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Hiji Falls (比地大滝, Hiji Ōtaki) is a National Park and a popular tourist destination on the island and prefecture of Okinawa, Japan. It is located in the northern part of the Okinawa Island , approximately 20 kilometers north of the city of Nago and close to the Yambaru National Park . [ 1 ]
The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department Fire Bureau building during the Taishō era. Historically, police were responsible for firefighting in Japan. Japan's first fire service was founded in 1629 during the Edo period, and was called hikeshi (Japanese: 火消し, lit. fire extinguisher).
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Okinawa is the fifth largest island of Japan. The island has an area of 1,206.99 square kilometers (466.02 sq mi). The coastline is 476 kilometers (296 mi) long. [36] The straight-line distance is about 106.6 kilometers (66.2 mi) from north to south. [37] Okinawa is in the northeastern end of Okinawa Prefecture.
Okinawa’s historic Shuri Castle was gutted by a fire early on the morning of October 31.There were no injuries reported from the fire that started in the early morning and was put out by ...
"Ryukyu" is an other name from the Chinese side, and "Okinawa" is a Japanese cognate of Okinawa's indigenous name "Uchinā", originating from the residents of the main island referring to the main island against the surrounding islands, Miyako and Yaeyama. [27] Mainland Japanese adapted Okinawa as the way to call these people. [citation needed]
The Himeyuri students (ひめゆり学徒隊, Himeyuri Gakutotai, Lily Princesses Student Corps), sometimes called "Lily Corps" in English, was a group of 222 students and 18 teachers of the Okinawa Daiichi (First) Girls' High School [] and Okinawa Shihan Women's School [] formed into a nursing unit for the Imperial Japanese Army during the Battle of Okinawa in 1945.
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