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Hatta Yoichi
was a Japanese engineer, known for his contributions in hydraulic engineering in the Japanese-ruled Taiwan. Hatta was born in Kanazawa, Ishikawa. After graduating from Tokyo Imperial University in 1910, he joined the Seat of Governor-General of Taiwan, served as a technician of the government. He was the designer of Chianan Canal and Wusanto Reservoir. He was killed on board the transport ship Taiyō Maru, when it was torpedoed and sunk on May 8, 1942 by US submarine ''Grenadier''. In contemporary Taiwan he is honored as a deity for his contributions to irrigation. See also *Pattenrai!! ~ Minami no Shima no Mizu Monogatari is a Japanese anime biographical film directed by Noboru Ishiguro. The film premiered on November 15, 2008. Within Japan it was released via Joueikai and Oyako Eiga. Its tagline was "Don't Give Up on Your Dreams." The film portrays the career o ... References External links八田與一アーカイブス- Japan Society of Civil Engineers, JSCE L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yoichi Hatta
was a Japanese engineer, known for his contributions in hydraulic engineering in the Japanese-ruled Taiwan. Hatta was born in Kanazawa, Ishikawa. After graduating from Tokyo Imperial University in 1910, he joined the Seat of Governor-General of Taiwan, served as a technician of the government. He was the designer of Chianan Canal and Wusanto Reservoir. He was killed on board the transport ship Taiyō Maru, when it was torpedoed and sunk on May 8, 1942 by US submarine ''Grenadier''. In contemporary Taiwan he is honored as a deity for his contributions to irrigation. See also *Pattenrai!! ~ Minami no Shima no Mizu Monogatari is a Japanese anime biographical film directed by Noboru Ishiguro. The film premiered on November 15, 2008. Within Japan it was released via Joueikai and Oyako Eiga. Its tagline was "Don't Give Up on Your Dreams." The film portrays the career o ... References External links八田與一アーカイブス- Japan Society of Civil Engineers, JSCE Li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wusanto Reservoir
Wushantou Reservoir (), sometimes spelled Wushanto or Wusanto, is a reservoir and scenic area located in Lioujia District and Guantian District of Tainan, Taiwan. It is also referred to as Coral Lake () due to its zigzagging shoreline. The reservoir was designed by engineer Yoichi Hatta and was the largest in Asia at the time of its completion in 1930. Overview Construction of the Wusanto Reservoir began in 1920 and was completed in 1930. The goal of the project was to provide irrigation for over 100-thousand hectares of farmland in the Chianan area. After construction of the reservoir, the irrigation plain became an important producer of rice for consumption in Taiwan and Japan, with three rice harvests possible each year. Engineering The reservoir was built in conjunction with the Chianan Irrigation, Chianan Canal, also designed by Hatta. At the time of its completion, Wusanto Reservoir was the largest reservoir in Asia and the third largest in the world. Construction of the re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People From Kanazawa, Ishikawa
A person ( : people) is a being that has certain capacities or attributes such as reason, morality, consciousness or self-consciousness, and being a part of a culturally established form of social relations such as kinship, ownership of property, or legal responsibility. The defining features of personhood and, consequently, what makes a person count as a person, differ widely among cultures and contexts. In addition to the question of personhood, of what makes a being count as a person to begin with, there are further questions about personal identity and self: both about what makes any particular person that particular person instead of another, and about what makes a person at one time the same person as they were or will be at another time despite any intervening changes. The plural form "people" is often used to refer to an entire nation or ethnic group (as in "a people"), and this was the original meaning of the word; it subsequently acquired its use as a plural form of per ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1942 Deaths
Year 194 ( CXCIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Septimius and Septimius (or, less frequently, year 947 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 194 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * Emperor Septimius Severus and Decimus Clodius Septimius Albinus Caesar become Roman Consuls. * Battle of Issus: Septimius Severus marches with his army (12 legions) to Cilicia, and defeats Pescennius Niger, Roman governor of Syria. Pescennius retreats to Antioch, and is executed by Severus' troops. * Septimius Severus besieges Byzantium (194–196); the city walls suffer extensive damage. Asia * Battle of Yan Province: Warlords Cao Cao and Lü Bu fight for control over Yan Province; the battle lasts for over 100 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1886 Births
