Eight Omura ’ s whales were taken by Japanese scientific whaling in the 1970s, six in the Solomon Sea in October 1976 and two near the Cocos Islands in November 1978.

According to a book by Omura Sakae, a long time sister city supporter who stayed in Colorado Springs and taught at Colorado College, the torii gate was funded by the Downtown Rotary Club for $ 1500 dollars, which included a Japanese garden.

While Arigó performed his procedures using kitchen knives in improvised settings, Omura reports that the clamping of blood vessels and the closing of the surgical wounds are now performed by licensed surgeons or licensed nurses.

* June 23 – Omura Sumitada, Japanese Christian daimyo ( b. 1532 )

She has recorded with Yellow Magic Orchestra and its members Ryuichi Sakamoto, Haruomi Hosono, and Yukihiro Takahashi, as well as Swing Out Sister, Pat Metheny, The Chieftains, Lyle Mays, members of Little Feat, David Sylvian, Mick Karn, Kenji Omura, Gil Goldstein, Toninho Horta, Mino Cinelu, Jeff Bova, Charlie Haden, Peter Erskine, Anthony Jackson, David Rhodes, Bill Frisell, Thomas Dolby, the band Quruli, Rei Harakami as yanokami, and her daughter Miu Sakamoto.

The same year, Masujiro Omura established Japan's first military academy in Kyoto.

Omura further proposed military billets be filled by all classes of people including farmers and merchants.

The common name and specific epithet commemorates Japanese cetologist Hideo Omura.

and Omura, A., 1971.

原田真人 Harada Masato, born July 3, 1949 in Numazu, Shizuoka ) is a Japanese film director, critic, and sometimes an actor ; he is best known to Western audiences as Omura in The Last Samurai and as Mr Mita in Fearless.

* The Last Samurai ( 2003 ) as Mr. Omura

According to the descriptions of Yoshiaki Omura, Brazilian psychic surgery appears to be different from that practiced in the Philippines.

Omura calls attention to the fact that practitioners in Brazil use techniques resembling Qigong, Shiatsu massage, and chiropractic manipulation.

JAL Flight Academy ( JFA ) was established by Japan Airlines ( JAL ) in August 1989, as a flight training school subsidiary based at Omura Airport, Nagasaki.

Hikotaro Omura opened a dry goods store at Nihonbashi in Edo, ( now Tokyo ) in August 1662.

Omura called the store Shirokiya Gofukuten, a name that would last until the 20th century.

The area previously known as Akeno has five Elementary schools ( Murata, Omura, Nagasa, Toba and Ueno ), one Junior high school and one High School.

The mainland portion of the airport opened as a military aerodrome in 1923, and commenced civilian joint use as Omura Airport ( 大村空港 ) in 1955.

Most notable was their support of Omura Sumitada and Arima Harunobu, who fought against the anti-Catholic Ryuzoji clan.

For these movie versions, Jūrō Iwai / Moonlight Mask was played by Fumitake Omura.

Laurens died in Omura prison on 29 December 1631.

Nezu Shrine in Bunkyo, Tokyo, holds a Tsutsuji Matsuri from early April until early May.

Inuyama, Japan, holds a festival called the Momotaro Festival at the Momotaro Shrine on May 5 of every year.

The cemetery holds the graves of many muslims, and is located near the Shrine of Imam Ali ibn Abi Talib, the first Shia Imam and fourth Sunni Caliph.

From there they eventually made their way to Germany and the Shrine of the Three Kings at Cologne Cathedral now reportedly holds their remains.

* Daeseongjeon ( 대성전 ): Shrine which holds the memorial for Confucius.

Starting in the late 1940s, after the independence of Israel, he also started to develop the Bahá ' í World Centre in Haifa, including the construction of the superstructure of the Shrine of the Báb and the building of the International Archives as well as beautifying the gardens at Bahji, where the Shrine of Bahá ' u ' lláh is located ; these plans continued through the 1950s.

Since the late 1970s, five " great revolutionary plays " have been promoted as prototypes of the party's literature: The Shrine for a Tutelary Deity, a theatrical rendition of The Flower Girl, Three Men, One Party, " A Letter from a Daughter, and Hyolbun mangukhoe " ( Resentment at the World Conference ).

Okihiki for the Inner Shrine is held in late July and starts near the Isuzu River.

In the late Heian Period ( 12th century ), Aki Province became well known for the Itsukushima Shrine.

