Bukeyashiki aka âSamurai District'', the Bukeyashiki is an area in Kanazawa with old samurai houses from the Tokugawa Period.
Fukuoka Prefecture Area: 4,968 km2 (1995) Capital: Fukuoka Population: 4,900,000 (1996) Fukushima City The capital of Fukushima Prefecture (pg XXX).
X), Himiko aka Pimiko In ancient Chinese texts, Himiko is mentioned as the queen of Japan, but just who she was and where she ruled is still a bit of a mystery.
Armbar Used by : aka : Description : The attacker wraps their arms around one of the victim's arms in such a way that the victim's elbow is locked straight out and the attacker applies pressure to the victim's arm.
Kneebar, Reverse Crucifix Used by : Konnan aka : Description : The victim is on their stomach, the attacker grabs one of the victim's legs and applies a scissor lock around the victim's leg and falls to the mat, trapping the victim's heel in their armpit.
Toe Hold, Step-over Used by : aka : Descrition : The victim is on their back, the attacker holds on of the victim's legs and steps between the victim's legs and puts their foot to one side of the victim's hip and bend the victim's leg so their shin lies across the attacker's thigh.
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Description : The victim is on their back, the attacker applies a scissor lock on the arm with their legs and falls backwards while holding the victim's arm.
Description : The victim is laying on the mat face first, the attacker is to one side of the victim with their back to their body.
Their teams hold tournaments twice a year, often on a nationwide scale, and attract huge crowds of spectators.
Played in August at Hanshin Koshien Baseball Stadium near Osaka, it draws almost one million spectators to a tournament of the 49 regional finalists that survived local tournaments involving over 4,000 schools.
The tournament is sponsored by the Japan High School Baseball Federation (Nihon Koto-gakko Yakyu Renmei, aka Koyaren) and the Asahi Shimbun, a leading newspaper.
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AKA can be an abbreviation for Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated
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'''Aka''' (and#36196;and#26449;; -mura) is a villages of Japanvillage located in Tagawa District, FukuokaTagawa District, Fukuoka PrefectureFukuoka, Japan.
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'''Aka Morchiladze''' (pen name of '''Giorgi Akhvlediani''') (born November 10, 1966) is a Georgia (country)Georgian writer, one of the best novelists in the post-Soviet Georgia.
Uppity, funky, spunky monkey, are the only possible terms that can describe this dynamic duo.
Straight off the streets of Fukuoka, Japan, these budding stars on the dance club scene have been driving audiences wild with their version of bubbly non-threatening music.
Though the bands audience is actually very young and female, one can safely say that The Fukuoka Dream Team, brings out the 12 year old girl in all of us.
Bloodthirsty, sadomasochist lovers Futoshi Matsunaga and Junko Ogata may have been sentenced to swing from the gallows, but there are some who say executing the couple convicted for killing seven people only once isn't enough, according to Shukan Gendai (10/15).
Fukuoka District Court's Kokura Branch handed down the death penalty to Ogata and Matsunaga, saying that their crimes had been "cruel, twisted and inhumane."
They may still have been involved in their murderous lifestyle had it not been for a young girl who escaped their clutches in March 2002 and revealed a tale of heinous horror almost unparalleled in Japanese criminal history.
Attempting to achieve a balance between environmental and artistic aims, International Hall (aka ACROS Building) in Fukuoka Japan exhibits Emilio Ambasz and Associates' continued search for a widely accepted "green architecture".
Sited on the last piece of green space in the city center, Ambasz's approach of terracing the south facade as an extension of the adjacent existing park, while continuing the street wall on the north, illustrates his attempt at balancing two, often incompatible ideas.
In that simple gesture it redefines what an urban park can be.
If it wasn’t for a kind post office employee in Fukuoka, we might’ve never heard from Eri Nobuchika, one of the most promising Japanese singers to date.
As many girls, Eri always dreamt of a singing career.
At the audition, she didn’t raise too many eyebrows, but did raise one particular pair, those of Shinichi Osawa, aka Monda Grosso.
Exhibition Match: Sakie Hasegawa vs. Masami Watanabe (aka Chaparita ASARI).
Suzuka Minami and Etsuko Mita vs. Mima Shimoda and Saemi Numata (aka Numacchi).
Roller Coaster 4 x 4 Captain Fall Match: Mima Shimoda (captain) and Kaoru Ito and The Goddess Chikako Shiratori and Chaparita ASARI vs. Cuty Suzuki (captain) and Plum Mariko and Hikari Fukuoka and Commando Bolshoi (JWP team).
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Sadao Maeda AKA Sonny Chiba (He earned the nickname “Sonny” while working on an ad campaign for Toyota) was born on January 23rd, 1939 in Fukuoka, Kyushu, Japan.
In 1979 Chiba would return to T.V. with the series Hanzo Hattori AKA Shadow Warriors.
Over the next twenty years Chiba would make films in Hollywood and Hong Kong as well as continue to make films in Japan.