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Kasai Region
Kasai or Kasaï may refer to: Places Congo * Congo-Kasaï, one of the four large provinces of Belgian Congo * Kasaï District, in the Kasai-Occidental province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo * Kasai Province, one of the provinces of the Congo * Kasaï region in the center of Congo Japan * Kasai District, Hokkaido, a district of Hokkaido Prefecture, Japan * Kasai Rinkai Park, in Edogawa, Tokyo * Kasai Station, in the Kasai section of Edogawa, Tokyo, Japan * Kasai, Hyōgo is a city in Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan Other uses * Kangsabati River, or Kasai River in India * Kasai procedure, a pediatric surgery commonly for biliary atresia * Kasai (surname), a Japanese surname, lit. meaning "fire" Congo * Air Kasaï, an airline in Barumbu, Kinshasa, Congo * Compagnie du Kasai, a concession company of the Congo * Kasai Allstars, a 25-piece musical collective based in Kinshasa, Congo * Kasai River disaster, a passenger ferry capsized in Congo * Kasai River, in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Congo-Kasaï
Congo-Kasaï was one of the four large provinces of the Belgian Congo defined in 1914. It was formally established in 1919, and in 1933 was divided into the new provinces of Léopoldville and Lusambo. Location Congo-Kasaï was named after the Kasai River, a major left tributary of the Congo River that provides access to the region. By 1910 a factory of the Kasai Company had been established near Misumba, which had about two thousand inhabitants. The company had made successful trial rubber plantations. The company also bought rubber and ivory from the local people, some of whom used it to buy liquor from the Portuguese territory (Angola). Congo-Kasaï had five districts: the urban district of Léopoldville, capital of the colony, and the districts (from west to east) of Bas-Congo, Kwango, Kasaï and Sankuru. The ''Huileries du Congo Belge'' company had two zones (or circles) of exploitation in the province based on Brabanta and Leverville, of which Leverville was th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Kasai Procedure
A hepatoportoenterostomy or Kasai portoenterostomy is a surgical treatment performed on infants with Type IVb choledochal cyst and biliary atresia to allow for bile drainage. In these infants, the bile is not able to drain normally from the small bile ducts within the liver into the larger bile ducts that connect to the gall bladder and small intestine. Procedure The surgery involves exposing the porta hepatis (the area of the liver from which bile should drain) by radical excision of all bile duct tissue up to the liver capsule and attaching a Roux-en-Y loop of jejunum to the exposed liver capsule above the bifurcation of the portal vein creating a portoenterostomy. The rationale for this approach is that minute residual bile duct remnants may be present in the fibrous tissue of the porta hepatis and thus provide direct connection with the intrahepatic ductule system to allow bile drainage. This procedure was developed in 1951 by Japanese biliary and hepatic pediatric surgeon Mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Kasai River
The Kasai River ( ; called Cassai in Angola) is a tributary (left side) of the Congo River, located in Central Africa. The river begins in central Angola and flows to the east until it reaches the border between Angola and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where it turns north and serves as the border until it flows into the DRC. From Ilebo, between the confluences with Lulua river and Sankuru river, the Kasai river turns to a westerly direction. The lower stretch of the river from the confluence with Fimi river, is known as the Kwa(h) River, before it joins the Congo at Kwamouth northeast of Kinshasa. The Kasai basin consists mainly of equatorial rainforest areas, which provide an agricultural land in a region noted for its infertile, sandy soil. It is a tributary of Congo river and diamonds are found in it. Around 60% of diamonds in Belgium go from Kasai river for cutting and shaping. Exploration Henry Morton Stanley reached the confluence on 9 March 1877, calling the ri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Kasai River Disaster
