Sea of Stars - Wikipedia
WEBSea of Stars is a 2023 role-playing video game by Sabotage Studio. The game was released for Windows, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S and is set thousands of years before Sabotage Studio's previous game The Messenger (2018). In the game, players take control of two heroes named Valere and …
Noto Peninsula - Wikipedia
WEBLocation. The Noto Peninsula (能登半島, Noto-hantō) is a peninsula that projects north into the Sea of Japan from the coast of Ishikawa Prefecture in central Honshū, the main island of Japan. Before the Meiji era, the peninsula belonged to Noto Province. The main industries of the peninsula are agriculture, fisheries, and tourism.
Exclusive economic zone of Japan - Wikipedia
WEBExclusive economic zone of Japan. Japan has the eighth-largest exclusive economic zone (EEZ) in the world. [1] The total area of Japan is about 380 thousand km 2. [2] Japan's EEZ area is vast and the territorial waters (including the Seto Inland Sea) and EEZ together is about 4.47 million km 2. [3]
Kyoto - Wikipedia
WEBName. In Japanese, Kyoto was previously called Kyō (京), Miyako (都), Kyō no Miyako (京の都), and Keishi ().After becoming the capital of Japan at the start of the Heian period (794–1185), the city was often referred to as Heian-kyō (平安京, "Heian capital"), and late in the Heian period the city came to be widely referred to simply as "Kyōto" (京都, "capital …
Sea of Crete - Wikipedia
WEBSea of Crete. The Sea of Crete ( Greek: Κρητικό Πέλαγος, Kritiko Pelagos ), or Cretan Sea, is a sea, part of the Aegean Sea, located in its southern extremity, with a total surface area of 45,000 km 2 (17,000 sq mi). The sea stretches to the north of the island of Crete, east of the islands of Kythera and Antikythera, south of the ...
Battle of Tsushima - Wikipedia
WEBThe Battle of Tsushima (Russian: Цусимское сражение, Tsusimskoye srazheniye), also known in Japan as the Battle of the Sea of Japan (Japanese: 日本海海戦, Hepburn: Nihonkai kaisen), was the final naval battle of the Russo-Japanese War, fought on 27–28 May 1905 in the Tsushima Strait.A devastating defeat for the Imperial Russian Navy, the …
Provinces of Japan - Wikipedia
WEBProvinces of Japan (令制国, Ryōseikoku) were first-level administrative divisions of Japan from the 600s to 1868. Provinces were established in Japan in the late 7th century under the Ritsuryō law system that formed the first central government. Each province was divided into districts (郡, gun) and grouped into one of the geographic ...
2024 Noto earthquake - Simple English Wikipedia, the free …
WEBOn 1 January 2024, at 16:10 JST (07:10 UTC), a M w 7.5 earthquake happened in the Noto Peninsula of Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan. The earthquake caused a tsunami along the Sea of Japan. As of 26 March 2024, there were 245 deaths, 1,298 injuries and 2 others were missing, making it the deadliest earthquake in Japan since the 2016 Kumamoto …
Otaru - Wikipedia
WEBOtaru (小樽市, Otaru-shi) is a city and port in Shiribeshi Subprefecture, Hokkaido, Japan, northwest of Sapporo.The city faces Ishikari Bay and the Sea of Japan, and has long served as the main port of the bay.With its many historical buildings, Otaru is a popular tourist destination. Because it is a 25-minute drive from Sapporo, it has grown as a …
1969 EC-121 shootdown incident - Wikipedia
WEB1969 EC-121 shootdown incident. On 15 April 1969, [Note 1] a United States Navy Lockheed EC-121M Warning Star of Fleet Air Reconnaissance Squadron One ( VQ-1) on a reconnaissance mission was shot down by a North Korean MiG-21 aircraft over the Sea of Japan. The plane crashed 90 nautical miles (167 km) off the North Korean coast and all …
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