Kakeya Needle
Kakeya may refer to: *Kakeya, Shimane town * S. Kakeya, mathematician *Kakeya set In mathematics, a Kakeya set, or Besicovitch set, is a set of points in Euclidean space which contains a unit line segment in every direction. For instance, a disk of radius 1/2 in the Euclidean plane, or a ball of radius 1/2 in three-dimensional ...

Kakeya, Shimane
was a town located in Iishi District, Shimane Prefecture, Japan. As of 2003, the town had an estimated population of 3,783 and a density of 34.55 per km2. The total area was On November 1, 2004, Kakeya, along with the towns of Daito, Kamo and Kisuki (all from Ōhara District), the town of Mitoya, and the village of Yoshida (all from Iishi District), was merged to create the city of Unnan. Notable residents * Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita was a Japanese politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan from 1987 to 1989 during the bubble economy. Takeshita led the largest faction at the time in the Liberal Democratic Party, which he inherited from Kakuei Tanaka, from the 1980s ... (1924-2000) References Dissolved municipalities of Shimane Prefecture {{Shimane-geo-stub ...
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