On 29 July 2010, an overloaded passenger ferry capsized on the Kasai River in Bandundu province, east of Kinshasa, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. At least 80 people were confirmed to have died, with other accounts putting this figure closer to 140. Background Owing to the country's lack of roads outside major cities, ferries and river transport are a major component of transport in the DRC. The country, which is comparable in size to the whole of Western Europe, has just a few hundred kilometres of paved roads outside the cities. The disaster occurred on the Kasai River, a tributary of the Congo River, in the western Bandundu province, east of the capital, Kinshasa. The boat was travelling to Kinshasa from the town of Mushie in Bandundu's western Plateaux district, which is from the city of Bandundu, the capital of that province. The government stated that boat owners in the DRC were frequently negligent and that adherence to insurance rules and maintenance schedu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Kasai Allstars
Kasai Allstars are a 25-piece musical collective based in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo. The musicians originally come from the Kasai region, but originating from five different ethnic groups: the Songye, Lulua, Tetela, Luba, and Luntu. Some of these groups have endured conflicting relationships over the centuries, and they each have their own culture, their own language, and their own musical traditions. These were always thought to be incompatible until the musicians decided to pool their resources and form a collective at the instigation of Belgian producer Vincent Kenis. Career In 2008, Kasai Allstars released an album on Crammed Discs entitled ''In the 7th Moon, the Chief Turned Into a Swimming Fish and Ate the Head of His Enemy by Magic''. It was the third release in the label's Congotronics series. The album was well received by Western music critics. In 2010, Crammed Discs released ''Tradi-Mods vs. Rockers: Alternative Takes on Congotronics'', a multi-art ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Compagnie Du Kasai
The Compagnie du Kasai (Kasai Company) was a Belgian company established to exploit the resources of the Kasai River basin in the Congo Free State. At first it was mainly involved in harvesting wild rubber, but later moved into palm oil and mining. Background The German Wissman explored the Kasai River in 1884 and established a short-lived commercial establishment there. The Sandford Exploring Expedition started commercial operations on the river and founded the Luebo post in 1887, then in 1888 merged with SAB. In 1890 Le Marinal created Lusambo. The Société Hollandaise arrived in the region in 1890, and for six years SAB and the Société Hollandaise were the only traders in the region. In 1892 rules were established for harvesting rubber, and new companies began to move into the Kasai basin: *La société des Produits végétaux du Haut Kasai (1894) *Compagnie Anversoise des Plantations de la Lubefu (1897) *Société de la Djuma et La Kasaienne (1897) *La Loanje (1898) *Soc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Air Kasaï
Air Kasaï is an airline with its head office on the property of N'Dolo Airport in Barumbu, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo. It operates charter services within Africa. Its main base is N'Dolo Airport, Kinshasa. The airline is banned from operating in the European Union. History The airline was established in 1983 and was formerly known as Transport Aérien Congo (TAC) and Transport Aérien Zaïrois (TAZ). It is a Swedish owned company. In March 2006, Air Kasaï was officially banned from operating in the whole EU, plus Norway and Switzerland. Destinations Air Kasaï serves the following destinations (as of April 2012): Fleet The Air Kasaï fleet consists of the following aircraft (as of April 2014): Media In March 2014, Air Kasaï was featured in the '' Vice News'' episode "Russian Pilots of the Congo". Incidents and accidents * On 9 September 2005, an Air Kasaï Antonov An-26B crashed in the Republic of the Congo 50 kilometers (31 miles) north of Br ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Kasai (surname)
Kasai (written: 河西, 葛西 or 笠井) is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Akira Kasai (born 1952), Japanese politician *, Japanese ice hockey player * Jun Kasai (born 1974), Japanese professional wrestler * Ken'ichi Kasai, (born 1970), Japanese anime director *Kenji Kasai, Japanese table tennis player * Kenta Kasai (born 1985), Japanese football player * Kimiko Kasai (born 1945), retired Japanese jazz singer *Masae Kasai (1933–2013), former Japanese volleyball player * Morio Kasai (1922-2008), Japanese surgeon * Noriaki Kasai (born 1972), Japanese ski jumper * Tomomi Kasai (born 1991), Japanese singer, actress and a former member of the idol group AKB48 * Yoshiko Yoshiizumi née Kasai (born 1980), Japanese ski jumper See also *Kasai clan was a Japanese clan in Mutsu Province was an old province of Japan in the area of Fukushima, Miyagi, Iwate and Aomori Prefectures and the municipalities of Kazuno and Kosaka in Akita Prefecture. Mutsu P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Kangsabati River
