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Miike may refer to: *The Miike coal mine, Japan *Takashi Miike, Japanese filmmaker *Miike Domain *Miike District, Fukuoka *Lake Miike See also *Miike Snow Miike Snow ( ) is a Swedish indie pop band formed in 2007. The band consists of producing team Bloodshy & Avant and American singer Andrew Wyatt. The band is often represented by a silhouette image of a jackalope. In their career, the band has re ..., Swedish electronic band {{Disambiguation, surname Japanese-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miike Coal Mine
, also known as the , was the largest coal mine in Japan,Karan, P.P. & Stapleton, K.E. (1997) ''The Japanese city'p.181University Press of Kentucky Retrieved January 2012. located in the area of the city of Ōmuta, Fukuoka and Arao, Kumamoto, Japan. In 1960, it was the setting for the " Miike Struggle," which was the largest management-labor dispute in Japanese history. In 2015, it was registered as one of the assets of the UNESCO Sites of Japan's Meiji Industrial Revolution: Iron and Steel, Shipbuilding and Coal Mining World Heritage Site. History Prewar history Coal was discovered in this area by a farmer in 1469; however, commercial scale exploitation did not begin until 1721, when the '' karō'' of Miike Domain received permission to open a mine. In pre-industrial Japan, the main market for coal was for use in salt production in the Seto Inland Sea; however, in the Bakumatsu period, the importance of coal as a fuel for steam engines became increasing evident, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Takashi Miike
is a Japanese film director, film producer and screenwriter. He has directed over 100 feature film, video, and television productions since his debut in 1991. His films span a variety of different genres, ranging from violent and surrealism, bizarre to Drama (film and television), dramatic and family-friendly movies. He is a controversial figure in the contemporary Cinema of Japan, Japanese cinema industry, with several of his films being criticised for their extreme graphic violence. Some of his best-known films are Audition (1999 film), ''Audition'', Ichi the Killer (film), ''Ichi the Killer'', ''Visitor Q'', ''Dead or Alive (1999 film), Dead or Alive'', ''One Missed Call (2003 film), One Missed Call'', and various remakes: 13 Assassins (2010 film), ''13 Assassins'', ''Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai, Hara-kiri'', and Graveyard of Honor (2002 film), ''Graveyard of Honor''. He has also acted in more than 20 films. Early life Miike was born in Yao, Osaka, Yao, Osaka Prefecture. D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miike Domain
270px, Tachibana Taneyuki, final ''daimyō'' of Miike Domain was a Japanese domain of the Edo period. It was centered around Miike ''Jin'ya'' in what is now the city of Ōmuta, Fukuoka and was ruled by the ''tozama daimyō'' Tachibana clan for much of its history. History Takahashi Naotsugu, the younger brother of Tachibana Muneshige, was awarded a 5,000 ''koku'' fief in Tsukuba District, Hitachi Province in 1614 and became a ''hatamoto''. His eldest son, Tachibana Tanetsugu, recovered 5,000 ''koku'' of the clan's former territory in Miike District, Chikugo Province, which put him over the threshold to become a ''daimyō'' in 1621. This marked the start of Miike Domain. Coal mining began in 1738, during the era of the 4th ''daimyō'', Tachibana Yasunaga. This industry evolved into the Mitsu-Miike Coal Mine, which remained in operation until 1997. The 6th ''daimyō'', Tachibana Tanechika, served in various positions in the administration of the Tokugawa shogunate, in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miike District, Fukuoka
was a district located in Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan. As of 2003, the district had an estimated population of 14,525 and a density Density (volumetric mass density or specific mass) is the ratio of a substance's mass to its volume. The symbol most often used for density is ''ρ'' (the lower case Greek letter rho), although the Latin letter ''D'' (or ''d'') can also be u ... of 354.18 persons per km2. The total area was 41.01 km2. Former towns and villages * Takata Merger * On January 29, 2007 - the town of Takata, along with the towns of Setaka and Yamakawa (both from Yamato District), was merged to create the city of Miyama. References Former districts of Fukuoka Prefecture Ōmuta, Fukuoka {{Fukuoka-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lake Miike
is a lake in Miyakonojō and Takaharu in Miyazaki Prefecture, Japan Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asia, Asian mainland, it is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan and extends from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea .... Geography and geology The height above sea level is 305 m, the depth 93.5 meters, the deepest in Japan as the crater lake. There is no outflow of water from the lake. The lake is encircled by forests, and there is a park called ''Miike Yacho(Birds) no Mori'' and a camp site. Waterfowls such as mandarin ducks, teals, spectakled teals are seen. The lake was created by a crater resulting from a magma vapor eruption about 4200 years ago. Flatstones are seen in the layers of ground near by, called Miike floatstones or Miike bora.Miyazakiken Sogo Hakubutsukan '' Report on Mt. Kirishima'' 2004 History Along the border of the lake, there was mythologically 7 ports, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miike Snow
Miike Snow ( ) is a Swedish indie pop band formed in 2007. The band consists of producing team Bloodshy & Avant and American singer Andrew Wyatt. The band is often represented by a silhouette image of a jackalope. In their career, the band has released three studio albums: ''Miike Snow (album), Miike Snow'' (2009), ''Happy to You'' (2012), and ''iii (Miike Snow album), iii'' (2016). History Early years Miike Snow was formed in 2007 in Stockholm, Sweden. Band members Christian Karlsson (DJ), Christian Karlsson and Pontus Winnberg were childhood friends who spent time playing in bands and working on various projects in studios throughout the city of Gothenburg. Karlsson was a former member of the Swedish hip-hop band Goldmine, who toured with The Fugees. After separate moves to Stockholm, they reunited in 2000. Karlsson and Winnberg collaborated under the moniker Bloodshy & Avant and enjoyed a significant amount of success as producers and songwriters. They have worked with artist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
