Kaiten (回天, literal translation: "Turning the Heaven", commonly rendered as "turn of the Heaven's will", "the heaven shaker") were crewed torpedoes and...
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Look up kaiten in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Kaiten were a Japanese World War II suicide torpedo. Kaiten may also refer to: Kaiten, a rolling maneuver...
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Kaiten Books LLC is an independent American language localization and publishing company located in Southern California. The company focuses on the translation...
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Kaiten Memorial Museum (回天記念館, Kaiten Kinen-kan) is a museum on the island of Ōzushima in the Inland Sea, in Shūnan, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan, dedicated...
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was modified to carry Kaiten manned torpedoes, making several attacks that inflicted minor damage in exchange for every Kaiten launched being sunk. The...
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Conveyor belt sushi (redirect from Kaiten sushi)
Conveyor belt sushi (Japanese: 回転寿司, Hepburn: kaiten-zushi), also called rotation sushi, is a type of sushi restaurant common in Japan. In Australasia...
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Japanese submarine I-47 (section First kaiten mission)
the Imperial Japanese Navy. Commissioned in July 1944, she operated as a kaiten manned suicide attack torpedo carrier during the final year of World War...
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increased to 1.6 tons for Kaiten. The Type 93 torpedo is 9.61 m (31.5 ft) long and weighs about three tons, while the Kaiten was 15 m (49 ft) long and...
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chapters have been collected into nineteen tankōbon volumes. In March 2020, Kaiten Books announced that they licensed the manga for English publication. An...
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2023, 11 volumes have been released. The series is licensed in English by Kaiten Books. An anime television series adaptation was announced on September...
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Ningen Gyorai Kaiten (人間魚雷回天, Ningen gyorai kaiten), literally Human-Steered Torpedo Kaiten, is a 1955 black-and-white Japanese film directed by Shūe...
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SMS Danzig (1851) (redirect from Japanese warship Kaiten)
Prussian Navy and served in the navy of the Japanese Tokugawa shogunate as the Kaiten (Japanese: 回天) from 1864 until 1869, and then briefly with the breakaway...
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Dainihon Itangeishateki Noumiso Gyaku Kaiten Zekkyou Ongenshuu (大日本異端芸者的脳味噌逆回転絶叫音源集), abbrev. D.I.N.G.K.Z.O., is a compilation album by the Gazette, featuring...
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due to engine trouble, the Takao trailed behind, and the Kaiten first joined battle. The Kaiten approached the enemy ships and raised the Bakufu flag seconds...
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Japanese Special Attack Units (section Kaiten)
so, and this provision was dropped from later production kaitens. The inventor of the Kaiten, Lt. Hiroshi Kuroki was lost during one of the first training...
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Japanese submarine I-361 (section Kaiten carrier)
Island until she was converted into a kaiten suicide attack torpedo carrier 1945. She was sunk during her first kaiten mission in May 1945. I-361 was laid...
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campaign at the time of the Battle of Leyte Gulf. She then operated as a kaiten suicide attack torpedo carrier, including during the Battle of Okinawa,...
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widespread name outside of Kantō region. Kaiten-yaki (回転焼き) or Kaiten manjū (回転饅頭) – Kansai and Kyūshū region. kaiten (回転) means "rotation," i.e., derived...
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Japanese Navy began arming their submarine fleet with manned torpedoes called kaitens. The Action of 24 July 1945 concerns the battle between a convoy of U.S...
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Japanese submarine I-36 (section First kaiten mission)
Aleutian Islands campaign, and the Marshall Islands. She finished the war as a kaiten manned suicide attack torpedo carrier, operating against Allied ships at...
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submarine before she was converted into a kaiten suicide attack torpedo carrier. She then conducted kaiten operations during the Battle of Iwo Jima and...
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be hit by a Japanese Kaiten manned torpedo. The ship sank with a loss of 63 hands as well as the kaiten pilot. Of the five kaiten sent against US ships...
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Takao Maru (高雄丸), later renamed Kaiten No.2 (第二回天, Daini Kaiten), was a steam warship of the former navy of the Tokugawa shogunate during the Boshin War...
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Pizza Magazine. Retrieved 22 August 2024. A.I, Kaiten (2018-06-29). "Why Dodo Pizza started using Kaiten instead of Trello & Jira tandem". Medium. Archived...
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at Hikari for conducting kaiten attacks. Rear Admiral Nagai Mitsuru was the Commanding Officer. On that same day, a kaiten crew training unit is also...
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Japan's first screw-driven steam warship Chōyō (1858) Kaiyō Maru (1866) Kaiten Banryū Chogei Shinsoku Mikaho Yoshun(ja:陽春丸) Kasuga Chiyodagata (1863),...
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Japanese Navy. Commissioned in February 1944, she operated primarily as a kaiten manned suicide attack torpedo carrier during the final year of World War...
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Yoshiaki Shiraishi opened the first conveyor belt sushi restaurant (回転寿司, kaiten-zushi) named "Genroku Zushi" in Higashi-Osaka. In conveyor belt sushi restaurants...
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Type D submarine (section Kaiten missions)
four survived the war. In 1945, several submarines were converted to be Kaiten mother ships and assigned to the suicide attack operations for the Shinchō...
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so, and this provision was dropped from later production kaitens. The inventor of the Kaiten, Lt. Hiroshi Kuroki was lost during one of the first training...
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