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Tōgyū
, also known as ''ushi-zumo'' or bull sumo, is bull wrestling as it is called in Japan. It used to be a traditional annual or seasonal sport by the proud owners of the farming bulls, but it is now held as a spectator sport in various places, such as the prefectures of Iwate Prefecture, Iwate, Kagoshima, Japan, Kagoshima (Amami Islands), Niigata Prefecture, Niigata, Okinawa, Japan, Okinawa and Shimane Prefecture, Shimane (Oki Islands). Although sometimes known to Westerners as "Okinawan bullfighting", it is drastically different from Spanish-style bullfighting, the Spanish or Portuguese-style bullfighting, Portuguese style of bullfighting where the matches are between a bull and a human, with blood being spilt. ''Tōgyū'' has more in common with northern Portugal's sport of ''chegas'' and the Swiss sport of cow fighting. During matches, the bulls lock horns and attempt to force each other to give up ground. Each bull has a coach who helps to keep the bulls locked in conflict a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bull Wrestling
Bull wrestling, cow fighting or bull fighting is a non-lethal human-facilitated bloodsport between bulls or cows found in some parts of the world. Africa The Luhya people, Luhya community in Kenya practices a bull-on-bull sport. Savika is a bull-wrestling sport practiced in Madagascar's Central Highlands (Madagascar), central highlands. Europe ''Korida'', from ''corrida'', or ''borbe bikova'' ("fights of bulls") is a traditional national sport of both Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia. Bosnia and Herzegovina In Bosnia and Herzegovina, the fights are most popular in Bosanska Krajina, where the famous ''Corrida of Grmeč'' (''Grmečka korida'') is held. Grmeč, a mountain in the extreme west of Bosnia, is the best-known site of ''Korida of Grmeč'' bullfights in the Balkans. These are fights between bulls themselves and there is no death of a bull. The fight is won when the losing bull turns his back and flee from the fight. Fights happen in an empty field, and have been o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cow Fighting
Combat de Reines or Swiss Cow fighting (; ) is a traditional event held mostly in the Switzerland, Swiss canton of Valais, in which a cow fights another cow (unlike bullfighting, in which humans fight bulls, often to the death). Each year, the Cantons of Switzerland, Swiss canton of Valais hosts a series of cow fights known as ''combats de reines'' ("queen fights"), which began in the 1920s and has drawn as many as 50,000 spectators in a year. The winner is called ''La Reine des Reines'' ("the queen of queens") and increases dramatically in value. At the end of the year, a grand final is held in Aproz, where the six best from seven districts do battle in six weight categories. Cows naturally fight to determine dominance in the herd, and this is the behaviour that is exploited in cow fighting, using cows from the local Hérens (cattle), Hérens breed. With their Horn (anatomy), horns blunted, the fights are mainly a pushing contest. Any cow that backs down from a fight is eliminate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tokunoshima
, also known in English as is an island in the Amami archipelago of the southern Satsunan Islands of Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan. The island, in area, has a population of approximately 27,000. The island is divided into three administrative towns: Tokunoshima, Isen, and Amagi. The largest population center on the island is the town of Kametsu, located along the eastern shore of the island within the administrative town of Tokunoshima. Much of the island is within the borders of Amami Guntō National Park. The island is known for having the highest fertility rate in Japan (2.25 between 2018 and 2022) as well as a significant population of supercentenarians (people living significantly beyond the age of 100). Geography Tokunoshima is the second largest island in the Amami islands, after Amami Ōshima, and the 15th largest island in Japan. It is more generally included within the Satsunan and Ryukyu archipelagos. Isolated from the other Amami islands, Tokunoshima is locate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cow Fighting
Combat de Reines or Swiss Cow fighting (; ) is a traditional event held mostly in the Switzerland, Swiss canton of Valais, in which a cow fights another cow (unlike bullfighting, in which humans fight bulls, often to the death). Each year, the Cantons of Switzerland, Swiss canton of Valais hosts a series of cow fights known as ''combats de reines'' ("queen fights"), which began in the 1920s and has drawn as many as 50,000 spectators in a year. The winner is called ''La Reine des Reines'' ("the queen of queens") and increases dramatically in value. At the end of the year, a grand final is held in Aproz, where the six best from seven districts do battle in six weight categories. Cows naturally fight to determine dominance in the herd, and this is the behaviour that is exploited in cow fighting, using cows from the local Hérens (cattle), Hérens breed. With their Horn (anatomy), horns blunted, the fights are mainly a pushing contest. Any cow that backs down from a fight is eliminate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bulls Ishikawa, Okinawa 2007
Bulls may refer to: *The plural of bull, an adult male bovine *Bulls, New Zealand, a small town in the Rangitikei District Sports *Bucking bull, used in the sport of bull riding *Bulls (rugby union), a South African rugby union franchise operated by the Blue Bulls * Bulls (X-League), an American football team in Asaka, Saitama, Japan * Belfast Bulls, a former American football team in Northern Ireland *Belleville Bulls, a junior ice hockey team in Ontario, Canada *Birmingham Bulls (American football), an American football team in the UK *Birmingham Bulls (ECHL), a defunct American ice hockey team from the East Coast Hockey League *Birmingham Bulls (WHA), a defunct American ice hockey team from the World Hockey Association and Central Hockey League * Birmingham Bulldogs or Birmingham Bulls, a British rugby league team *Bradford Bulls, a rugby league club in Bradford, England *Buffalo Bulls, the sports teams of the University at Buffalo *Buffalo Bulls football, college football team f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shōwa Period
