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Takeshi Kaga , real name Shigekatsu Katsuta , is a well-known stage and movie actor in Japan who is probably best known internationally for his portrayal of Chairman Kaga in the Japanese television show Iron Chef produced by Fuji TV.
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  • 11. Great sugi of Kayano Kaga
    The great sugi of Kayano is a Cryptomeria tree at Yamanaka Onsen in Kaga, Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan. One of the four trees believed to be sacred in the precincts of the Sugawara Shrine, it has received the distinction of designation as a Special Natural Monument from the Agency for Cultural Affairs of Japan. The tree stands 54.8 m tall. At the base, it measures 11.5 m in circumference and 3.41 m across. At chest height, it is 9.6 m around and 3.0 m across. The tree splits into two trunks 4.9 m above ground level. In 1928, Professor Miyoshi Manabu of Tokyo Imperial University estimated the age of the tree to be 2,300 years.The other three are 8.8 m, 6.65 m and 7.8 m at chest height and natural monument of Ishikawa Prefecture. Jōmon period artifacts unearthed near the shrine establish that...
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  • 12. Kaga Hashidate Kaga
    Kaga was an aircraft carrier built for the Imperial Japanese Navy and was named after the former Kaga Province in present-day Ishikawa Prefecture. Originally intended to be one of two Tosa-class battleships, Kaga was converted under the terms of the Washington Naval Treaty to an aircraft carrier as the replacement for the battlecruiser Amagi, which had been damaged during the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake. Kaga was rebuilt in 1933–35, increasing her top speed, improving her exhaust systems, and adapting her flight decks to more modern, heavier aircraft. The ship figured prominently in the development of the IJN's carrier striking force doctrine, which grouped carriers together to give greater mass and concentration to their air power. A revolutionary strategic concept at the time, the emp...
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