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29-474: Asai was born on June 7, 1935, in Ehime Prefecture (on the island of Shikoku ), Japan. He was the eldest of seven children. As a boy, he trained in sumo . In addition, his father (a policeman) taught him judo , kendo , and sojutsu . When he was 12 years old, he witnessed a fight between a boxer and a karateka (practitioner of karate); the karate combatant was able to disable his opponent with

58-570: A kick, and Asai was impressed. In 1958, Asai graduated from Takushoku University , where he had trained in karate under Gichin Funakoshi , and Masatoshi Nakayama . He trained hard and was allowed to sleep in the karate dormitory. At Nakayama's recommendation, he entered the JKA instructor training program and graduated from the course three years later. Asai won the JKA championship in kumite (sparring) in 1961, and in kata (patterns) in 1963. He

87-702: A large portion of Shikoku Electric Power . The sports teams listed below are based in Ehime. Association football: Baseball: Basketball: The oldest extant hot spring in Japan, Dōgo Onsen , is located in Matsuyama. It has been used for over two thousand years. These are television shows and movies set in Ehime Prefecture. There are major festivals in Ehime Prefecture. These are several hot springs ( onsen ) in Ehime Prefecture. Iyo dialect

116-431: A number of industries, including dockyards of Japan's largest shipbuilder, Imabari Shipbuilding . Chemical industries, oil refining , paper and cotton textile products also are a feature of the prefecture. Rural areas mostly engage in agricultural and fishing industries, and are particularly known for citrus fruits such as mikan ( mandarin orange ), iyokan and cultured pearls . Ikata Nuclear Power Plant produces

145-798: A population of 1,334,841 and has a geographic area of 5,676 km (2,191 sq mi ). Ehime Prefecture borders Kagawa Prefecture to the northeast, Tokushima Prefecture to the east, and Kōchi Prefecture to the southeast. Matsuyama is the capital and largest city of Ehime Prefecture and the largest city on Shikoku, with other major cities including Imabari , Niihama , and Saijō . Notable past Ehime residents include three Nobel Prize winners: they are Kenzaburo Oe (1994 Nobel Prize in Literature ), Shuji Nakamura (2014 Nobel Prize in Physics ), and Syukuro Manabe (2021 Nobel Prize in Physics). Until

174-654: A three-day scientific meeting was held in Princeton, New Jersey in March 1998. "Understanding Climate Change: A Symposium in honor of Syukuro Manabe". The 2005 annual meeting of American Meteorological Society included a special Suki Manabe Symposium. Jointly Manabe with climatologist James Hansen received the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the Climate Change category in

203-637: Is a Japanese – American physicist , meteorologist , and climatologist , who pioneered the use of computers to simulate global climate change and natural climate variations . He was awarded the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics jointly with Klaus Hasselmann and Giorgio Parisi , for his contributions to the physical modeling of Earth's climate , quantifying its variability, and predictions of climate change. Born in 1931 in Shinritsu Village , Uma District , Ehime Prefecture , Japan . Both his grandfather and his father were physicians, who operated

232-549: Is a Japanese dialect spoken in Ehime Prefecture. Nanyo is influenced by the Kyushu dialect , and Chuyo and Toyo are influenced by the Kinki dialect. Ehime Prefecture is making use of its long tradition of involvement with people overseas through international exchanges in areas such as the economy, culture, sports and education. Syukuro Manabe Syukuro "Suki" Manabe ( 真鍋 淑郎 , Manabe Shukurō , born 21 September 1931)

261-557: Is bordered by Kagawa and Tokushima in the east and Kōchi in the south. The prefecture includes both high mountains in the inland region and a long coastline, with many islands in the Seto Inland Sea . The westernmost arm of Ehime, the Sadamisaki Peninsula , is the narrowest peninsula in Japan. As of 31 March 2020, 7 percent of the total land area of the prefecture was designated as Natural Parks , namely

