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Sakamoto Days (サカモトデイズ)
Sakamoto Days (サカモトデイズ) is Yuto Suzuki's action comedy manga serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump since 2020, about retired legendary hitman Taro Sakamoto protecting his family; adapted into a 2025 TMS/Netflix anime and a 2026 live-action film.
Sakamoto Ryōma (坂本龍馬)
Sakamoto Ryōma (坂本龍馬, 1835–1867), Tosa lower samurai of the Bakumatsu: founded the Kameyama Shachū/Kaientai trading navy, brokered the 1866 Satsuma-Chōshū alliance, drafted the Senchu Hassaku that led to the Taisei-hōkan, and was assassinated in Kyoto in 1867.
Sakana AI
Sakana AI is a Tokyo-based AI research company founded in 2023 by former Google researchers David Ha, Llion Jones, and Ren Ito, known for nature-inspired model-merging methods.
Sakana AI evolutionary model merging
Sakana AI evolutionary model merging is a 2024 technique using evolutionary search to automatically combine existing neural network models into a new one, without gradient-based training.
Sakana AI funding
Sakana AI funding covers the Tokyo AI startup's venture rounds, from a $30 million seed in 2023 to a Series B in November 2025 valuing it near $2.6 billion.
Sakanaction
Sakanaction (サカナクション) is a five-member Japanese rock band formed in 2005 in Sapporo, fronted by Ichiro Yamaguchi, known for literary lyrics and shifting between band and club-music styles.
Sakanoue no Tamuramaro
Sakanoue no Tamuramaro (坂上田村麻呂, 758–811) was an early-Heian military commander who led the court's campaigns against the Emishi in northeastern Japan and was appointed sei-i taishōgun in 797.
Sakari Manninen
Sakari Manninen, Finnish ice hockey center (born 1992, Oulu), Olympic gold 2022 and World champion 2019 and 2022; KHL, AHL, and Genève-Servette playmaker, 170 cm.
Sakari Oramo
Sakari Oramo is a Finnish conductor, chief conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra since 2013 and previously music director of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra.
Sakari Puisto
Sakari Puisto (born 1976) is a Finnish politician of the Finns Party who has served as Minister of Economic Affairs since 2025 and has been a Member of Parliament for Pirkanmaa since 2023.
Sakartvelos Moambe
Sakartvelos Moambe (საქართველოს მოამბე, "The Georgian Herald") is the name of several Georgian periodicals, most prominently a literary journal founded in Tbilisi in 1863 by Ilia Chavchavadze.
Sakarya
Sakarya (Turkish province, center Adapazarı), named after the Sakarya River; became a province in 1954 from Kocaeli. Automotive-led economy, 1.11 million people (2025), near the North Anatolian Fault Zone.
Sakarya Türküsü
"Sakarya Türküsü" is a 1949 poem by Turkish poet Necip Fazıl Kısakürek that treats the Sakarya river as a symbol of the Turkish nation's destiny.
Sakashita Gate Incident
The Sakashita Gate Incident (坂下門外の変, Sakashitamongai no Hen) was an 1862 attack in which Mito ronin ambushed and wounded shogunate senior councillor Andō Nobumasa outside Edo Castle; he survived.
Sakata Kyodo power station
Sakata Kyodo power station (酒田共同火力) is a 700 MW coal-fired power station in Sakata, Yamagata, Japan, the largest power plant in the prefecture and owned by Tohoku Electric Power.
Sakatayana
Sakatayana (साकटायन) is an ancient Indian grammarian and etymologist, cited by Panini and Yaska, whose doctrine that all nouns are born from verbs founded Sanskrit semantic derivation.
Şakâyık-ı Nu'mâniye
Şakâyık-ı Nu'mâniye, begun in 1558 by Taşköprizâde Ahmed Efendi, is the first general biographical compilation of Ottoman scholars and Sufi shaykhs, covering about 500 figures from Osman Gazi to the author's time.
Sakçagözü
Sakçagözü, also known as Sakçe Gözü, is an archaeological mound in Gaziantep province, southeastern Turkey, occupied from the Neolithic to the Iron Age and known for a Neo-Hittite palace with basalt reliefs.
Sakçagözü steles
The Sakçagözü steles (Sakçe Gözü steles) are Neo-Hittite reliefs of the 8th century BC from Coba Höyük near Sakçagözü, Gaziantep province, southeastern Turkey, excavated by John Garstang in 1908 and 1911.
Sakdalista uprising
The Sakdalista uprising was an armed rebellion launched by the Sakdal movement in the Philippines on May 2, 1935, seizing municipal buildings in Central and Southern Luzon before suppression.
Sakdina system
The sakdina system (ระบบศักดินา) was Siam's hierarchical ranking system, in which numerical land grades defined every subject's rank and obligations, codified by King Trailok in 1454.
Sake (日本酒)
Sake (日本酒, nihonshu), legally seishu, is Japan's brewed rice beverage made from rice, koji mold, and water via multiple parallel fermentation; alcohol under 22%, GI since 2015, UNESCO heritage 2024, exports about 43 billion yen in 2024.
Sake Dean Mahomet
Sake Dean Mahomet (دین محمد) was an Indian-born soldier and writer who wrote the first English book by an Indian and opened London's first Indian restaurant.
Sake Museum Ponshu-kan
Ponshu-kan (ぽんしゅ館) is a Niigata sake museum and shop chain opened in 1995 at Echigo-Yuzawa Station, with branches at Nagaoka and Niigata stations, offering coin-operated tasting of all 89 prefectural breweries' brands (111 labels) and sake baths, bomb onigiri, and local foods.
Saken Seifullin
Saken Seifullin (Сәкен Сейфуллин) was a Kazakh poet and writer, regarded as a founder of modern Kazakh literature, who led the Kazakh ASSR government from 1922 to 1925.
Saker falcon
The saker falcon (Falco cherrug) is a large migratory falcon breeding from Central and Eastern Europe across Central Asian steppes to Mongolia and northern China, and is listed as Endangered.
Sakha (Саха Өрөспүүбүлүкэтэ)
Sakha (Yakutia; Саха Өрөспүүбүлүкэтэ), Russia's largest federal subject at 3,083.5 thousand km² in northeastern Siberia, a diamond-mining republic with sovereignty declared 27 September 1990 and extensive ice-rich permafrost.
Sakhalin (Сахалин)
Sakhalin (Сахалин), also Karafuto, is Russia's largest island north of Hokkaido: 948 km long, about 76,400 km², capital Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, transferred between Russia and Japan in 1875, 1905, and 1945, now the core of Sakhalin Oblast with its oil, gas, and LNG industry.
Sakhalin Energy
Sakhalin Energy (Сахалинская Энергия) is a Russian company, founded in 1994, that operates the Sakhalin-2 project off Sakhalin Island and runs Russia's first LNG plant at Prigorodnoye.
Sakhalin Gulf
Sakhalin Gulf (Sakhalinski Zaliv), a gulf of the Sea of Okhotsk between mainland Russia and the Schmidt Peninsula of northern Sakhalin Island, up to 160 km wide, ice-covered mid-November to late April, receiving most Amur River discharge.