It is named after Keikai, a hill north of the city of Nan'yō, Yamagata Prefecture, Japan.
It was discovered by Tomimaru Okuni at the Nanyo Observatory in Nan'yō, Yamagata Prefecture, Japan, on October 29, 1997.
It was discovered by Tomimaru Okuni at the Nanyo Observatory in Nan'yō, Yamagata Prefecture, Japan, on October 5, 1997.
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.
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It is named after Koichi Sato, a government official and amateur astronomer in Nan'yō, Yamagata Prefecture, Japan.
Mount Haguro (Haguro-san), Yamagata Prefecture, Japan, one of the sacred Three Mountains of Dewa