290-547: The Ashizuri-Uwakai and Setonaikai National Parks; Ishizuchi Quasi-National Park ; and Hijikawa , Kinshako , Okudōgo Tamagawa , Sadamisaki Hantō-Uwakai , Saragamine Renpō , Sasayama , and Shikoku Karst Prefectural Natural Parks. Eleven cities are located in Ehime Prefecture: These are the towns in each district : Former districts: The coastal areas around Imabari and Saijō host

319-807: The Crafoord Prize in Geosciences jointly with Susan Solomon "for fundamental contributions to understanding the role of atmospheric trace gases in Earth's climate system". In 2021, he received the Order of Culture . In 2022, Manabe was named by Carnegie Corporation of New York as an honoree of the Great Immigrants Awards . In 2021, one half of the Nobel Prize in Physics was shared between Manabe and Klaus Hasselmann "for

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348-637: The Meiji Restoration , Ehime Prefecture was known as Iyo Province . Since before the Heian period , the area was dominated by fishermen and sailors who played an important role in defending Japan against pirates and Mongolian invasions. After the Battle of Sekigahara , the Tokugawa shōgun gave the area to his allies, including Katō Yoshiaki who built Matsuyama Castle , forming the basis for

377-1105: The Royal Society of Canada . In 1992, Manabe was the first recipient of the Blue Planet Prize of the Asahi Glass Foundation. In 1995, he received the Asahi Prize from Asahi News-Cultural Foundation. In 1997 Manabe was awarded the Volvo Environmental Prize from the Volvo Foundation. In 2015 he was awarded the Benjamin Franklin Medal of Franklin Institute. Manabe has also been honored with the American Meteorological Society 's Carl-Gustaf Rossby Research Medal ,

406-420: The atmosphere . As the first step, Manabe and Wetherald (1967) developed one-dimensional, single-column model of the atmosphere in radiative-convective equilibrium with positive feedback effect of water vapor. Using the model, they found that, in response to the change in atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide, the temperature increases at the Earth's surface and in the troposphere, whereas it decreases in

435-665: The JKA experienced political troubles and divided; Asai and colleagues (including Keigo Abe and Mikio Yahara ) formed one group, while Nakahara Nobuyuki and colleagues formed another group—which in 1999 was officially recognized as the JKA. In 2000, he founded the International Japan Martial Arts Karate Asai-ryu and the Japan Karate Shoto-Renmei. Apart from the ranking of 9th dan in Shotokan karate, he also held

464-1026: The Second Half Century Award, and the Clarence Leroy Meisinger Award. In addition, he is honored with the American Geophysical Union 's William Bowie Medal and Revelle Medal, and in 1998 received the Milutin Milankovic Medal from the European Geophysical Society . Manabe and Bryan's work in the development of the first global climate models has been selected as one of the Top Ten Breakthroughs to have occurred in NOAA 's first 200 years. In honor of his retirement from NOAA / GFDL ,

493-753: The United States as a visiting research collaborator at the Program in Atmospheric and Oceanic Science, Princeton University . He currently serves as senior meteorologist at the university. He also engaged as a specially invited professor at Nagoya University from December 2007 to March 2014. Working at NOAA 's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory , first in Washington, DC and later in Princeton, New Jersey , Manabe worked with director Joseph Smagorinsky to develop three-dimensional models of

522-837: The University of Tokyo. After finishing his doctorate, Manabe went to the United States to work at the General Circulation Research Section of the U.S. Weather Bureau, now the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory of NOAA , continuing until 1997. From 1997 to 2001, he worked at the Frontier Research System for Global Change in Japan serving as Director of the Global Warming Research Division. In 2002 he returned to

551-418: The blood rushes to my head, so I would not have made a good doctor." Furthermore, "I had a horrible memory and I was clumsy with my hands. I thought that my only good trait was to gaze at the sky and get lost in my thoughts." He joined the research team of Shigekata Shono (1911–1969), and majored in meteorology . Manabe received a BA degree in 1953, an MA degree in 1955, and a DSc degree in 1958, all from