) were unmarried female relatives of the Japanese emperor, termed Saiō in the singular, who served as high priestesses at Ise Grand Shrine from the late 7th century until the 14th century.

From the late 7th century until the 14th century, the role of high priestess of Ise Shrine was carried out by a female member of the Japanese imperial family, known as a Saiō.

From the late 7th century, when the festivals and offerings of Ise Shrine became more formalised, a number of annual events have been performed at both Naikū and Gekū.

During the late Heian period the cult of Amaterasu, worshiped initially only at Ise Shrine, started to spread to the shrine's possessions through the usual kanjō mechanism.

Originally founded as an all-girls school in the late 1930s as " Little Flower High ," the parish added the all-boys school " Shrine High School ," eventually merging the two.

Most recently, Chante performed at the 2012 BET Awards at the Shrine Auditorium in a tribute to the late singer Donna Summer.

In 1873, four samurai worship at Shingai Shrine in Kumamoto Prefecture, and then await the results of a divination performed by the priest Otaguro, the heir of the late, revered Oen Hayashi, whose 200 followers will come to be known as " the League of the Divine Wind ".

Yaizu is an ancient settlement, with Yaizu Shrine claiming to have been founded in the 5th century during the Kofun period.

Current professional sumo tournaments began in the Tomioka Hachiman Shrine in 1684, and then were held in the Ekō-in in the Edo period.

Ise Shrine is said to have been established during the Yayoi period, and in the 7th century the Saikū Imperial Residence was built in what is now Meiwa Town to serve as both a residence and administrative centre for the Saiō, an Imperial Princess who served as High Priestess of Ise Shrine.

Tirad Pass, declared a National Shrine, held the last stand of the Filipino Revolutionary Forces under General Emilio Aguinaldo of that same period.

* Katsushika Hachiman Shrine: A Shinto shrine built in the Heian period.

By the Nara period, it had developed as a port, and as a monzenmachi associated with Katori Shrine, and in the Heian period was a regional commerce center for numerous shōen in the area.

Gotemba was the site of a shōen belonging to Ise Shrine in the Heian period.

Because of the religious importance of Ise Grand Shrine, the shogunate during the Edo period viewed the area as politically significant and installed a magistrate in Yamada.

The city's importance as a port for pilgrims coming from the Kyōto and Ōsaka areas to worship at the Kompira Shrine in Kotohira ( from the Tokugawa period to the early Meiji period ), declined with the opening of the railway between Matsuyama and Takamatsu in 1889, and more recently with the development of bus and air service linking Kotohira with major cities.

Munakata Shrine specifies itself as the territory of the god of Kyūshū during the Asuka period — ranging from Onga in the east, south to Wakamiya and Miyata, and Shingū in the west.

file: Zenshu Shrine. JPG | Shinto shrine in Jeonju during Korea under Japanese rule's period.

According to the Man ' yōshū ( The Anthology of Ten Thousand Leaves ), the first Saiō to serve at Ise Grand Shrine was Princess Oku, daughter of Emperor Temmu, during the Asuka period of Japanese history.

Ninomiya was the location of the second-highest ranked shrine in Sagami Province, Kawawa Shrine, which is mentioned in Heian period records, and claims to have been established by the semi-legendary Emperor Suinin.

During this period were built in Portugal in the great works of art which are: Library of the Convent and Convent of Mafra, the Tower of the Clerics, the Baroque Library, the Church and stairs of Bom Jesus de Braga, the Shrine of Our Lady of Remedies in Lamego, the Palace and the Port of Ash Solar de Mateus in Vila Real.

Yamasaki has existed as a town for about fifty years, but the area has been occupied since the Ōnin period in the fifteenth century, as its ancient " Hachiman Shrine " denotes.

During the Empire of Japan period, and the establishment of State Shinto, the position of high priest of the Ise Shrine was fulfilled by the reigning Emperor, and Emperors Meiji, Taisho and Showa all played the role of high priest during their reigns.

During the Edo period the area developed into a thriving agricultural center and post-town, providing lodging to people making the pilgrimage to Ise Grand Shrine.

Due to its geographic proximity to Ise Province, during the Nara and Heian period, large portions of its lands were managed as shōen controlled by Ise Shrine or under the direct control of the Imperial family.

* National Archives of Japan: Kasugashinkozu, scroll showing annual festival at Nara Kasuga Grand Shrine ( Edo period )

From this period, the Yasukuni Shrine ( originally founded in 1869 ) was converted into a focus for nationalist sentiment, and received state patronage until the end of World War II.