• the 1½ km long Odori Park which bisects the Japanese city of Sapporo was originally intended as the city's main street?

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Sapporo

• the 1½ km long Odori Park which bisects the Japanese city of Sapporo was originally intended as the city's main street?
• the Susukino district was established as a red-light district in Sapporo, Japan in 1871 to keep labourers in Hokkaidō?
• the city of Sapporo has the only beer museum in Japan?

Japan

• 196 activists of the Japanese Hyōgikai trade union movement were jailed in 1926 for organizing strikes?
• 22-year-old Ling Ling was the oldest panda in Japan at the time of his death in April 2008?
• 99 percent of Japanese municipalities collect and recycle steel cans despite not being required by law, giving the country one of the world's highest recycling rates for these cans? (Japanese recycling bins pictured)
• Academy Award-winning film Thirty Seconds over Tokyo was adapted from a book by the pilot of "The Ruptured Duck," one of 16 USAAF bombers in the Doolittle Raid on Japan during World War II?
• BoA's Best of Soul made her the first non-Japanese Asian singer to have two million-selling albums in Japan?
• Buddhist monk Ekai Kawaguchi was the first Japanese citizen to travel to Nepal?
• Duke University anthropologist Anne Allison worked as a hostess girl for four months while researching Nightwork, her study of white-collar entertainment clubs in Japan?
• feminist author Yuriko Miyamoto wrote over 900 letters to her imprisoned husband, defying Japan's draconian Peace Preservation Laws?
• General Douglas MacArthur's staff threatened United States Army Lieutenant Colonel Charles S. Lawrence with court martial if he confiscated nearly 2,000 cases of food from Japanese-run firms in the Philippines, and that the stores were destroyed during the Battle of Bataan in early 1942?
• Japan and India signed a peace treaty and established diplomatic relations in April 1952, one of the first such treaties by Japan after World War II?

Munich

• "My Best Friend's Girl," a 1978 hit single for The Cars, was performed by Nirvana during their final concert in Munich?
• Anton Graf von Arco auf Valley was a German monarchist who murdered Bavarian socialist leader Kurt Eisner on a sidewalk in Munich in 1919?
• Augustiner Bräu is Munich's only German-owned brewery?
• Franz Anton Bustelli, who worked at Nymphenburg near Munich, is widely regarded as the finest modeller of porcelain in the Rococo style (example pictured)?
• Jacopo de' Barberi painted the first trompe l'oeil still-life (pictured) since antiquity, which is now in the Alte Pinakothek, Munich?
• Reinhard von Werneck gave Munich's Englischer Garten much of its current form by almost doubling its area and by creating a new lake, the Kleinhesseloher See?
• according to legend, the Teufelstritt (Devil's Footstep), in the Munich Frauenkirche in Munich, Germany, marks the spot where the devil stood when he thought that the builder had constructed a cathedral with no windows?
• architectural elements akin to those of the Olympic Stadium in Munich were incorporated in the Central Railway Station in Sofia during its latest renovation?
• the architecture firm of Sauerbruch Hutton designed the Museum Brandhorst in Munich?
• the flute arrangement of the trio composition Gestural Variations was premiered in Munich by the composer, Graham Waterhouse, and two other composers?