Kagawa
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Kagawa can refer to:
- Kagawa PrefectureKagawa Prefectureis a prefecture of Japan located on Shikoku island. The capital is Takamatsu.- History :Kagawa was formerly known as Sanuki Province.For a brief period between August 1876 and December 1888, Kagawa was made a part of Ehime Prefecture.-Battle of Yashima:...
(香川県) - Kagawa District, KagawaKagawa District, Kagawais a district located in Kagawa, Japan.As of the January 10, 2006 Takamatsu merger , the district consists of the single town of Naoshima and has an estimated population of 3,583 and a density of 251.97 persons per km²...
(香川郡) - Kagawa, KagawaKagawa, Kagawawas a town located in Kagawa District, Kagawa, Japan.On January 10, 2006 Kagawa, along with the towns of Aji and Mure, both from Kita District, the town of Kōnan, also from Kagawa District, and the town of Kokubunji, from Ayauta District, was merged into the expanded city of Takamatsu and no longer...
(香川町), town located in Kagawa District - Kagawa StationKagawa Station (Kanagawa)is a train station in the city of Chigasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. It is 3.4 rail kilometers from the terminal station of the Sagami Line, .-History:...
(香川駅), train station in ChigasakiChigasaki, Kanagawais a city located in central, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. As of 2010, the city had an estimated population of 234,400 and a density of 6,540 persons per km²...
, Kanagawa PrefectureKanagawa Prefectureis a prefecture located in the southern Kantō region of Japan. The capital is Yokohama. Kanagawa is part of the Greater Tokyo Area.-History:The prefecture has some archaeological sites going back to the Jōmon period... - 6665 Kagawa6665 Kagawa6665 Kagawa is a main-belt asteroid discovered on February 14, 1993 by T. Urata at the Nihondaira Observatory.- External links :...
, main-belt asteroid
People
- Emiko Kagawa (香川恵美子), announcer, wife of So TaguchiSo Taguchiis a Nippon Professional Baseball outfielder who is currently playing with the Orix Buffaloes. Previously, he has played for the St. Louis Cardinals, Philadelphia Phillies and the Chicago Cubs in Major League Baseball, and with the Orix BlueWave in Nippon Professional Baseball.Taguchi is the first...
- Julie KagawaJulie KagawaJulie Kagawa is an American author, best known for writing the Iron Fey series consisting of four books: The Iron King, The Iron Daughter, The Iron Queen and The Iron Knight. She has also written two e-books called Winter's Passage and Summer's Crossing. Her books made it to the New York Times...
, American author - Kyōko KagawaKyôko Kagawais a Japanese actress. She has appeared in leading and supporting roles in such films as Akira Kurosawa's The Bad Sleep Well and High and Low, Yasujiro Ozu's Tokyo Story, and Kenji Mizoguchi's Sansho the Bailiff.- Filmography :...
(香川京子), actress - Masao Kagawa, karateka
- Nobuyuki Kagawa (香川伸行), baseball player
- Shinji KagawaShinji Kagawais a Japanese footballer who plays for German Bundesliga club Borussia Dortmund. He previously played for Cerezo Osaka. He has been capped by Japan at international level.-Club career:...
(香川真司), football player - Ryo Kagawa, (加川良), folk singer
- Teruyuki Kagawa (香川照之), actor
- Tetsuo KagawaTetsuo Kagawais a Japanese astronomer.He is a prolific discoverer of asteroids. 6665 Kagawa, an asteroid, was named after him.-External links:*...
, astronomer - Toyohiko KagawaToyohiko Kagawathumb|right|200px|At Princeton Theological Seminarythumb|right|200px|Great Kantō earthquake, 1923thumb|right|200px|In America, 1935 was a Japanese Christian pacifist, Christian reformer, and labour activist. Kagawa wrote, spoke, and worked at length on ways to employ Christian principles in the...
, pacifist and labor activist