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    Sado (佐渡市, Sado-shi) is a city located on Sado Island (佐渡島, Sado-shima/Sado-ga-shima) in Niigata Prefecture, Japan. Since 2004, the city has comprised...
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    coast and the twelfth-largest in Japan. Niigata Prefecture is part of the historic Hokuriku region and features Sado Island, the sixth largest island of Japan...
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    City, Niigata Prefecture, Japan, with a coastline of 262.7 kilometres (163.2 mi). In October 2017, Sado Island had a population of 55,212 people. Sado Island...
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    Niigata Prefecture tend to have heavy snow, Niigata City itself usually receives less due to its low-lying elevation and the shielding effect of Sado...
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    Sado Province (佐渡国, Sado no kuni) was a province of Japan until 1871; since then, it has been a part of Niigata Prefecture. It was sometimes called Sashū...
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    Sado Airport (Japanese: 佐渡空港) (IATA: SDS, ICAO: RJSD) is a public aerodrome located in Sado, Niigata Prefecture, Japan. The airport opened in 1959 as a...
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    Sado Island, Niigata Prefecture, Japan. On March 1, 2004, Ryōtsu and the other 9 municipalities in the island were merged to create the city of Sado....
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  • a Japanese conductor Sado (film), a 2015 South Korean film Sado, Niigata, a city (佐渡市 Sado-shi) of Niigata Prefecture, Japan Sado, Setúbal [pt], a parish...
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    Charles Robert Jenkins (category People from Sado, Niigata)
    Hitomi Soga (born in 1958 or 1959) was a Japanese student nurse in Sado, Niigata when she and her mother were kidnapped by North Korean agents and taken...
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    Sado (佐渡郡, Sado-gun) was a district located in Niigata Prefecture, Japan existing from 1896 by 2004. The Sado District was formed on April 1 of 1896 from...
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    The Sado gold mine (佐渡金山, Sado Kinzan) is a generic term for gold and silver mines which were once located on the island of Sado in Niigata Prefecture...
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    Sado Steam Ship Co., Ltd. (佐渡汽船株式会社, Sado Kisen Kabushiki-gaisha) is a marine transportation company based in Sado, Niigata, Japan, founded as Sado Shosen...
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    Toi gold mine, the second most productive gold mine in Japan after Sado, Niigata. The total area was 49.41 km2. It was the location of the world's largest...
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  • 962.2-metre-high (3,157 ft) mountain in the city of Sado, located on Sado Island in Niigata, Japan. The Sado mine and Mount Kinpoku are nearby. v t e...
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  • Hokkaido Tōyako Summit held July 7–9, 2008. The photos of a cedar forest on Sado Island taken with an 8 × 20-inch large format camera were exhibited on the...
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    Hitomi Soga (category People from Sado, Niigata)
    were abducted from her hometown of Mano-cho, now part of the city of Sado, Niigata, on August 12, 1978, and taken to North Korea to train agents in Japanese...
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    Masaharu Homma (category People from Sado, Niigata)
    by firing squad on April 3, 1946. Homma was born on Sado Island, in the Sea of Japan off Niigata Prefecture. He graduated in the 14th class of the Imperial...
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    Niigata City, the capital of Niigata Prefecture. After redistricting in 2022 it comprises two distinct parts. Chūō Ward Higashi Ward Kōnan Ward Sado City...
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  • Miage-nyūdō is a type of yōkai told about on Sado Island (Sado, Niigata Prefecture). They are a type of mikoshi-nyūdō. When climbing a small slope at night...
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  • The Sado Kokubun-ji (佐渡国分寺) is a Shingon sect Buddhist temple located in the city of Sado, Niigata, Japan. Its honzon is Yakushi Nyōrai. It is the successor...
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    Ikki Kita (category People from Sado, Niigata)
    Kita was born on Sado Island, Niigata Prefecture, where his father was a sake merchant and the first mayor of the local town. Sado island, which used...
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    Academy of Japan, Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture 00-8246 F-1 JASDF Sado sub-base, Sado, Niigata Prefecture 70-8201 F-1 Iruma Air Base, Sayama, Saitama Prefecture...
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  • Chōjagadaira Site (category Sado, Niigata)
    Jōmon period settlement located in the Ogi neighborhood of the city of Sado, Niigata in the Hokuriku region of Japan. The site was designated a National...
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    Watatsu Shrine (category Sado, Niigata)
    shrine in the Hamochiiioka neighborhood of the city of Sado, Niigata. It is the ichinomiya of former Sado Province. The main festival of the shrine is held...
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    Shin'etsu region (category Niigata geography stubs)
    the region also contains Sado Island from Sado Province. It is located in the modern-day prefectures of Nagano and Niigata. The name Shin-Etsu is used...
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    currently keep the species.[citation needed] On September 25, 2008, in Sado, Niigata, the Sado Japanese Crested Ibis Preservation Center released 10 of the birds...
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    Niigata 0259 Sado, Niigata 0259 Sanjō, Niigata 0256 Santō District, Niigata 0258 Sato District, Niigata 0256 Shibata, Niigata 0254 Shirone, Niigata 025...
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    Masuda Takashi (category People from Sado, Niigata)
    later renamed the Nihon Keizai Shimbun. Masuda was born on Sado Island, in what is now Niigata Prefecture. His father was an official in the Tokugawa shogunate...
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  • mountain in Yahatanishi-ku, Kitakyūshū, Japan Mount Kongō (Sado), a mountain in Sado, Niigata, Japan Mount Kumgang, a mountain in Kangwon-do, North Korea...
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    Festival) Archived 10 October 2009 at the Wayback Machine Hinamatsuri in Sado, Niigata, Japan (Doll's Festival) Video on Hinamatsuri (Hinamatsuri Girls' Day...
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