Shōwa most commonly refers to: * Hirohito (1901–1989), the 124th Emperor of Japan, known posthumously as Emperor Shōwa ** Shōwa era (昭和), the era of Hirohito from 1926 to 1989 * Showa Corporation, a Japanese suspension and shock manufacturer, affiliated with the Honda keiretsu Shōwa may also refer to: Japanese eras * Jōwa (Heian period) (承和), alternatively read as Shōwa, from 834 to 848 * Shōwa (Kamakura period) (正和), from 1312 to 1317 Japanese places * Shōwa, Akita, a former town in Akita Prefecture * Shōwa, Yamanashi, a town in Yamanashi Prefecture * Shōwa, a former town in Tokyo, now part of Akishima, Tokyo * Shōwa-ku, a ward of Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture * Shōwa, Fukushima, a village in Fukushima Prefecture * Shōwa, Gunma, a village in Gunma Prefecture * Shōwa, Saitama, a dissolved town in Saitama Prefecture * Showa Station (Antarctica), a Japanese research station located in Antarctica * Shōwa Station (Kanagawa), a Japanese railway station in Kana ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sport In Japan
Sports in Japan are a significant part of Japanese culture. Traditional games of Japan, Traditional sports, such as sumo and martial arts, as well as Western sports, Western imports like baseball, association football, basketball and tennis are popular with both participants and spectators. Sumo is considered Japan's national sport. Baseball was introduced to the country by visiting Americans in the 19th century. The Nippon Professional Baseball league has been Japan's largest professional sports competition in terms of television ratings and spectators. Martial arts such as judo, karate and kendo, modern kendō are also widely practiced and enjoyed by spectators in the country. Association football has gained wide popularity since the founding of the J. League Division 1, Japan Professional Football League in 1992. Other popular sports include figure skating, rugby union, golf, table tennis and racing, especially auto racing. Some new sports were invented by changing elements o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ryukyuan Culture
Ryukyuan culture (琉球の文化, ''Ryūkyū no bunka'') are the cultural elements of the indigenous Ryukyuan people, an ethnic group native to Okinawa Prefecture and parts of Kagoshima Prefecture in southwestern Japan. The cultural elements of the Ryukyuans are far from a unified entity, with different islands having their own distinct subculture and practices. Furthermore, the inhabitants of the Tokara and Ōsumi Islands are of Yamato Japanese descent, akin to the inhabitants of mainland Japan. Music There are many styles of music exclusive to the Ryukyu Islands. The most popular one is arguably the genre of eisa from the Okinawa Islands. It typically incorporates dancing, taiko drums and the three-stringed sanshin (Okinawan shamisen). In the Amami Islands of Kagoshima, a musical style known as shima-uta has gained recent popularity in mainland Japan as a result of its usage by contemporary singers. Besides eisa and shima-uta, there are many more traditional styles of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tourist Attractions In Okinawa Prefecture
Tourism is travel for pleasure, and the Commerce, commercial activity of providing and supporting such travel. World Tourism Organization, UN Tourism defines tourism more generally, in terms which go "beyond the common perception of tourism as being limited to holiday activity only", as people "travelling to and staying in places outside their usual environment for not more than one consecutive year for leisure and not less than 24 hours, business and other purposes". Tourism can be Domestic tourism, domestic (within the traveller's own country) or International tourism, international. International tourism has both incoming and outgoing implications on a country's balance of payments. Between the second half of 2008 and the end of 2009, tourism numbers declined due to a severe Economy, economic slowdown (see Great Recession) and the outbreak of the 2009 2009 flu pandemic, H1N1 influenza virus. These numbers, however, recovered until the COVID-19 pandemic put an abrupt end to th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cattle
Cattle (''Bos taurus'') are large, domesticated, bovid ungulates widely kept as livestock. They are prominent modern members of the subfamily Bovinae and the most widespread species of the genus '' Bos''. Mature female cattle are called cows and mature male cattle are bulls. Young female cattle are called heifers, young male cattle are oxen or bullocks, and castrated male cattle are known as steers. Cattle are commonly raised for meat, for dairy products, and for leather. As draft animals, they pull carts and farm implements. Cattle are considered sacred animals within Hinduism, and it is illegal to kill them in some Indian states. Small breeds such as the miniature Zebu are kept as pets. Taurine cattle are widely distributed across Europe and temperate areas of Asia, the Americas, and Australia. Zebus are found mainly in India and tropical areas of Asia, America, and Australia. Sanga cattle are found primarily in sub-Saharan Africa. These types, sometime ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Animal Rights
Animal rights is the philosophy according to which many or all Animal consciousness, sentient animals have Moral patienthood, moral worth independent of their Utilitarianism, utility to humans, and that their most basic interests—such as avoiding suffering—should be afforded the same consideration as similar interests of human beings. The argument from marginal cases is often used to reach this conclusion. This argument holds that if marginal human beings such as infants, senile people, and the Cognition, cognitively disabled are granted moral status and negative rights, then nonhuman animals must be granted the same moral consideration, since animals do not lack any known morally relevant characteristic that marginal-case humans have. Broadly speaking, and particularly in popular discourse, the term "animal rights" is often used synonymously with "animal protection" or "animal liberation". More narrowly, "animal rights" refers to the idea that many animals have fundamen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
