LOCATION

Official Website:
http://www.city.kyoto.jp/koho/index_e.html

Population:
1,470,159 (2005)

SCHOOLS

School	Founded
Kyoto University	1869

COMPANY HEADQUARTERS

Company	Founded
Nintendo	1889

BIRTHS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Chushiro Hayashi	Astronomer	25-Jul-1920	28-Feb-2010	Big Bang astrophysicist
Juzo Itami	Film Director	15-May-1933	20-Dec-1997	Tampopo
Joi Ito	Business	19-Jun-1966		Director, MIT Media Lab
Isamu Kaneko	Computer Programmer	c. 1971		Mr. 47, developed WinNY p2p program
Saionji Kinmochi	Government	23-Oct-1849	24-Nov-1940	Twice Prime Minister of Japan
Koda Kumi	Singer	13-Nov-1982		Japanese Pop Idol
Emperor Meiji	Royalty	3-Nov-1852	30-Jul-1912	Emperor of Japan, 1867-1912
Haruki Murakami	Novelist	12-Jan-1949		The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Osamu Shimomura	Chemist	27-Aug-1928		Green Fluorescent Protein
Sin-Itiro Tomonaga	Physicist	31-Mar-1906	8-Jul-1979	Quantum electrodynamics
Fusajiro Yamauchi	Business	22-Nov-1860	Jan-1940	Founder of Nintendo

DEATHS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Cid Corman	Poet	29-Jun-1924	12-Mar-2004	Founder of Origin poetry magazine
Kenichi Fukui	Chemist	4-Oct-1918	9-Jan-1998	Frontier orbitals
Chushiro Hayashi	Astronomer	25-Jul-1920	28-Feb-2010	Big Bang astrophysicist
Kiyoshi Ito	Mathematician	7-Sep-1915	10-Nov-2008	Ito Calculus
Kenji Mizoguchi	Film Director	16-May-1898	24-Aug-1956	The Life of Oharu
Fusajiro Yamauchi	Business	22-Nov-1860	Jan-1940	Founder of Nintendo
Hideki Yukawa	Physicist	23-Jan-1907	8-Sep-1981	Predicted existence of mesons

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