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11 unusual facts about Yamaguchi


Fast Retailing

In 1984, the company, which ran a menswear store in Ube, Yamaguchi, opened a new casual-wear store named Unique Clothing Warehouse in Hiroshima City; this was the forebear of Uniqlo.

Huisheng

Huisheng was first buried in Nisonin, the Saga family plot, and later moved to an Aisin-Gioro family plot in Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi.

Japanese battleship Kawachi

Kawachi rejoined the First Squadron after her refit and entered Tokuyama Bay on the evening of 11 July 1918.

Justin Seaverns

Justin William Seaverns (born July 2, 1980 in Iwakuni, Yamaguchi, Japan) is a former American football linebacker of the National Football League.

Kentaro Nakamoto

Born in Kikugawa in Japan's Yamaguchi Prefecture (now part of Shimonoseki), he attended Yamaguchi Prefectural City West High School.

Mine Circuit

Mine Circuit (みねサーキット) was a 3.331 km motor racing circuit in Nagao, Nishiatsu-cho, Mine, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan.

Misuzu Kaneko

Born Kaneko Teru in Senzaki-mura, now part of Nagato, Yamaguchi prefecture, Senzaki was a fishing village, relying particularly on catches of Japanese sardine.

The Palmetum, Townsville

Townsville’s Japanese sister city Tokuyama funded the initial development of the Licuala Walk and Tokuyama Garden, which was completed in 1996.

Tokutaro Sakurai

In June 1966, Sakurai took the tonsure, becoming a Buddhist priest, and lived at the temple of Ruriko-ji in Yamaguchi until his death in 1980.

Tsuruhime

At that time the island was under threat from the growing power of Ōuchi Yoshitaka from Yamaguchi on the mainland of Honshu, and fighting took place between the Ōuchi and the Kōnō on Shikoku, under whose jurisdiction the shrine fell.

Yamaguchi arson and murders

The Yamaguchi arson and murders took place between July 21, and July 22, 2013 in the hamlet of Mitake, in Shūnan, in Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan, and resulted in the deaths of five people.


Alchemy: An Index of Possibilities

The opening suite "Words with the Shaman" was simultaneously issued as a 12" single, while "Steel Cathedrals" was used in a short film by Sylvian and Yasayuki Yamaguchi, shot in Tokyo, Japan, and released on VHS.

Gania Nishimura

He studied Haiku under Seison Yamaguchi, engaged as a chief editor of Haiku Group called "Genseirin" and a leader of Haiku Group called Hototogisu in the University of Tokyo.

Gōgen Yamaguchi

In Australia, Paul Starling (the most senior Caucasian pupil graded by Gōgen Yamaguchi in his lifetime) had been training for four years with Gōgen's first Australian student Mervyn Oakley.

The Kokusai Budō Renmei - (The International Martial Arts Federation) in Japan, whose chairman was Prince Higashikuni of the Japanese Imperial Family appointed Master Yamaguchi as a Shihan - Master of that organisation's karate-dō division.

Hotaru Yamaguchi

In July 2013, Yamaguchi received his first callup to the senior Japan side by Alberto Zaccheroni for the 2013 EAFF East Asian Cup, where he played in all three matches and was named tournament MVP.

Japanese seaplane tender Kiyokawa Maru

Hit by bombs and heavily damaged she was beached off Shida beach north of Kaminoseki, Yamaguchi to avoid sinking.

Koichi Yamaguchi

Koichi Yamaguchi (山口弘一) is a noted Japanese bicycle frame builder, based in the United States.

Kojiro

Kōjiro Station, a train station in Iwakuni, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan

Kosan

Ube Kosan Open, golf tournament played at the Ube 72 Country Club, Yamaguchi, Japan

Miyanomori Art Museum

The museum collection also includes about 3000 photographs from the artist Daidō Moriyama, which were taken since the 1950s, as well as works by such artists as Lucio Fontana, Frank Stella, Jasper Johns, Yoshishige Saito, Lee Ufan, Guillaume Bottazzi, Sadamasa Motonaga, Takeo Yamaguchi, and Kumi Sugai.

Randy Caparoso

In 1988 Caparoso met Chef Roy Yamaguchi, who had previously forged a high profile career in Los Angeles, fusing Asian ingredients and seasonings of his childhood up with the classical, sauce oriented, French cuisine with which he was trained (at that time Yamaguchi described this approach to cooking as Euro-Asian, which he later changed to Hawaiian Fusion).

Yamaguchi, Caparoso and other partners went on to open more than thirty other Roy's restaurants from Tokyo to New York, garnering such distinctions as a James Beard Foundation Award, a Gault Millau "Top 50 In the U.S." ranking, and enshrinement in Nation's Restaurant News "Fine Dining Hall of Fame."

Roy Yamaguchi

After opening three other Roy's locations throughout the Hawaiian Islands, Yamaguchi branched out to the continental U.S. and eventually partnered with Outback Steakhouse, allowing greater expansion to areas including Pebble Beach, California; Scottsdale, Arizona; Chicago; New York City; and more recently, Plano, Texas; Jacksonville Beach, Florida; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Atlanta, Georgia; Tampa, Florida; Las Vegas, Nevada; and Maryland.

Shian-Li Tsang

She participated in an storyline which involved a feud between the Japanese stable Kaientai (Taka Michinoku, Funaki, Dick Togo, Men's Teioh, and their manager Yamaguchi-San) and Val Venis.

Sweden v. Yamaguchi

Sweden v. Yamaguchi, otherwise known as in the matter of Marianne Wilson, or in the matter of Mary Ann Vaughn, is a highly complex decision in international family law which touches on questions in law still unresolved over fifty years later.

Tamon Yamaguchi

In the 1960 film Hawaii Midway Ocean Combat; The Storm in The Pacific (ハワイ・ミッドウェイ大海空戦 太平洋の嵐), Yamaguchi was portrayed by Toshiro Mifune.

Tsutomu Yamaguchi

On December 22, 2009, Canadian movie director James Cameron and author Charles Pellegrino met Yamaguchi while he was in a hospital in Nagasaki, and discussed the idea of making a film about nuclear weapons.

William Kwai Sun Chow

His many students included Edmund Parker, Joseph D. and Adriano D. Emperado, Ron Alo, Paul Yamaguchi,Abe KAMAHOAHOA, Bobby Lowe, Ralph Castro, Sam Kuoha, Bill Chun Sr., John Leone, William G. (Billy) Marciarelli (Kachi/Kenpo), and Paul Pung.

Yamaguchi Bicycles

Yamaguchi Bicycles was founded in 1987 by Koichi Yamaguchi (a framebuilder who went on to work as the National Team Mechanic for the US Cycling Federation in 1988 and the official framebuilder for the United States Olympic Cycling Team in 1989).

Yasunori

Yasunori Mitsuda, composer from Yamaguchi Prefecture known for his video game music