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4 unusual facts about Sumida


Automotive industry in Japan

Ohta built cars in the 1930s based on Ford models, while Chiyoda built a car resembling a 1935 Pontiac, and Sumida built a car similar to a LaSalle.

Gagamaru Masaru

Having struggled to a 2-4 record after six days he went out drinking with fellow Georgian wrestler Kokkai and the pair allegedly got into a fight at an Indian restaurant in Tokyo's Sumida ward, causing damage to the property.

Martin Burke

He voiced Sonic the Hedgehog in the English-language release of the Sonic OVA, and Sumida in Dai-Guard, while he has also had acting roles in underground films like Lethal Force and Blood Chase.

Sumida M.2593

Designed by the Sumida firm, the M.2593 was produced beginning in 1933 at the Ishikawajima Motor Works.


Senju Thermal Power Station

There was also a power plant by the same name along the banks of the same Sumida River in North Toshima, South Senju from 1905 to 1917.

Skytree

Tokyo Skytree, a broadcasting, restaurant, and observation tower in Sumida, Tokyo, Japan

Sternocleidomastoid muscle

"Even C-3PO has it, in the form of little pistons on his neck. Watch Star Trek: The good guys always have them, and the bad guys don't. It's a classic alien designer trick," notes biologist and Hollywood anatomy consultant Stuart Sumida.

Sumida River

The Noh play Sumida-gawa, which the British composer Benjamin Britten saw while visiting Japan in 1956, inspired him to compose Curlew River (1964), a dramatic work based on the story.

Tanuki-bayashi

In the Edo period, in Honjo, Sumida, Tokyo, they are also called baka-bayashi (馬鹿囃子), and as a ghost story that takes place in Honjo, they are counted as one of the Seven Mysteries of Honjo.


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