Tobata Ward
Tobata may refer to: * 46596 Tobata, a main-belt minor planet * Seiichi Tobata, a Japanese professor of agriculture * Tobata-ku, Kitakyūshū, a ward in Fukuoka, Japan * Tobata Station is a railway station on the Kagoshima Main Line operated by JR Kyushu in Tobata-ku, Kitakyushu, Japan. History The privately run Kyushu Railway had begun laying down its network on Kyushu in 1889 and by November 1896 had a stretch of track fro ...

Seiichi Tobata
was a Japanese professor of agriculture, and a pioneer of agricultural economics. Seiichi Tobata was awarded the 1968 Ramon Magsaysay Award The Ramon Magsaysay Award (Filipino: ''Gawad Ramon Magsaysay'') is an annual award established to perpetuate former Philippine President Ramon Magsaysay's example of integrity in governance, courageous service to the people, and pragmatic idealis ... for Public Service,"The 1968 Ramon Magsaysay Award for Public Service – CITATION for Seiichi Tobata"
(Retrieved on February 10, 2008) for his contributions to modernization of Japanese agriculture. He was also awarded the Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun (1975) and the Order of Culture (1980).

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Tobata-ku, Kitakyūshū
is a ward of Kitakyūshū, Fukuoka, Japan. It is the smallest ward of Kitakyūshū city at 16.66 km². The population was 64,330 as of the national census in 2000. History and Geography In 1899 Tobata-cho (Tobata town) was created, and in 1924 Tobata-shi (Tobata city). The city was merged into Kitakyushu in 1963. Officially Tobata became a ward of Kitakyushu on April 1, 1963. Part of Tobata ward faces the sea inlet or firth (Scottish English) called Dokai wan, and the surrounding outer sea is called Hibiki nada. The red-painted bridge between Tobata and Wakamatsu wards is called the Waka-To Ohashi (Great Bridge of Waka-To) and was the first suspension bridge in Asia, completed in 1963. On September 30, 2005 it passed into the control of Kitakyushu city. A new tunnel was constructed in 2005-8 between Tobata and Wakamatsu wards to link the Hibiki container terminal with Kokura. Much of this ward, especially the part facing the open sea, is taken up by the Nippon Steel ...
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