19, 1887, was observed from the castle.

13th century in poetry

Princess Shikishi 式子内親王 (died 1201), late Heian and early Kamakura period poet, never-married daughter of Emperor Go-Shirakawa; entered service at the Kamo Shrine in Kyoto in 1159, later left the shrine, in later years a Buddhist nun; has 49 poems in the Shin Kokin Shū anthology

715 series

The sets were rebuilt from surplus former 581/583 series EMU cars at JNR factories in Tsuchisaki (Akita), Kōriyama (Fukushima), Mattō (Ishikawa), and Kokura (Kitakyūshū).

David Muir

In 2011, Muir reported from Tahrir Square during the political revolution in Egypt and from Fukushima, Japan following the deadly tsunami and nuclear power plant accident.

Ebisu

Ebisu Circuit, a motorsport circuit in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan

Emperor Go-Shirakawa

1169 (Kaō 1, 6th month): Emperor Go-Shirakawa entered the Buddhist priesthood at the age of 42.

Fujiwara no Kiyohira

Secondly it was determined to be the center of their realm, Ōshū, as measured from the Shirakawa Barrier in the south to Sotogahama in present day Aomori Prefecture in the north.

Fujiwara no Nobuyori

Though Fujiwara no Michinori and the Taira clan supported Nijō, Nobuyori and his Minamoto allies supported Go-Shirakawa's bid to retain some influence and power.

Fukushima disaster

Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, in which the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant was heavily damaged by the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami

Fukushima Incident, political tumult in 1882 in Fukushima Prefecture

Fukushima Yasumasa

In any case, Fukushima was an admirer of Colonel Burnaby, a British cavalry officer, who had made an epic ride to Khiva in 1874 after receiving word that the Russians had closed the border to Turkistan.

Futabasaurus

The first fossils of Futabasaurus were found in the Irimazawa Member of the Tamayama Formation, Futaba Group, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, dating to the Inoceramus amakusensis zone of the early Santonian.

Iizaka

Fukushima Kōtsū Iizaka Line, the train line that links Iizaka Onsen Station to Fukushima Station

Iizaka onsen

Iizaka Onsen Station, a train station on the Iizaka Line in Iizaka, Fukushima

Investigations into the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster

On 24 October 2011 the first meeting was held by a group of 6 nuclear energy specialists invited by NISA to discuss the lessons to be learned from the accidents in Fukushima.

Jan Beránek

In 2011, he acted as a head of the Greenpeace’s global crisis response team to Fukushima nuclear disaster.

Japan National Route 289

The eastern part of Route 289 starts in Iwaki, Fukushima near Nakoso Station.

Japanese unified local elections, 2007

The House of Councillors by-elections were won by one LDP-Kōmeitō supported candidate (Aiko Shimajiri in Okinawa) as replacement for OSMP Councillor Keiko Itokazu, and one Democrat (Teruhiko Mashiko in Fukushima) as replacement for Democrat Yūhei Satō, producing a net gain of one seat for the ruling centre-right coalition three months before the regular House of Councillors election of 2007.

Kenichi Ohmae

In 2011, he became a Project director for Team "H2O", and coordinated in preparing the report "What should we learn from the severe accident at the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant?" and submitted the same to Goshi Hosono, the Minister of Environment & Minister for the Restoration of Nuclear Accident.

Kesteven and Grantham Girls' School

The school's connection with Minami High School, Fukushima, Japan, involves a group of Japanese students visiting Grantham each year.

Kusano

Kusano, Fukushima, village located in Iwaki District, Fukushima Prefecture

Megan Rice

Discussion of encounter with Rice in Devil's Tango: How I Learned the Fukushima Step by Step by Cecile Pineda (2012), Chapter 78, "Two Halves Make One Whole", pp.

Miya River

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

Morito Suganuma

Born in Fukushima, Japan, his first contact with aikido was in 1963 at the Asia University in Tokyo where he followed a class taught by Nobuyoshi Tamura.

Naoki Yamamoto

-- also translation from the Japanese page --> He was born in Matsumae District, Fukushima, Hokkaido

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.

Nuclear power in Germany

Physicist Amory Lovins has said: "Chancellor Merkel was so shocked by Fukushima that she turned Germany’s energy focus from nuclear (of which she closed 41% and will close the rest within a decade) to efficiency and renewables. That’s supported by three-fourths of Germans and opposed by no political party".

Okuma

Ōkuma, Fukushima (大熊町; -machi), a town located in Futaba District, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan

Radiation monitoring in Japan

Greenpeace sent radiology experts to the villages of Iitate and Tsushima in the Fukushima Prefecture.

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.

San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station

Speakers included two Japanese residents who lived through the Fukushima meltdowns and Raymond Lutz.

Shirakawa, Fukushima

Shirakawa is the location of the village to which silk egg merchant Herve Joncour travels in the novel Silk by Alessandro Baricco, first published in 1997.

Shirasawa

Shirasawa, Fukushima, village located in Adachi District, Fukushima, Japan

Spiez Laboratory

verification Laboratory, Or Swiss Air Force Eurocopter AS332 Super Puma Helicopters or Northrop F-5 Tiger II for air measurements (e.g. after the Fukushima event).

Tadami

Tadami Dam, dam on the Tadami River, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan

Takayama Main Line

Now the line primarily functions as a way to access the scenic areas of Hida (ancient Hida Province), in the rugged mountains of northern Gifu Prefecture, such as Gero onsen (hot spring), Takayama, Shirakawa-gō, and the "Japan Rhine" (Kiso River).

Toho Bank

Toho Bank also operates some branches outside of Fukushima prefecture, with branches in Utsunomiya, Miyagi Prefecture, and Tokyo, among others.

Toyo Ito

Architects who previously worked for his office include Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa (SANAA), Astrid Klein and Mark Dytham (KDa), Katsuya Fukushima, Makoto Yokomizo, and Akihisa Hirata.


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