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unusual facts about Tsukuba, Ibaraki



Akira Hosomi

He was adjunct professor of the University of Tsukuba during 2005-2006, and also visiting professor of Gakushuin University during 2006-2009 and Kyoto Pharmaceutical University during 2006-2010.

Celes Kobayashi

Celes Kobayashi (セレス小林, born Shoji Kobayashi on February 27, 1973) is a former professional boxer from Ibaraki, Japan.

CONQUEST

CONQUEST is jointly developed at the Department of Physics and Astronomy and London Centre for Nanotechnology, University College London in the UK and at the Computational Materials Science Centre, National Institute for Materials Science, Tsukuba, Japan.

Ibaraki Airport

At the time of opening, Ibaraki offered two flights, an Asiana service to Seoul, South Korea, and to Kobe in western Japan, by Skymark Airlines.

Ibaraki-dōji

A young beautiful girl was on the road, worried, so Watanabe no Tsuna made her ride on a horse, but the girl suddenly transformed into an oni, and grasped Tsuna’s hair, flew in the air, and took him to Mount Atago.

Concerning Shuten-doji, there are stories that he was born at the base of Mount Ibuki among other famous stories, but concerning Ibaraki-doji, there are stories that he was born in Amagasaki, Hyogo, and Ibaraki, Osaka among other places, and documented from various sources like the Settsu Meisho Zue (摂津名所図会), Settsuyou Kendan (摂陽研説), and Setuyou Gundan (摂陽群談).

Imperial Open

It was played at the Seve Ballesteros Golf Club in Chiba from 1990 to 1992 and at the Caledonian Golf Club in Ibaraki in 1993.

Iwama

Iwama, Ibaraki, former town in Nishiibaraki District, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan

Iwama Station, train station in Kasama, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan

Japan Collection of Microorganisms

It is a semi-governmental collection maintained by RIKEN BioResource Center and it is located in Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture.

Kanto Tsukuba Bank

While the bank has a majority of its branches in Ibaraki Prefecture, it operates several branches outside the prefecture, notable in Tokyo, Chiba, Tochigi, and Saitama Prefectures.

Mikawashima Station

The crash occurred about 350 meters east of Mikawashima Station when an Ueno-bound passenger train (train number 2000H) crashed into the wreckage of a crash between a Toride-bound passenger train (2117H) and a Mito-bound freight train (number 287) as well as a crowd of evacuating passengers from 2117H.

Muon spin spectroscopy

This is presently achieved at few large scale facilities in the world: the CMMS continuous source at TRIUMF in Vancouver, Canada; the SµS continuous source at the Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI) in Villigen, Switzerland; the ISIS and RIKEN-RAL pulsed sources at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Chilton, United Kingdom; and the J-PARC facility in Tokai, Japan, where a new pulsed source is being built to replace that at KEK in Tsukuba, Japan.

Nicollet Island

The south end of the island is home to the Nicollet Island Pavilion event center and the Bell of Two Friends, a gift from the city of Ibaraki, Osaka, Japan.

Romidepsin

Romidepsin was first reported in the scientific literature in 1994, by a team of researchers from Fujisawa Pharmaceutical Company (now Astellas Pharma) in Tsukuba, Japan, who isolated it in a culture of Chromobacterium violaceum from a soil sample obtained in Yamagata Prefecture.

Sanuki

Sanuki Station, a train station located in Ryūgasaki, Ibaraki, Japan

Tokyo Metropolitan Ordinance Regarding the Healthy Development of Youths

According to Anime News Network (ANN), at the New Manga Creators Awards ceremony Kazuhiko Torishima, senior managing director and editor, said he wanted "new manga authors to produce manga that would blow away Tokyo Governor Shintaro Ishihara" and Masahiko Ibaraki, editor-in-chief of its third editorial department, added that he did not want the increased regulations to have a chilling effect on their content and they would still feature anything that was exciting.

Tsukuba Express

To prevent interference with the geomagnetic measurements of the Japan Meteorological Agency at its laboratory in Yasato, Niihari District, Ibaraki, the portion of the line from Moriya to Tsukuba operates on alternating current.

Tsukuba International School

The school is located in the Kamigo region of Tsukuba Science City and the closest stations are Banpaku Kinen Koen on the Tsukuba Express Line and Mitsuma on the Joso Line.

Tsukuba, Ibaraki

The city was closely modeled on other planned cities and science developments, including Brasilia, Novosibirsk's Akademgorodok, Bethesda, and Palo Alto.

US Orbital Segment

The segment is monitored and controlled from various mission control centers around the world including Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, Columbus Control Center in Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany, Tsukuba Space Center in Tsukuba, Japan, and Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.

Yuma Yahagi

He currently races in the Tsukuba Road Race Honda CBR 250 Championship aboard a Honda CBR250R.


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