map of Yamaguchi Prefecture Iwakuni Domain (Japan) Show map of Japan Iwakuni Domain (岩国藩, Iwakuni-han) was a feudal domain under the Tokugawa shogunate...
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Iwakuni (岩国市, Iwakuni-shi) is a city located in Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan. As of 1 June 2023[update], the city had an estimated population of 127,512...
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Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni or MCAS Iwakuni (岩国飛行場, Iwakuni hikōjō) (IATA: IWK, ICAO: RJOI) is a joint Japan Maritime Self-Defense Forces and United...
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portion of his much reduced domain to Hiroie. He is therefore often mistakenly considered the first ruler of an Iwakuni han; however, unlike the Mōri...
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Province. During the Edo Period, the area was part of the holdings of Iwakuni Domain. Following the Meiji restoration, the village of Yanai within Kumage...
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Kintai Bridge (category Iwakuni, Yamaguchi)
National Treasure in 1922. After Iwakuni Castle was completed in 1608 by Kikkawa Hiroie, the first lord of Iwakuni Domain, a series of wooden bridges was...
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provinces of Suō and Nagato, and the Kikkawa clan was transferred to Iwakuni Domain. The Tokugawa shogunate assigned Izumo and Oki Provinces to Horio Tadauji...
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Province. During the Edo Period, the area was part of the holdings of Iwakuni Domain. Following the Meiji restoration, the area was organized into villages...
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historical materials donated by the Kikkawa family, former lords of Iwakuni Domain, the facility first opened in April 1944, operating fully as a museum...
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the fixed-wing aircraft of CVW-5 relocated to Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni in western Japan. CVW-5 shares the base with the Headquarters Fleet Air...
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Province. During the Edo Period, the area was part of the holdings of Iwakuni Domain. Following the Meiji restoration, the area was organized into villages...
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confiscated domains whose daimyo were unable to produce heirs, the Mōri daimyo created four subordinate han ruled by branches of the family: Iwakuni han: 60...
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Chrysanthemum. Hasegawa was born as the son of a samurai fencing master in the Iwakuni sub-fief of Chōshū (present-day Yamaguchi Prefecture), Hasegawa served...
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Kintai Bridge in Iwakuni Kintaikyo Festival in Iwakuni - held on April 29 Nishiki River Water Festival in Iwakuni - held in August Iwakuni Festival in August...
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viscounts, this allegation does not hold water. As with most domains in the han system, Iwakuni Domain consisted of several discontinuous territories calculated...
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Kikkawa Historical Museum (category Iwakuni, Yamaguchi)
Kikkawa clan, daimyō of Iwakuni Domain, in Iwakuni, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan. Located between Kintai-kyō bridge and Iwakuni Castle and opened by the...
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former Suo Province is now divided between the cities of Hōfu, Kudamatsu, Iwakuni, Hikari, Yanai, Shūnan, Ōshima District, Kuga District, Kumage District...
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Shipbuilding and Coal Mining". UNESCO. Retrieved 8 August 2019. 萩藩主毛利家墓所 [Hagi Domain Mōri Clan Graves] (in Japanese). Yamaguchi Prefectural Board of Education...
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List of han (redirect from Yonago Domain)
Miyoshi (1632-1720) Hiroshima (1591-1871) Hiroshimashinden (1730-1869) Iwakuni (1587-1871) Tokuyama (1650-1871) Kudamatsu (dates unknown) Chōshū (1600-1871)...
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F-35B Lightning II. The squadron is based at Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, Japan and falls under the command of Marine Aircraft Group 12 (MAG-12)...
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Inoue Hikaru (category People from Iwakuni, Yamaguchi)
Russo-Japanese War. Inoue was born as a younger son to the Moriwaki family in Iwakuni Domain (present day Yamaguchi prefecture), and was later adopted into the Inoue...
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late that month, calling at Pearl Harbor; Sasebo, Yokosuka, Kobe, and Iwakuni, Japan; and at Okinawa and Hong Kong, while fulfilling her assigned tasks...
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April 1965 VMCJ-1 took its EF-10B aircraft from Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, Japan and joined Marine Aircraft Group 16 (MAG-16) at Danang to combat...
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form is known, with specimens especially numerous near Iwakuni, where they are called "Iwakuni white snakes" and revered as messengers of deities and...
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Arisaka Nariakira (category People from Iwakuni, Yamaguchi)
Arisaka was born in Iwakuni, Suo province (currently part of Yamaguchi prefecture) as the 4th son of a samurai retainer of Chōshū Domain. At the age of 11...
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dropped 1300 tons of ordnance. They rotated to Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni in September 1968 and returned to Vietnam during the summer of 1969, this...
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Marine Corps Air Station Yuma in Arizona; and Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni in Japan. July 2020: A DHS contract to expand its virtual border wall program...
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Kitahiroshima Shimane Prefecture Hamada Tsuwano Yoshika Yamaguchi Prefecture Hagi Iwakuni Masuda has a humid subtropical climate (Köppen climate classification Cfa)...
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1st Marine Aircraft Wing, Fleet Marine Force, Pacific, and moved to MCAS Iwakuni, Japan. On 21 June 1965, the first Black Sheep division flew into Chu Lai...
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Commandant of the Marine Corps. In March 1971 VMFA-115 was relocated to Iwakuni, Japan. On 6 April 1972 the squadron flew into Da Nang Air Base to support...
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