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Kosei Inoue

Kosei Inoue (井上康生), born 1978 in Miyakonojo, Japan, is a judoka who won Olympic gold at Sydney 2000 and three world titles, later Japan head coach and IJF Sport Director.

Koseki (戸籍), Japan's family register: a household-based public record certifying Japanese nationality and kinship from birth to death, administered by municipalities, with 1871 origins, 2008 access restrictions, and 2025 furigana recording.

Kösem Sultan (كوسم سلطان)

Kösem Sultan (كوسم سلطان), also Mahpeyker, c. 1589–1651, Ottoman haseki of Ahmed I and valide sultan under Murad IV, Ibrahim and Mehmed IV; regent, patron of the Çinili Mosque, strangled in 1651.

Koševo City Stadium

Koševo City Stadium (Olimpijski stadion Asim Ferhatović Hase), Sarajevo's largest stadium, built 1947, rebuilt 1981, hosted the 1984 Winter Olympics opening ceremony; home of FK Sarajevo, now awaiting UEFA category 4 reconstruction.

Sep 24, 2026

Koshamain

Koshamain (コシャマイン) was an Ainu chieftain of the eastern Oshima Peninsula in Ezo (Hokkaido) who led a large Ainu uprising against Japanese settlers in 1457.

Koshamain's War

Koshamain's War (Koshamain no tatakai) was a 1457 war in southern Hokkaido between the Ainu chieftain Koshamain and Japanese settlers, the first large-scale conflict between them.

Oct 20, 2026

Koshava

Koshava (Кошава) is a village in Vidin Province, northwestern Bulgaria, on the Danube, site of the destroyed Roman fort and harbour Ad Malum (Ad Marum); a South Shetland island is named after it.

Kosher animals

Kosher animals are the species that Jewish dietary law (kashrut) permits for food: land animals with split hooves that chew the cud, fish with fins and scales, and birds known by tradition.

Kosher foods

Kosher foods, or kashrut, are foods permitted under Jewish dietary law from Leviticus 11 and Deuteronomy 14: no pork or shellfish, shechitah slaughter, no meat with dairy, and rabbinic certification such as the OU hechsher.

Kosher restaurant

Kosher restaurant: a food-service establishment certified as compliant with kashrut by a rabbinic agency or Israel's Chief Rabbinate, run under a mashgiach's supervision; distinguished from uncertified kosher-style venues and from certifying agencies such as OU, OK, Star-K, and Kof-K.

Kosher salt

Kosher salt, better called koshering salt, is a coarse-grained salt used to draw blood from meat in kashering; its large crystals and lack of iodine made it the default salt of American chefs and recipe developers.

Kosher wine

Kosher wine is wine made under Jewish dietary law: Sabbath-observant Jews must handle production from crushing to bottling, and yayin mevushal (flash-pasteurized cooked wine) keeps kosher status even when handled by non-Jews.

Oct 20, 2026

Koshi

Koshi (कोशी प्रदेश), formerly Province No. 1, is Nepal's easternmost province, renamed on 1 March 2023 after the Koshi River. Capital Biratnagar; 14 districts, about 25,905 sq km, population roughly 4.5-5.0 million, containing Mount Everest.

Sep 19, 2026

Koshi Inaba

Koshi Inaba (稲葉浩志), born Hiroshi Inaba in 1964 in Tsuyama, Okayama, is a Japanese singer, lead vocalist and lyricist of the rock duo B'z, which has sold over 80 million records.

Koshien Stadium (阪神甲子園球場)

Hanshin Koshien Stadium (阪神甲子園球場), opened 1924 in Nishinomiya, Hyogo, is Japan's historic ballpark: home of the Hanshin Tigers and venue of the spring and summer national high school baseball tournaments, capacity 47,359.

Koshigaya

Koshigaya (越谷市) is a city in southeastern Saitama Prefecture, Japan, about 25 km north of central Tokyo. Population about 340,000; formed 1954, city 1958; known as 'Suigo Koshigaya' for its rivers and for the Lake Town flood-control development.

Koshikibu no Naishi

Koshikibu no Naishi (小式部内侍, died 1025) was a Japanese waka poet of the mid-Heian period and daughter of the poet Izumi Shikibu, best known for poem 60 in the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu.

Oct 3, 2026

Koshish (कोशिश)

Koshish (कोशिश, Effort) is Gulzar's 1972 Hindi romantic drama starring Sanjeev Kumar and Jaya Bhaduri as a deaf-mute couple; a response to Happiness of Us Alone (1961), it won National Awards for Best Actor and Best Screenplay.

Oct 15, 2026

Koshkonong Solar Park

Koshkonong Solar Park, formally the Koshkonong Solar Energy Center, is a 300-megawatt solar farm with 165 MW of battery storage under construction in Dane County, Wisconsin.

Kōshoku Gonin Onna

Kōshoku Gonin Onna is a 1686 collection of five amorous tales by the Japanese writer Ihara Saikaku, following townspeople women whose love affairs collide with Edo-period law.

Kōshoku Ichidai Otoko

Kōshoku Ichidai Otoko (好色一代男, The Life of an Amorous Man) is a 1682 Japanese novel by Ihara Saikaku, regarded as the founding work of the ukiyo-zōshi genre of early modern prose fiction.

Sep 24, 2026

Koshu Hatto no Shidai

Koshu Hatto no Shidai (甲州法度之次第) is the house code of the Takeda clan of Kai Province, issued by Takeda Shingen in 1547 to govern his domain.

Kosi Mound

Kosi Mound, locally called chavar, is a small ASI-protected archaeological mound near Kosi village, Mathura district, Uttar Pradesh, containing a ruined brick stupa and Kushan-to-medieval sculpture fragments, distinct from the Kosikalan town mound.

Kosī Zone

Kosī Zone (कोसी अञ्चल, Koshi Zone) was a former eastern administrative zone of Nepal, headquarters Biratnagar, with six districts including Morang and Sunsari; population 2,335,047 (2011), area 9,669 km², abolished by the 2015 constitution and now within Koshi Province.