Tabuse
is a town located in Kumage District, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan. In 2016, the town had an estimated population of 15,200 and a density of 300 persons per km². The total area is 50.35 km². In 2018, a civil servant reported property tax misconduct by the mayor of Tabuse and the head of the tax collection management agency. Geography Neighbouring municipalities * Hikari * Iwakuni * Yanai * Hirao Transportation Railway * JR West ** San'yō Main Line: Tabuse Station Highway * Japan National Route 188 Notable residents * Nobusuke Kishi, Prime Minister of Japan from 1957 to 1960 * Kitamura Sayo, founder of Tenshō Kōtai Jingūkyō * Eisaku Satō was a Japanese politician who served as Prime Minister from 1964 to 1972. He is the third-longest serving Prime Minister, and ranks second in longest uninterrupted service as Prime Minister. Satō entered the National Diet in 1949 as a membe ..., Prime Minister of Japan from 1964 to 1972 and younger ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Tabuse Station
is a railway station operated by JR West on the Sanyō Main Line in Tabuse, Kumage District, Yamaguchi, Japan. Platforms History *September 25, 1897: Station opens as part of the newly built Hiroshima-Tokuyama segment of the Sanyō Railway *December 1, 1906: Station is transferred to Japanese Government Railways as a part of railway nationalization *April 1, 1987: Station operation is taken over by JR West after privatization of Japanese National Railways See also * List of railway stations in Japan The links below contain all of the 8579 railway stations in Japan. External links {{Portal bar, Japan, Trains * Railway stations Japan ... External links * Railway stations in Japan opened in 1897 Sanyō Main Line Hiroshima City Network Railway stations in Yamaguchi Prefecture Tabuse, Yamaguchi {{Yamaguchi-railstation-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Eisaku Satō
was a Japanese politician who served as Prime Minister from 1964 to 1972. He is the third-longest serving Prime Minister, and ranks second in longest uninterrupted service as Prime Minister. Satō entered the National Diet in 1949 as a member of the Liberal Party. Gradually rising through the ranks of Japanese politics, he held a series of cabinet positions. In 1964 he succeeded Hayato Ikeda as Prime Minister, becoming the first Prime Minister to have been born in the 20th century. As Prime Minister, Satō presided over a period of rapid economic growth. He arranged for the formal return of Okinawa (Ryukyu Islands; occupied by the United States since the end of the Second World War) to Japanese control. Satō brought Japan into the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, for which he received the Nobel Peace Prize as a co-recipient in 1974. Early life Satō was born on 27 March 1901, in Tabuse, Yamaguchi Prefecture, the third son of businessman Hidesuke Satō and his wife Moyo. H ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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San'yō Main Line
The is a major railway line owned by JR Group companies in western Japan, connecting Kōbe Station and Moji Station, largely paralleling the coast of the Inland Sea, in other words, the southern coast of western Honshu. The San'yō Shinkansen line largely parallels its route. The name Sanyō derived from the ancient region and highway San'yōdō, the road on the sunny (south) side of the mountains. The Sanyō Main Line is operated by two JR companies: * West Japan Railway Company (JR West) JR Kobe Line, San'yō Line * Kyushu Railway Company (JR Kyushu) San'yō Line The Wadamisaki Line, a short section of line in the length of between Hyōgo and Wadamisaki stations in Kobe is a branch of the Sanyō Main Line. A short section connecting Kitakyushu Freight Terminal also forms part of the Sanyō Main Line. Basic data *Operators, distances: . **West Japan Railway Company ( Category-1, Services and tracks) ***From Kobe to Shimonoseki: . ***From Hyōgo to Wadamisaki: . **Kyush ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Nobusuke Kishi
was a Japanese bureaucrat and politician who was Prime Minister of Japan from 1957 to 1960. Known for his exploitative rule of the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo in Northeast China in the 1930s, Kishi was nicknamed the "Monster of the Shōwa era" (昭和の妖怪; ''Shōwa no yōkai''). Kishi later served in the wartime cabinet of Prime Minister Hideki Tōjō as Minister of Commerce and Vice Minister of Munitions, and co-signed the declaration of war against the United States on December 7, 1941. After World War II, Kishi was imprisoned for three years as a suspected Class A war criminal. However, the U.S. government did not charge, try, or convict him, and eventually released him as they considered Kishi to be the best man to lead a post-war Japan in a pro-American direction. With U.S. support, he went on to consolidate the Japanese conservative camp against perceived threats from the Japan Socialist Party in the 1950s. Kishi was instrumental in the formation of the pow ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Tenshō Kōtai Jingūkyō
Tenshō Kōtai Jingūkyō (Japanese ) is a Japanese new religious movement which emerged from Shinto. It was established by Sayo Kitamura () (1900–1967), with activities beginning in 1945. The movement includes 450,000 members. Kitamura claimed possession by Amaterasu under the title Tenshō-Kōtaijin. Its headquarters are in Tabuse is a town located in Kumage District, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan. In 2016, the town had an estimated population of 15,200 and a density of 300 persons per km². The total area is 50.35 km². In 2018, a civil servant reported property t ... (, ''Tabuse-chō''), a town in the district of Kumage District, Yamaguchi, Japan. Followers practice a dance called ''muga no mai'' (, "Dance of the non-self" or "Dance of the non-ego"), which is why the religion is called the "dancing religion" (, ''Odoru shūkyō''). See also * Anatta / Anātman (jap. ''muga'') References Further reading * Tina Hamrin: ''Dansreligionen i japansk imm ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Kitamura Sayo
