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unusual facts about Yakitate!! Japan


The Babystars

Later in 2004, their seventh single, "SUNDAY", became the first ending theme of the anime series Yakitate!! Japan.


1990s in Japan

A NASCAR exhibition race was held in Motegi, Japan during the late 1990s in the hopes of getting people interested in stock car racing.

1997–98 Calgary Flames season

Fleury also represented Canada at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan.

Adrenaline MMA

Although the organization had yet to hold its first card, its first co-promotion effort was Yarennoka! held in Saitama, Japan on New Year's Eve, 2007.

Ansei

July 29, 1959 (Ansei 5): Tairo Ii Naosuke signs Japanese-American Treaty of Amity and Commerce (also known as the "Harris Treaty"), which was a follow-up to the 1854 Treaty of Kanagawa.

Augustus Leopold Kuper

In 1864 Kuper was in command of the International fleet at the Shimonoseki Expedition, Japan, the action fought to reopen the Inland Sea and the Straits of Shimonoseki.

Brain Age Express

Kawamoto flew to Sendai, Japan to ask Dr. Ryuta Kawashima, the inspiration for the Brain Age series, to ask if this would be all right.

Brian Beshara

One of the highest achievements realized by the Lebanese national basketball team was their 74-73 victory over the French national basketball team on August 23, 2006 during the 2006 World Championship in Sendai, Japan.

Daphne Odjig

She has been commissioned to create art by Expo '70 in Osaka, Japan, the Manitoba Museum of Man and Nature, and El Al, the Israeli airline.

Dick Jaspers

--In what way? A "Player of the Year" award or something? Please be more specific.--> He was not able to defend his title the following year, but he won the Silver Medal at the 2001 World Games in Akita, Japan.

FEI Company

The company has research and development centers in Hillsboro, Oregon; Eindhoven, The Netherlands; Shanghai, China PRC;Tokyo, Japan; Brno, Czech Republic; and Brisbane, Australia.

Fraise

Eventually gelded, he was used as a lesson horse at the Olympic Riding Club in Chiba, Japan.

Fusajiro Yamauchi

Yamauchi lived in Kyoto, Japan and had a daughter, Tei Yamauchi (who later married future Nintendo president and Fusajiro Yamauchi's successor, Sekiryo Kaneda).

George Augustus Stallings, Jr.

In the year 2001, Stallings married Sayomi Kamimoto, a native of Okinawa, Japan, in a ceremony presided over by Sun Myung Moon, the founder of the Unification Church.

Harry W. Jenkins

He was then assigned to the 5th Marine Regiment and then the 9th Marine Regiment in Okinawa, Japan.

Hiroko Shimabukuro

Hiroko Shimabukuro (島袋 寛子 Shimabukuro Hiroko, 7 April 1984, Okinawa, Japan), best known mononymously as hiro, is a Japanese singer.

Inside the Robot Kingdom: Japan, Mechatronics, and the Coming Robotopia

This book describes the fascination that Japan has had from the very beginning of acquiring technology, from the first visit by Commodore Matthew C. Perry in 1853 to Tokyo and the integration of technology into Japanese society, which they, according to the book, feel will strengthen and improve their society, economy and life in Japan and the world.

International Society for Micropiles

This first IWM has since led to eight additional workshops which have been held since this initial meeting: Ube, Japan (1999); Turku, Finland (2000); Lille, France (2001); Venice, Italy (2002); Seattle, WA (2003); Tokyo, Japan (2004); Schrobenhausen, Germany (2006); and Toronto, Canada (2007).

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.

John E. Olson

After transport to Japan in November 1942, Olson was imprisoned at the Osaka Seiko Company steel mill in Osaka, Japan where he spent the remainder of the war in forced labor, until being moved to Oeyama Island before the onset of U.S. bombing raids.

Joseph J. Went

In June 1980, he was assigned duty as Commanding General, 3rd Force Service Support Group (Rein), FMF, Pacific, Okinawa, Japan.

Kaoklai Kaennorsing

Kaoklai won the evenly fought battle in the extra round, collected 60 million and advanced to K-1 World GP 2004 Final Elimination, held in Nippon Budokan Arena, Tokyo, Japan .