Kangsabati River (Pron:) (also variously known as the Kãsai and Cossye) rises from the Chota Nagpur plateau in the state of West Bengal, India and passes through the districts of Purulia, Bankura, Paschim Medinipur and Purba Medinipur in West Bengal before draining in the Bay of Bengal. Course The river's headwaters are on the Chota Nagpur Plateau in Purulia district, near the city of Jhalda, where the smaller rivers Saharjhor and Girgiri join together. From there, it passes through Bankura district, passing the towns of Purulia, Khatra and Ranibandh. At Binpur it is joined by the Bhairabbanki, and at Keshpur the river splits into two. The northern branch flows through the Daspur area, where it is known as the Palarpai. This branch eventually flows into the Rupnarayan River. The other branch, still called the Kangsabati, flows in a south-easterly direction. Eventually, it meets the Keleghai River, and the junction of the two forms the Haldi River, which flows into t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Kasaï District
Kasai District (french: District du Kasai, nl, District Kasai) was a district of the Congo Free State, Belgian Congo and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, named after the Kasai River. It was formed around 1885 and went through several large changes in extent in the years that followed. The 1933 version of the district roughly corresponded to the former Kasai-Occidental province and the present Kasaï and Kasaï-Central provinces. Congo Free State A decree of 3 September 1886 by the Congo Free State administrator general Camille Janssen defined nine districts in the colony, each headed by a district commissioner, including Lubuku-Kassaï District. Article 3 of the decree of 16 April 1887 provided for the Congo Free State to be divided into administrative districts headed by district commissioners, assisted by one or more deputies. The decree of 1 August 1888 divided the Congo Free State into eleven districts, in including the Kasai District with headquarters at Luluabou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Kasai, Hyōgo
is a city located in Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 42,494 in 18242 households and a population density of 72 persons per km². The total area of the city is . Geography Kasai is located almost in the center of the Harima Plain, with forests in the north and low mountains in the south. The city measures approximately 12.4 kilometers east-west, and 19.8 kilometers north-south. The main rivers that flow here are the Manganji River, which is one of the tributaries of the Kako River, and the Fukkoji River, which is a tributary of the Manganji River. Neighbouring municipalities Hyōgo Prefecture * Himeji * Kakogawa * Ono * Nishiwaki * Katō * Taka * Ichikawa * Fukusaki Climate Kasai has a Humid subtropical climate (Köppen ''Cfa'') characterized by warm summers and cool winters with light to no snowfall. The average annual temperature in Kasai is 14.9 °C. The average annual rainfall is 1606 mm with September as the wettest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Kasai Station
is a railway station on the Tokyo Metro Tozai Line in Edogawa, Tokyo, Japan, operated by the Tokyo subway operator Tokyo Metro. Lines Kasai Station is served by the Tokyo Metro Tozai Line, and is numbered T-17. Station layout The station consists of two elevated side platforms. The station also has two center express tracks used for rapid service trains to bypass local trains at this station. Platforms File:Tokyo Metro Kasai sta 003.jpg, Platforms History The station opened on 29 March 1969. The station facilities were inherited by Tokyo Metro The is a major rapid transit system in Tokyo, Japan, operated by the Tokyo Metro Co. With an average daily ridership of 6.84 million passengers, the Tokyo Metro is the larger of the two subway operators in the city; the other being the Toe ... after the privatization of the Teito Rapid Transit Authority (TRTA) in 2004. Surrounding area The station has the world's largest fully automated parking lot for bicycles where ab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |