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Battle of Midway. Akagi (Japanese: 赤城, "Red castle", named after Mount Akagi) was an aircraft carrier built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN). Though she was laid down as an Amagi -class battlecruiser, Akagi was converted to an aircraft carrier while still under construction to comply with the terms of the Washington Naval Treaty.
Relief Map of Akagi Volcano. Mount Akagi (赤城山, Akagi-yama, Red Castle) is a stratovolcano in Gunma Prefecture, Japan. The broad, low dominantly andesitic stratovolcano rises above the northern end of the Kanto Plain. It contains an elliptical, 3 km × 4 km (1.9 mi × 2.5 mi) summit caldera with post-caldera lava domes arranged along a NW ...
Service record. Operations: Battle of the Yalu River (1894) Boxer Rebellion. Siege of Port Arthur. Akagi (赤城) was a steel-hulled, steam gunboat, serving in the early Imperial Japanese Navy. She was the fourth and final vessel to be completed in the four-vessel Maya class [1] and was named after Mount Akagi in Gunma Prefecture.
Akagi Castle is located in the hills of former Muro District of Kii Province in the western part of the city of Kumano, at an elevation of 230 meters, with a relative height of 30-40 meters above its surroundings. The area is a small basin surrounded by the Kii Mountains on an ancient route connecting the Ise Shrine with the Kumano Shrines.
Japan's compulsory education ends at grade nine, but less than 2% drop out; 60% of students advanced to senior education as of 1960, increasing rapidly to over 90% by 1980, rising further each year until reaching 98.3% as of 2012. [ 36 ] Instruction in primary schools is often in the form of lectures.
Akagi: Yami ni Oritatta Tensai (アカギ 〜闇に降り立った天才〜, lit. "Akagi: The Genius Who Descended into Darkness") is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Nobuyuki Fukumoto. First published in 1991 in Takeshobo 's weekly magazine Kindai Mahjong, it is a spin-off prequel to the author's previous work Ten.
Akagi Station (Gunma) / 36.4255; 139.2769. Akagi Station (赤城駅, Akagi-eki) is a passenger railway station in the city of Midori, Gunma, Japan, operated by the private railway operators Tōbu Railway and the Jōmō Electric Railway .
Japanese ship. Akagi. At least two warships of Japan have borne the name Akagi: Japanese gunboat Akagi, which served in the Sino-Japanese War. Japanese aircraft carrier Akagi, which served in World War II. Categories: Set index articles on ships. Japanese Navy ship names. Imperial Japanese Navy ship names.