Karuizawa International Curling Championship

The Karuizawa International Curling Championship is a curling bonspiel held annually since the Olympic Games in Nagano at the SCAP Karuizawa Arena in Kariuzawa, Japan.

Kevin Caron

He was stationed in various ports of call including Diego Garcia, and Misawa, Japan.

Kick the Can Crew

Kick the Can Crew is a mainstream hip hop group from Tokyo, Japan, consisting of members Kreva, MCU, and Little.

Kijirō Nambu

Nambu founded the Nambu Arms Manufacturing Company in Tokyo in 1927, with financial backing from the Okura zaibatsu .

Kohki Abe

As of July, 2008 he is Dean of the law school at Kanagawa University in Yokohama, Japan, where he teaches international law, human rights and refugee law.

Lukas Biewald

From 2005 to 2006, Biewald led the Search Relevance Team for Yahoo! Japan, where he focused on using statistical machine learning approaches to improve the web search ranking function for international markets.

Mac Yasuda

He started off running an English language school in Kobe, Japan, in the 1970s and eventually became one of the largest vintage guitar dealers/collectors in the United States and an executive in the organization of Akira Tsumura, the heir to the Japanese Tsumura Corporation built on their bath salt "basukurin" which is a household name over there and who was disgraced in an abuse of corporate office scandal in 1997.

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.

Masaru Ibuka

Masaru Ibuka (井深 大 Ibuka Masaru, April 11, 1908, Nikkō City, Japan – December 19, 1997, Tokyo) was a Japanese electronics industrialist and co-founder of Sony.

Mats Wallberg

Mats Wallberg (born February 21, 1949 in Gunnarskog) is a former ice speed skater from Sweden, who represented his native country in two consecutive Winter Olympics, starting in 1972 in Sapporo, Japan.

Mobileye

Mobileye N.V. is headquartered in the Netherlands, with a R&D Center in Jerusalem, Israel, and sales and marketing offices in Los Angeles, California; Detroit, Michigan; Nicosia, Cyprus and Tokyo, Japan.

Nancy McCredie

Nancy McCredie (born February 5, 1945 in Belleville, Ontario) is a retired female track and field athlete from Canada, who represented her native country in two events (discus and shot put) at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan.

Neil Tetkowski

The Kanazawa Project, 2002, titled “Generations in Time” was sponsored by the city government of Kanazawa, Japan to mark the 40th anniversary of its sister-city program with Buffalo, New York.

New Zealand Parliament Buildings

It is the second-largest wooden building in the world (after Tōdai-ji in Nara, Japan), and the largest in the Southern Hemisphere.

Old Government Buildings, Wellington

It was completed in 1876, and until 1998 was the second-largest wooden building in the world (after Tōdai-ji in Nara, Japan).

Pathomachia

In the opening scene of Act II, for example, Justice tells Love that Heroical Virtue "is gone to the Antipodes, unto Japonia" that is, Japan and that "I have not heard of him since the time of Judas Maccabeus...." The drama also displays many references to then-recent historical events, including the Gunpowder Plot and François Ravaillac's assassination of Henri IV among others.

Shoji Tabuchi

In the mid-1960s, Shoji was a sophomore in college and had heard that Roy Acuff, of the Grand Ole Opry, was coming to Osaka, Japan.

The Codetalkers

In May 2008, the band played two shows in Tokyo and were invited back for a full-blown tour in early 2009 following the release of their next album.

Tokio, North Dakota

However, some believe it is named after the city of Tokyo in Japan.

Tomoko Sugawara

With Swedish professor Bo Lawergren, whom she met at a kugo museum exhibit in Nara, Japan she engineered a fully working model of a kugo and hired American harp builder Bill Campbell to construct it.

Toyota Hilux Surf

The first run of Hilux Surf models were built at Toyota's plant in Tahara, Japan, but starting with the third generation models, production was split between the Tahara plant and Hino Motors' Hamura, Japan plant.

Vero cell

The lineage was developed on 27 March 1962, by Yasumura and Kawakita at the Chiba University in Chiba, Japan.

Wayne, New York

He later returned as a Baptist missionary and was inspired to invent the rickshaw in order to transport his invalid wife around the streets of Tokyo.

William Hillcourt

In 1971, he and Grace finally completed the world tour he had started in 1926; along the way they attended the 13th World Scout Jamboree in Fujinomiya, Japan.


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