was the founder of the "dancing religion", Tensho Kotai Jingukyo. Early life Kitamura was born on January 1, 1900, in what is now Yanai city, Yamaguchi prefecture, Japan. She was the fourth daughter in a farming family of Jodo Shinshu Buddhists. She got married in November 1920, and moved to Tabuse, Yamaguchi to be with her husband. Career In July 1942, a barn on the Kitamura property burned down. Blaming herself for the incident, Kitamura began visiting a shaman. On May 4, 1944, Kitamura was possessed by a spirit, which was later said to be Tensho Kotaijin. She had her first sermon on July 22, 1945, during which she preached she had been sent to save the world, because it was about to end. She said that people should become "true human beings" in order to create a peaceful "land of god", and that Japan's defeat in World War II was just the prelude to a battle between good and evil. Her sermons included singing and dances of "non-ego", which earned the group the nicknam ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Yamaguchi Prefecture
is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūgoku region of Honshu. Yamaguchi Prefecture has a population of 1,377,631 (1 February 2018) and has a geographic area of 6,112 km2 (2,359 sq mi). Yamaguchi Prefecture borders Shimane Prefecture to the north and Hiroshima Prefecture to the northeast. Yamaguchi is the capital and Shimonoseki is the largest city of Yamaguchi Prefecture, with other major cities including Ube, Shūnan, and Iwakuni. Yamaguchi Prefecture is located at the western tip of Honshu with coastlines on the Sea of Japan and Seto Inland Sea, and separated from the island of Kyushu by the Kanmon Straits. History Yamaguchi Prefecture was created by the merger of the provinces of Suō and Nagato. During the rise of the samurai class during the Heian and Kamakura Periods (794–1333), the Ouchi family of Suō Province and the Koto family of Nagato Province gained influence as powerful warrior clans. In the Muromachi period (1336—1573), Ouchi Hiroyo, ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Hikari, Yamaguchi
is a city located in Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan. The city was founded on April 1, 1943. It was reorganised with different borders on July 1, 1955, and October 4, 2004. As of October 1, 2016, the city has an estimated population of 51,040, and a population density of 560 persons per square kilometer (1,450.4 persons per square mile). The total area is . The name Hikari itself means "brilliance" or "light" in Japanese. It is connected by railroad with a train station and route 188. Hikari is bounded with Yanai, Kudamatsu, Shunan, Iwakuni and Tabuse in the Kumage District. On October 4, 2004, the town of Yamato (from Kumage District) was merged into Hikari. History Municipal timeline *October 1, 1940: The town of Shunan was renamed Hikari. *April 1, 1943: The town merged with the town of Murozumi to form the city of Hikari (1st generation). *July 1, 1955: The city (1st generation) merged with the village of Suō to form the new city of Hikari (2nd generation). *April 10 ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Kumage District, Yamaguchi
is a district located in Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan. As of 2003, the district has an estimated population of 42,778 and a density of 282.12 persons per km2. The total area is 151.63 km2. Towns and villages *Hirao *Kaminoseki * Tabuse Mergers *On April 21, 2003, the town of Kumage merged with the town of Kano, from Tsuno District, and the cities of Tokuyama and Shinnan'yō, to form the city of Shūnan is a city located in east central Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan. As of October 1, 2016, the city has an estimated population of 143,959 and a population density of 220 persons per km2. The total area is 656.13 km2. The modern city of Shūna .... *On October 4, 2004, the town of Yamato was merged into the city of Hikari. Districts in Yamaguchi Prefecture Hikari, Yamaguchi {{Yamaguchi-geo-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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List Of Towns In Japan
A town (町; ''chō'' or ''machi'') is a local administrative unit in Japan. It is a local public body along with prefecture (''ken'' or other equivalents), city (''shi''), and village (''mura''). Geographically, a town is contained within a district. Note that the same word (町; ''machi'' or ''chō'') is also used in names of smaller regions, usually a part of a ward in a city. This is a legacy of when smaller towns were formed on the outskirts of a city, only to eventually merge into it. Towns See also * Municipalities of Japan * Japanese addressing system The Japanese addressing system is used to identify a specific location in Japan. When written in Japanese characters, addresses start with the largest geographical entity and proceed to the most specific one. When written in Latin alphabet, Lati ... References {{reflist External links DF 7 of 40">"Large City System of Japan"; graphic shows towns compared with other Japanese city types at p. 1 [PDF 7 of 40/now ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Hirao
is a town A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than city, cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world. Origin and use The word "town" shares ... located in Kumage District, Yamaguchi, Kumage District, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan. As of 2016, the town has an estimated population of 12,643 and a population density, density of . The total area is . Geography Neighbouring municipalities * Yanai, Yamaguchi, Yanai * Kaminoseki * Tabuse Transportation Hirao did not have any train stations, with the Yanai Station, Yanai station being the closest from the town and takes about a ten-minute travel from the town. Japan National Route 188 passes through Hirao. References External links *Hirao official website Towns in Yamaguchi Prefecture {{Yamaguchi-geo-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Ilex Rotunda
''Ilex rotunda'', commonly called the Kurogane holly, is an Evergreen, evergreen tree in the holly family (Aquifoliaceae). It is native to east Asia, where it is found in China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and Vietnam.''Ilex rotunda'' (in Japanese), Flora of Mikawa Its natural habitat is in evergreen broadleaf forests, often in sunny areas such forest edges or on mountain slopes. It has spineless leathery leaves and clusters of bright-red berries. It reaches 18 m at maturity (although 20 m is also reported). The tree blooms from May to June, and the seeds become ripe from October to December. The plants are dioecious. The fruits contain flavonols. Kurogane holly was first described in 1784 by Carl Peter Thunberg, from species growing in Japan. In Jap ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |