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3 unusual facts about Tsurumi-ku, Yokohama


Keizan

Keizan founded several temples throughout his lifetime, most notably Yōkō-ji and Daihonzan Sōji-ji (originally founded on the Noto Peninsula, and moved to Tsurumi in Yokohama in 1911).

Nissan Laurel

This car was developed by the Nissan Tsurumi vehicle development team, but the C30 Laurel was fitted with the Prince four-cylinder SOHC engine, the G18.

Takijirō Ōnishi

Ōnishi′s ashes were divided between two graves – one at the Zen temple of Sōji-ji in Tsurumi, Yokohama, and the other at the public cemetery in former Ashida village in Hyōgo prefecture.


1986 James Hardie 1000

He had also set his qualifying time running on Dunlop Tyres and not the Yokohama's he was required by contract to run when the television cameras were running in the runoff.

1998 Japan Series

Pitching-wise, Yokohama was led by Takashi Saito and Daisuke Miura for starters, and Kazuhiro Sasaki was practically automatic at closer, recording 45 saves and posting a microscopic 0.64 ERA.

A-Train

Map construction adds the ability to build custom maps and terrains, and included pre-built cities Tokyo, Yokohama, Nagoya, Kyoto, Osaka, Kobe.

Akiko Yuge

She also taught Development Studies as a Professor at Ferris University in Yokohama in the meantime.

Atago Maru

The Atago Maru was built as a general cargo freighter for the Japanese, and operated between Kobe / Yokohama and the west coast of the USA and Canada.

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.

Charley Barrett

In 1918, he was injured in an explosion on the armored cruiser USS Brooklyn in Yokohama harbor and never fully recovered from the injuries.

Clarence Ridgeby Greathouse

There he also became active in local Democratic politics and in 1883 was named general manager of the Democratic daily the San Francisco Examiner, a position he held until 1886 when he was appointed United States consul-general at Yokohama, Japan.

Clelia Giacobini

She chaired the International Conferences on biological deterioration of Cultural Heritage, held in Lucknow (1989) and Yokohama (1992).

CZW World Junior Heavyweight Championship

Jun Kasai won the title in Sapporo, while Acid reclaimed the title in Yokohama.

Dear Angel

The music video was shot on September 8, 1999 aboard the Hikawa Maru cruise liner in Yamashita Park, Yokohama.

Dōshi, Yamanashi

From 1897, the Dōshigawa River, which runs through the village, was designated as a primary source of water for the growing city of Yokohama, and from 1916 a large portion of the village land area was designated as a protected watershed.

Eddie Macon

He was a track star at Edison High School, and was drafted into the United States Army during World War II in 1945, and was stationed for seven months at Yokohama, Japan after the war's conclusion.

Edward St. John Neale

Background (from left to right): Three Japanese governors of Yokohama, Duchesne de Bellecourt, Daimyo Sakai-Hida-no-Kami, Colonel Neale (British representative in Japan), Admiral Jaurès, Admiral Kuper.

Fusakichi Omori

In fall 1923 Omori attended the Second Pan-Pacific Science Congress in Australia, where he and Edward Pigot, the director of the observatory at Riverview College in Sydney, Australia observed a seismograph recording the major great Kantō earthquake which destroyed Yokohama and Tokyo on 1 September 1923, killing about 140,000 and leaving 1.9 million people homeless.

Hara Model Railway Museum

The museum is located on the second floor of the Yokohama Mitsui Building in Nishi-ku, Yokohama, and is a two-minute walk from Shin-Takashima Station on the Minatomirai Line, and a five-minute walk from Yokohama Station.

Haudaudine

She had arrived earlier from Yokohama, Japan, in ballast and was loaded for her homeward voyage with 3,042 tons of nickel ore from the Katavite mines bound for Rotterdam, Germany.

Japan national cricket team

Cricket was first played in Japan in 1868 when a group of English merchants living in Yokohama founded the Yokohama Cricket Club, playing their matches on what eventually became the Yokohama Stadium.

JB Catalogue

The twentieth edition (2010) was awarded the Silver-Bronze Medal in Phila Nippon '11 Japan World Stamp Exhibition, which held in Yokohama between 28 July and 2 August 2011, and the twenty first edition (2012) was awarded the Silver Medal in the Australia 2013 FIP World Stamp Exhibition, which was held at the Royal Exhibition Building in Melbourne between 10 and 15 May 2013.

Joe Cipriano

From 1987 to 1992, Cipriano produced and hosted two shows that aired in Tokyo, Yokohama, Osaka and Kobe, Japan: the L.A. Express and Toyota California Classics.

Joseph Heco

In Yokohama he met Wilhelm Heine, Francis Hall and Mikhail Bakunin and traveled back to San Francisco with Bakunin in September.

Junichi Tazawa

After he finished his high school career in Yokohama, Tazawa was not drafted by any of Nippon Professional Baseball's 12 teams, and joined the company team of Nippon Oil in the corporate league, unaffiliated with the NPB.

Michel Nykjær

He finished the season second in the Yokohama Drivers' Trophy, two points behind Kristian Poulsen.

Misia

In May 2008, Misia joined Sadao Watanabe, Juanes, Youssou N'Dour, and Bono for the 'One For All' event on May 29, 2008 for 1,500 in Yokohama, Japan.

Rickshaw

Jonathan Scobie (or Jonathan Goble), an American missionary to Japan, is also said to have invented the rickshaw around 1869 to transport his invalid wife through the streets of Yokohama.

Robert Samuel Maclay

He became an integral part of the Wesleyan mission in Japan, helping to found and serve as first president of the Anglo-Japanese College (now the Aoyama Gakuin) in Yokohama.

Romain Descharmes

Romain Descharmes was awarded First Prize in the Dublin International Piano Competition in 2006, leading him to perform recitals on such prestigious stages as Carnegie Hall in New-York, Wigmore Hall in London, National Concert Hall in Dublin, Minato Hall in Yokohama, Tsuda Hall and Hakuju Hall in Tokyo, Salle Cortot and Salle Pleyel in Paris.

Samuel Samuel

Samuel founded Samuel Samuel & Co in Yokohama, Japan, in partnership with his elder brother Marcus Samuel, creator of the Shell Transport and Trading company.

Shibuya, Tokyo

The Tokyu Toyoko Line opened in 1932, making Shibuya a key terminal between Tokyo and Yokohama, and was joined by the forerunner of the Keio Inokashira Line in 1933 and the forerunner of the Tokyo Metro Ginza Line in 1938.

The Tour of Misia 2007 Ascension

On April 6, 2007, WOWOW aired a special titled The Tour of Misia 2007 in Yokohama Arena, which showed a TV edit of the tour's finale show.

Tiger Onitsuka

Followed by a concert at a national treasure and a World Heritage Site Kamigamo Shrine in Kyoto, on 7 October 2007, Onitsuka performed at the Yokohama Jazz Promenade.

Tomioka silk mill

In 1870, Paul Brunat, who worked in a French trading company in Yokohama, researched suitable locations for a silk mill in the Kanto region and selected the site in Tomioka City from among the candidates.

Tsurumi Line

A shuttle bus for Toshiba employees at runs in a loop between Asano, Shin-Shibaura, and Umi-Shibaura stations on a schedule alternating with Tsurumi Line trains.

Wakamiya Ōji

British cartoonist Charles Wirgman and photographer Felice Beato were in Enoshima near Fujisawa, where they met Major Baldwin and Lieutenant Bird of the British garrison in Yokohama.

Yamanote Line

As part of this change, JNR decided to adopt the Yamanote pronunciation, one reason being that there is a Yamate Station on the Negishi Line in nearby Yokohama.

Yokohama Air Group

The Yokohama Air Group was formed in Yokohama, Japan on October 1, 1936 as a patrol unit equipped with six Navy Type 91 Hiro H4H flying boats.

Yokohama Archives of History

The Archives include a museum which tells the story of Japan and Yokohama's opening to the West from the arrival of Commodore Perry and his black ships.

Yokohama Arena

1–4 April 1989: The first events on Yokohama Arena "Delight Slight Light KISS Yokohama Arena opening celebration concert" by Yumi Matsutoya as additional dates of her concert tour "Delight Slight Light KISS Tour".

Yokohama Chinatown

Yokohama Chinatown (Japanese: 横浜中華街, yokohama chūkagai; Simplified Chinese: 横滨中华街; Traditional Chinese: 横濱中華街; Pinyin: Hèngbīn Zhōnghuá Jiē; Cantonese Jyutping: Waang4 ban1 zung1 waa4 gaai1) is located in Yokohama, Japan, which is located just south of Tokyo.

There are 6 bus routes from Yokohama Station East bus depot and from Sakuragichō Bus Depot, 16 bus routes that go to Yokohama Chinatown.

Yokohama FC Hong Kong

In the 2013-14 season Yokohama FC Hong Kong moved its home ground from Siu Sai Wan Sports Ground to Tseung Kwan O Sports Ground.

Yokohama War Crimes Trials

The Yokohama War Crimes Trials was a series of trials of Japanese war criminals, held before the military commission of the US 8th Army at Yokohama immediately after the Second World War.

Yokoyama Matsusaburō

Bennett notes that, according to historians Torin Boyd, Naomi Izakura, and Anne Wilkes Tucker, Yokoyama opened his first studio in Tokyo, not Yokohama.

Yoshihiro Tsurumi

Tsurumi has taught at Keio University, Queen's University in Canada, the Harvard Graduate School of Business, the UCLA Graduate School of Management, and the Columbia Graduate School of Business, and continue to give special lectures and faculty seminars at universities in the United States, Canada, Europe and Asia.

Shortly before the 2004 U.S. presidential election, Tsurumi appeared on various media outlets (such as CNN and Air America) and reported remembering Bush telling him that family friends had helped get him into the Texas Air National Guard.


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