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Since the Type 91 torpedo was the only practical aerial torpedo of the Imperial Japanese Navy, it was simply known as the Koku Gyorai or "aerial torpedo". Surface warships and submarines used other types of torpedoes, namely the Type 93 and Type 95 respectively, while the Type 97 torpedo was designed for use by midget submarines.
The situation became more quiescent in the 18th century with increasing prosperity due to the growth of whaling and the establishment of the separate Tomiei sub-domain (3000 koku) on Shinkamigotō. Towards the end of the Bakumatsu period , the 10th daimyō of Fukue Domain, Gotō Moriakira began reconstruction of Ishida Castle , with the work ...
The koku (斛) is a Chinese-based Japanese unit of volume. 1 koku is equivalent to 10 to or approximately 180 litres (40 imp gal; 48 US gal), [a] [1] or about 150 kilograms (330 lb) of rice. It converts, in turn, to 100 shō and 1000 gō . [ 2 ]
Map illustrating the path from the Daifeng commandery to Yamatai, and its distances in the Wajinden. The location of Yamatai-koku is one of the most contentious topics in Japanese history . Generations of historians have debated "the Yamatai controversy" and have hypothesized numerous localities, some of which are fanciful like Okinawa (Farris ...
The 8-kilometre-wide (5.0 mi) fireball reached nearly as high as the altitude of the release plane and was visible at almost 1,000 km (620 mi) away. [46] The mushroom cloud was about 67 km (42 mi) high [ 47 ] (nearly eight times the height of Mount Everest ), which meant that the cloud was above the stratosphere and well inside the mesosphere ...
1000 or one thousand is the natural number following 999 and preceding 1001. In most English-speaking countries, it can be written with or without a comma or sometimes a period separating the thousands digit: 1,000. A group of one thousand units is sometimes known, from Ancient Greek, as a chiliad. [1]
Araki Murashige conquered Settsu Province for Oda Nobunaga and rebuilt an ancient fortification which had been erected by the Akamatsu clan as Sanda Castle in 1575. After he was killed in his revolt against Nobunaga in 1582, the castle was assigned to Nobunaga's general, Yamazaki Katase as part of a 23,000 koku domain.