Sado (佐渡市, Sado-shi) is a city located on Sado Island (佐渡島, Sado-shima/Sado-ga-shima) in Niigata Prefecture, Japan. Since 2004, the city has comprised...
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coast and the twelfth-largest in Japan. Niigata Prefecture is part of the historic Hokuriku region and features Sado Island, the sixth largest island of Japan...
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City, Niigata Prefecture, Japan, with a coastline of 262.7 kilometres (163.2 mi). In October 2017, Sado Island had a population of 55,212 people. Sado Island...
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Sado Island, Niigata Prefecture, Japan. On March 1, 2004, Ryōtsu and the other 9 municipalities in the island were merged to create the city of Sado....
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Niigata Prefecture tend to have heavy snow, Niigata City itself usually receives less due to its low-lying elevation and the shielding effect of Sado...
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Sado Province (佐渡国, Sado no kuni) was a province of Japan until 1871; since then, it has been a part of Niigata Prefecture. It was sometimes called Sashū...
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The Sado gold mine (佐渡金山, Sado Kinzan) is a generic term for gold and silver mines which were once located on the island of Sado in Niigata Prefecture...
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Sado Airport (Japanese: 佐渡空港) (IATA: SDS, ICAO: RJSD) is a public aerodrome located in Sado, Niigata Prefecture, Japan. The airport opened in 1959 as a...
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a Japanese conductor Sado (film), a 2015 South Korean film Sado, Niigata, a city (佐渡市 Sado-shi) of Niigata Prefecture, Japan Sado, Setúbal [pt], a parish...
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Sado Steam Ship Co., Ltd. (佐渡汽船株式会社, Sado Kisen Kabushiki-gaisha) is a marine transportation company based in Sado, Niigata, Japan, it was founded as...
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Charles Robert Jenkins (category People from Sado, Niigata)
Hitomi Soga (born in 1958 or 1959) was a Japanese student nurse in Sado, Niigata when she and her mother were kidnapped by North Korean agents and taken...
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Sado (佐渡郡, Sado-gun) was a district located in Niigata Prefecture, Japan existing from 1896 by 2004. The Sado District was formed on April 1 of 1896 from...
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needed]. Two of Takashi Amano's landscape photos, featuring a cedar forest on Sado Island, were displayed at the 34th G8 Summit Working Lunch/Outreach Working...
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962.2-metre-high (3,157 ft) mountain in the city of Sado, located on Sado Island in Niigata, Japan. The Sado mine and Mount Kinpoku are nearby. v t e...
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Toi gold mine, the second most productive gold mine in Japan after Sado, Niigata. The total area was 49.41 km2. It was the location of the world's largest...
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Hitomi Soga (category People from Sado, Niigata)
were abducted from her hometown of Mano-cho, now part of the city of Sado, Niigata, on August 12, 1978, and taken to North Korea to train agents in Japanese...
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Ikki Kita (category People from Sado, Niigata)
Kita was born on Sado Island, Niigata Prefecture, where his father was a sake merchant and the first mayor of the local town. Sado island, which used...
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Masaharu Homma (category People from Sado, Niigata)
by firing squad on April 3, 1946. Homma was born on Sado Island, in the Sea of Japan off Niigata Prefecture. He graduated in the 14th class of the Imperial...
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Miage-nyūdō is a type of yōkai told about on Sado Island (Sado, Niigata Prefecture). They are a type of mikoshi-nyūdō. When climbing a small slope at night...
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Jōetsu (上越市, Jōetsu-shi) is a city located in Niigata Prefecture, Japan. As of 1 December 2020[update], the city had an estimated population of 189,430...
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Niigata City, the capital of Niigata Prefecture. After redistricting in 2022 it comprises two distinct parts. Chūō Ward Higashi Ward Kōnan Ward Sado City...
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Aka Akasaka (category Manga artists from Niigata Prefecture)
Aka Akasaka 赤坂 アカ Born (1988-08-29) August 29, 1988 (age 36) Sado, Niigata, Japan Area(s) Manga artist, writer Notable works Kaguya-sama: Love Is War...
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Chōjagadaira Site (category Sado, Niigata)
Jōmon period settlement located in the Ogi neighborhood of the city of Sado, Niigata in the Hokuriku region of Japan. The site was designated a National...
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Sado Island, Niigata Prefecture, Japan. On March 1, 2004, Aikawa and the other 9 municipalities in the island were merged to create the city of Sado....
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Niigata University (新潟大学, Niigata daigaku) is a national university in Niigata, Niigata Prefecture, Japan. It was established in 1949 and has its major...
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The Sado Kokubun-ji (佐渡国分寺) is a Shingon sect Buddhist temple located in the city of Sado, Niigata, Japan. Its honzon is Yakushi Nyōrai. It is the successor...
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Sado Okesa (in Japanese: 佐渡おけさ) is a Japanese folk song that originated in Sado Island, Niigata Prefecture. "Okesa' or "Okesabushi" is a style of the...
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Academy of Japan, Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture 00-8246 F-1 JASDF Sado sub-base, Sado, Niigata Prefecture 70-8201 F-1 Iruma Air Base, Sayama, Saitama Prefecture...
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currently keep the species.[citation needed] On September 25, 2008, in Sado, Niigata, the Sado Japanese Crested Ibis Preservation Center released 10 of the birds...
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mountain in Yahatanishi-ku, Kitakyūshū, Japan Mount Kongō (Sado), a mountain in Sado, Niigata, Japan Mount Kumgang, a mountain in Kangwon-do, North Korea...
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