580-488: The first simulations of the climate by a coupled ocean-atmosphere models, in which the general circulation model of the atmosphere is combined with that of ocean. Throughout the 1990s and early 2000s, Manabe's research group published seminal papers using the coupled atmosphere ocean models to investigate the time-dependent response of climate to changing greenhouse gas concentrations of the atmosphere (Stouffer et al., 1989; Manabe et al., 1991 & 1992). They also applied

609-596: The model to the study of past climate change, including the role of freshwater input to the North Atlantic Ocean as a potential cause of the so-called, abrupt climate change evident in the paleoclimatic record (Manabe and Stouffer, 1995 & 2000). For further details, see Selected publications. Manabe is a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences , and a foreign member of Japan Academy, Academia Europaea and

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638-455: The modern city of Matsuyama . The name Ehime comes from the kuniumi part of the Kojiki where Iyo Province is mythologically named Ehime, "lovely princess". In 2012, a research group from the University of Tokyo and Ehime University said they had discovered rare earth deposits in Matsuyama. Located in the northwestern part of Shikoku, Ehime faces the Seto Inland Sea to the north and

667-440: The ninth edition (2016) of the awards. The two laureates were separately responsible for constructing the first computational models with the power to simulate climate behavior. Decades ago, they correctly predicted how much Earth's temperature would rise due to increasing atmospheric CO 2 . The scores of models currently in use to chart climate evolution are heirs to those developed by Manabe and Hansen. In 2018, Manabe received

696-468: The only clinic in the village. A classmate recalled that, even in elementary school, he was already "interested in the weather, making comments such as 'If Japan didn't have typhoons , we wouldn't have so much rain.'" Manabe attended Ehime Prefectural Mishima High School . When he was accepted into the University of Tokyo , his family expected him to study medicine, but "whenever there's an emergency,

725-494: The passing of Mr. Enoeda, Mr. Kase, Mr. Tabata and Mr. Shoji and so forth has brought many of us back to reality. Obviously this is not limited to Takushoku University, it is all about us international karate pioneers getting very old." Asai's health deteriorated with age, and he underwent liver surgery on February 10, 2006. He died at 2:50 PM on August 15, 2006, leaving behind his wife, Keiko Asai, and their daughter, Hoshimi Asai. More than 2,000 people attended his funeral, which

754-447: The ranks of 3rd dan in jodo , 2nd dan in judo, 2nd dan in jukendo , and 2nd dan in kendo. Reflecting on relations between JKA instructors who had graduated from Takushoku University, Asai said, "we all pretty much get on nowadays, contrary to our official stances and federations. In saying that, some of us don't, but isn't that life? ... I am happy to say that most of the deep rooted rivalry has gone amongst my peers. I think that

783-424: The stratosphere. The development of the radiative-convective model was a critically important step towards the development of comprehensive general circulation model of the atmosphere (Manabe et al. 1965). They used the model to simulate for the first time the three-dimensional response of temperature and the hydrologic cycle to increased carbon dioxide (Manabe and Wetherald, 1975). In 1969, Manabe and Bryan published

812-552: Was held on September 1, 2006, at Gokokuji Temple in Tokyo. Asai received the rank of 10th dan posthumously from the JKS, and was eventually succeeded as President of the IJKA by his widow (despite her not being a karate practitioner) Ehime Prefecture Ehime Prefecture ( 愛媛県 , Ehime-ken ) is a prefecture of Japan located on the island of Shikoku . Ehime Prefecture has

841-552: Was overall JKA champion in 1961, having come first in kumite and second in kata that year. Asai became the first instructor to introduce karate to Taiwan. Through the second half of the 1960s, he taught karate in Hawaii for five years, with his students including Kenneth Funakoshi (a fourth cousin to Gichin Funakoshi). Over the years, Asai advanced within the JKA, and was appointed as Technical Director. Following Nakayama's death,

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