Takayuki Ohira was born in Kawasaki in 1970 and is a planetarium creator who has developed and built many planetariums on his own. He has projected a great many starry skies and developed the MEGASTAR II that has been certified by the Guinness Book of World Records as being the “most advanced planetarium in the world. The first MEGASTAR II “Phoenix” projects 4.1 million stars and is a popular attraction at the Kawasaki Municipal Science Museum for Youth where Mr. Ohira “first experienced the wonders of a planetarium.”
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The 3rd American Football World Cup in Kawasaki was held in Kawasaki in July 2007. National teams from such countries as Japan, South Korea, USA, Sweden, Germany, and France gather here to battle for the right to be declared the best in the world.
Japanese national team had won the previous two World Cups, but this time the national team from the United States, the birthplace of American football, participated for the first time. Many watched to see if Japan could take the championship for the third time in a row. The final game pitted American against Japan. In the hard fought game both teams gave performances worthy of the championship game, but after the end of the overtime period the American team was victorious with a score of 23 to 20 over the Japanese team and then went on to win the first championship at the first trial.

The Kanagawa Science Park was built in 1989 to promote the development of industry within Kanagawa Prefecture, which was already known as an industrial prefecture. The facility is the largest of its type in Japan and serves as a high-tech incubator and promotes support of R&D companies. The Kanagawa Science Park contains company laboratories, facilities for fostering exchange, research education organizations, and other facilities in addition to providing offices and laboratories for entrepreneurs and other means for providing organizational enterprise startup support.
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The “Zenjimaru Persimmon” was discovered during the Early Kamakura Period (1185-1249) in the mountains around the Ozenji Temple in Asao Ward today and the fact that it was very sweet was recorded and is thus said to be the first sweet persimmon in Japan. This persimmon was widely cultivated during the Edo, Meiji, Taisho, and Showa periods, but it disappeared from markets during the early 1970’s.
Under these circumstances, the Kakio Zenjimaru Persimmon Preservation Society was founded in 1995 to bring local people together to engage in activities to preserve the original trees and plant new ones. On July 26, 2007, seven Zenjimaru persimmon trees were designated as Registered National Monuments. The Zenjimaru wine is made from these Zenjimaru persimmons. This Zenjimaru wine has also been designated as a famous Kawasaki product.