Events January–March * January 1 – Upper Burma is formally annexed to British Burma, following its conquest in the Third Anglo-Burmese War of November 1885. * January 5– 9 – Robert Louis Stevenson's novella ''Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde'' is published in New York and London. * January 16 – A resolution is passed in the German Parliament to condemn the Prussian deportations, the politically motivated mass expulsion of ethnic Poles and Jews from Prussia, initiated by Otto von Bismarck. * January 18 – Modern field hockey is born with the formation of The Hockey Association in England. * January 29 – Karl Benz patents the first successful gasoline-driven automobile, the Benz Patent-Motorwagen (built in 1885). * February 6– 9 – Seattle riot of 1886: Anti-Chinese sentiments result in riots in Seattle, Washington. * February 8 – The West End Riots following a popular meeting in Trafalgar Square, London. * F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pattenrai!! ~ Minami No Shima No Mizu Monogatari
is a Japanese anime biographical film directed by Noboru Ishiguro. The film premiered on November 15, 2008. Within Japan it was released via Joueikai and Oyako Eiga. Its tagline was "Don't Give Up on Your Dreams." The film portrays the career of Yoichi Hatta, a civil engineer active in Japanese Taiwan, and his interactions with the native Taiwanese. It was financed as a commemoration of the 115th anniversary of the ''Hokkoku Shimbun'', a newspaper in Hatta's hometown of Kanazawa, and produced by Mushi Productions. Preview screenings were held on November 11, 2008 at Hokkoku Shimbun's Akabane Hall and on November 20 at Meiji Yasuda Life Hall (MY Shinjuku Building), while the first public screening was held on November 15 at the opening of Kanazawa's Corona Cinema World. Afterwards, it was primarily screened in schools and public institutions in Ishikawa Prefecture and from May 8, 2009 in Cinemate Mini-Theater in Shinjuku. It was also released in Taiwan. The film's title is deri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USS Grenadier (SS-210)
USS ''Grenadier'' (SS-210), a , was the first ship of the United States Navy to be named for the grenadier fish, relatives of cod that are very common in bathyal and abyssal habitats. Construction and commissioning ''Grenadier''′s keel was laid down by Portsmouth Navy Yard in Kittery, Maine, in April 1940. She was launched on 29 November 1940, sponsored by Mrs. Virginia E. Anderson, wife of Rear Admiral Walter S. Anderson, Director of Naval Intelligence. ''Grenadier'' was commissioned on 1 May 1941 with Lieutenant Commander Allen R. Joyce in command. Pre-World War II service On 20 June 1941 ''Grenadier'' participated in the search for , which had failed to surface after a deep test dive, and was present two days later as memorial exercises were conducted over the spot where ''O-9'' and her crew lay. After shakedown in the Caribbean Sea, ''Grenadier'' returned to Portsmouth on 5 November for refit. Less than three weeks after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, she s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chianan Canal
Chianan Irrigation (), also known as the Kanan Irrigation System, was built to support agricultural production in the Chianan Plain of Taiwan. The name "chia-nan" was derived from two place names among its surrounding area called Chiayi County, Chiayi and Tainan. Although it includes some other facilities, such as the Wusanto Reservoir, the term "Chianan Canal", in a narrow sense, would only mean the canals of this system. The main designer of the Chianan Canal is Yoichi Hatta, a civil engineer of the Japanese government. Its main streams pass through today's Tainan, Chiayi and Yunlin, formerly parts of Tainan Prefecture. The architectural work of canal was launched in 1920 and completed in 1930, during Taiwan under Japanese rule, Japanese rule. The canal improved the plantable area for rice from 5000 to 150,000 hectares, and made the rice crops in its irrigated area able to be harvested three times annually. See also *Economic history of Taiwan *Peikang River *Tsengwen River ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Governor-General Of Taiwan
The governor-general of Taiwan ( ja, 臺灣總督, Taiwan Sōtoku) was the head of the Government-General of Taiwan in the Japanese era (including Formosa and the Pescadores) when they were part of the Empire of Japan, from 1895 to 1945. The Japanese governors-general were members of the Diet, civilian officials, Japanese nobles or generals. They exercised their power on behalf of the sovereign of Taiwan (the emperor of Japan) until the dissolution of the empire when the dominion came under administration of the Republic of China and was renounced by Japan. Governors-general Timeline See also * Governor of Formosa * Governor of Taiwan Province * Japanese Governor-General of Korea ** List of Japanese governors-general of Korea * History of Taiwan * Japanese Resident-General of Korea ** List of Japanese residents-general of Korea * List of rulers of Taiwan * Political divisions of Taiwan (1895–1945) * Railway Department of the Office of the Governor-General of Taiwan * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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