Gōtsu is a city located in Shimane Prefecture, Japan.As of 30 June 2023, the city had an estimated population of 21,913 in 11196 households and a population density of 82 persons per km2. The total area of the city is 268.24 square kilometres (103.57 sq mi). It is the smallest and least populous city in Shimane Prefecture.
Mishima is a village consisting of the inhabited islands of Iōjima, Kuroshima and Takeshima and the uninhabited islands of Shōwa Iōjima and Denshima located in Kagoshima District, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan. The village office is located in the city of Kagoshima, outside the village.
The University of Shiga Prefecture is a public university in Hikone, Shiga, Japan. The predecessor of the school was founded in 1950, and it was chartered as a university in 1995.
Kagoshima Green Tea is grown in Kagoshima Prefecture, the second largest producer of unprocessed tea after Shizuoka Prefecture. A lot of Kagoshima Green Tea is known as blended tea for other places of production, but it is getting famous as its own brand with more rigorous standards these days. The name, Kagoshima Green Tea, has been used since about 1992.
Stegodon aurorae, also known as the Akebono elephant, is a species of fossil elephantoid known from Early Pleistocene Japan and Taiwan.
Kento Hayashi is a Japanese actor. He has appeared in more than 30 films since 2007.
Hikimi Wasabi (匹見ワサビ) is a variety of wasabi cultivated in Hikimi Town, Shimane Prefecture, Japan.
The Wajima Museum of Urushi Art is a museum located in Wajima, Japan. The museum specializes in lacquer art.
Nyonin Kinsei (女人禁制) is a general term for a type of society custom against women that is found in Japan.
Moka Kamishiraishi is a Japanese actress, singer, and fashion model. As a singer, her stage name is Adieu. She is the younger sister of actress Mone Kamishiraishi.
The Pokémon Fossil Museum is a travelling exhibition based on the Pokémon media franchise, displaying illustrations and "life-size" sculpted renditions of the skeletons of fossil Pokémon, along with the actual fossils of the real-life prehistoric animals and other organisms on which they were based. The exhibit was created by the National Museum of Nature and Science and The Pokémon Company.
Amakusaichthys is an extinct genus of ichthyodectiform fish which lived during the Late Cretaceous, known from only one species A. goshouraensis. Fossils are known from Kumamoto Prefecture in Japan.
Yoshitsugu Kobayashi is a Japanese vertebrate paleontologist. He is a professor and the assistant director in Hokkaido University Museum. His major achievements include the description and naming of several dinosaurs from Japan, for example, Kamuysaurus, Yamatosaurus and Paralitherizinosaurus. He is also a research affiliate of Perot Museum of Nature and Science, a member of Jurassic Foundation, a councilor of Palaeontological Society of Japan.
"Satsuma-utsunomiya-ryu" is an undescribed plesiosaur known from Kyushu, Japan. This nickname is named after the former province name of the discovery site and the discoverer, Satoshi Utsunomiya. It is the oldest known elasmosaurid plesiosaur fossil in East Asia, dating back to approximately 100 million years ago. It is permanently exhibited at the Kagoshima Prefectural Museum.
Satsumayokuryu is the informal name for a pterosaur fossil discovered in Shishijima, Nagashima, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan, making it the first pterosaur fossil ever found in Kagoshima Prefecture and dating back to the Late Cretaceous Cenomanian epoch, approximately 100 million years ago. It was accidentally discovered by "Salaryman Fossil Hunter" Satoshi Utsunomiya during his coverage for NHK's "Darwin's Amazing Animals". The fossil was later named "Satsuma Pterosaur".
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