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Kawabata Yasunari Prize

The Kawabata Yasunari Prize (川端康成文学賞) is a Japanese literary award for the most accomplished short story of the year, financed by Kawabata's 1968 Nobel Prize money.

Kawabe Gun (河辺郡, Kawabe District) was a rural district in Dewa Province, Akita Prefecture, Japan, first recorded in 843; its towns Kawabe and Yūwa merged into Akita City on 11 January 2005, abolishing the district.

Kawabe Torashirō

Kawabe Torashirō (河辺虎四郎, 1890–1960) was a Japanese lieutenant general who was the last Vice Chief of the Army General Staff, serving at Japan's surrender in 1945.

Sep 24, 2026

Kawachi dynasty

The Kawachi dynasty (河内王朝) is a scholarly term for the fifth- and sixth-century Japanese kingship centered in Kawachi on the Osaka plain, beginning with Emperor Keitai.

Kawada Nextage

Kawada Nextage, announced in 2009, is a dual-arm industrial humanoid robot by Kawada Robotics of Tokyo designed for fenceless work alongside humans on assembly, inspection, and packaging lines.

Kawagebo

Kawagebo (Kawagarbo, 卡瓦格博, Tibetan ཁ་བ་དཀར་པོ) is the 6,740 m highest peak of Yunnan's Meili Snow Mountains. Never climbed; a 1991 avalanche killed 17 climbers, and local law has banned mountaineering since 2001.

Kawagoe

Kawagoe (川越市, Koedo, "Little Edo") is a city of about 350,000 in western Saitama Prefecture, 30 km from Tokyo, known for its kurazukuri warehouse district, Toki no Kane bell tower, Kitain Temple, and UNESCO-listed October festival.

Kawagoe LNG Terminal

Kawagoe LNG Terminal is an LNG import terminal at Kawagoe in Mie Prefecture, Japan, operating since 1997 under JERA with a send-out capacity of 8.7 million tonnes per year.

Kawagoe thermal power station

Kawagoe thermal power station (川越火力発電所) is an LNG-fired power station in Kawagoe-cho, Mie Prefecture, Japan. Built by Chubu Electric, it has a total output of 4,802 MW.

Kawaguchi, Saitama

Kawaguchi (川口市) is a city in southern Saitama Prefecture, Japan, bordering Tokyo across the Arakawa River; population 610,041 (2026), a former foundry town and core city since 2018.

Kawai Kanjirō

Kawai Kanjirō (河井寬次郎, 1890–1966) was a Japanese potter who co-founded the Mingei folk craft movement with Yanagi Sōetsu and Hamada Shōji, working from a Kyoto studio.

Kawai Thermal Power Project

The Kawai Thermal Power Project is a 1,320 MW coal-fired power station operated by Adani Power Rajasthan Limited at Kawai in Baran District, Rajasthan, India.

Kawaii

Kawaii (かわいい, 可愛い), Japanese for cute or adorable, is a Japanese aesthetic of cuteness born in 1970s schoolgirl subculture, spread globally as "Pink Globalization" through Hello Kitty, anime, and mascots, and studied as both emotion and social value.

Sep 19, 2026

Kawaii metal

Kawaii metal is a Japanese music genre fusing heavy metal with idol pop, pairing cute aesthetics with metal aggression; Babymetal, formed in 2010, is its flagship act.

Kawaikute Gomen (可愛くてごめん)

Kawaikute Gomen (可愛くてごめん, "Sorry for Being So Cute") is a 2022 HoneyWorks character song for Chuutan (Chizuru Nakamura), sung by Saori Hayami, that became a six-week Billboard Japan TikTok chart number one and won a 2024 JASRAC silver prize.

Kawakami Gensai (河上彦斎)

Kawakami Gensai (河上彦斎), 1834–1872, Kumamoto domain samurai and sonnō jōi activist known as Hitokiri Gensai; securely attested only for the 1864 assassination of Sakuma Shozan in Kyoto, executed in the early Meiji years and the model for Rurouni Kenshin's Himura Kenshin.

Sep 24, 2026

Kawakami Sōroku

Kawakami Sōroku (川上操六) was a Japanese army officer from Satsuma who rose to general and Chief of the Army General Staff, directing operations in the Sino-Japanese War of 1894–95.

Kawaki (カワキ)

Kawaki (カワキ) is a character from Boruto: Naruto Next Generations and Boruto: Two Blue Vortex, a Kara-made Karma vessel sold to Jigen as a child, adopted by Naruto, and Boruto's rival after Eida's Omnipotence swaps their identities.

Kawanabe Kyōsai

Kawanabe Kyōsai (河鍋暁斎, 1831–1889) was a Japanese painter and printmaker who trained in both the ukiyo-e and Kano-school traditions and became celebrated for satirical, comic, and ghost paintings.

Sep 19, 2026

Kawanaka Miyuki

Kawanaka Miyuki (川中美幸), real name Yamada Kimiko, is a Japanese enka singer born in 1955 in Osaka, known for the million-selling hits Futari-zake (1980) and Nirinsō (1998) and 24 Kohaku appearances.

Kawanishi N1K

The Kawanishi N1K, known as the Shiden and Shiden Kai, was an Imperial Japanese Navy fighter of World War II, codenamed George by the Allies.

Oct 20, 2026

Kawarani

Kawarani (卡瓦洛日, ཁ་བ་ལུང་རི, Kawaluo Ri) is a sacred twin-summit peak, 5,992 m and 5,928 m, in the Gongkala Mountains of Ganzi, Sichuan, China; first climbed in 2014 by Marcos Costa and Bruce Normand after years of access blocks by local monks.

Kawasaki C-2

The Kawasaki C-2 is a twin-engine jet military transport built by Kawasaki Heavy Industries for the Japan Air Self-Defense Force as the successor to the C-1.

Kawasaki disease

Kawasaki disease (Kawasaki syndrome), an acute childhood vasculitis first described by Tomisaku Kawasaki in 1967, mostly affects children under 5, causes coronary aneurysms, and is treated with IVIG plus aspirin; cause unknown.

Kawasaki Frontale (川崎フロンターレ)

Kawasaki Frontale (川崎フロンターレ), J1 League football club from Kawasaki City, Japan; former Fujitsu company team founded 1955, professionalized 1996. Four J1 titles (2017, 2018, 2020, 2021), home at Todoroki Stadium.

Kawasaki Heavy Industries (川崎重工業)

Kawasaki Heavy Industries (川崎重工業), also known as the Kawasaki Group, is a Japanese heavy-industry corporation in Kobe and Tokyo, founded from a shipyard opened by Shozo Kawasaki in 1878.

Kawasaki Heavy Industries C151

The Kawasaki Heavy Industries C151 was Singapore's first-generation MRT train, a fleet of 66 six-car trains built in Japan that served from 1987 until 2025.

Kawasaki Ki-100

The Kawasaki Ki-100, or Army Type 5 Fighter, was a single-seat Imperial Japanese Army fighter of 1945, created by fitting a Mitsubishi radial into Ki-61 Hien airframes.