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18-718: The company was established in 1946 as the Kasuga Radio Co. Ltd. in Komagane City , Nagano Prefecture , Japan. In 1960, the company was renamed to Trio Corporation. In 1963, the first overseas office was founded in Los Angeles County, California , USA. In the early 1960s, Trio's products were rebranded by the Lafayette Radio Company , with a focus on citizens' band radio . A&A Trading Co. imported Japanese-made electronics for RadioShack . William "Bill" Kasuga,

36-431: A bilingual Japanese-speaking manager from A&A, partnered with George Aratani and Yoichi Nakase to establish a company as the exclusive importer of Trio products. The name Kenwood was invented by Kasuga as a combination of "Ken" (a name common to Japan and North America that was considered acceptable to American consumers due to Kenmore appliances ), and "Wood" (referring to the durable substance, as well as suggesting

54-668: A few (Yamagata, Toyama, Osaka, Hyōgo, Fukuoka), and none in some – Miyazaki became the last prefecture to contain its first city in 1924. In Okinawa -ken and Hokkai-dō which were not yet fully equal prefectures in the Empire, major urban settlements remained organized as urban districts until the 1920s: Naha-ku and Shuri-ku, the two urban districts of Okinawa were only turned into Naha -shi and Shuri-shi in May 1921, and six -ku of Hokkaidō were converted into district-independent cities in August 1922. By 1945,

72-450: A new design aesthetic. The NV-301 and NV-701 both shared a three-layered half-mirrored design. The NV-301 was the basic model with two speakers and a line input (marked for MiniDisc and DVD players) while the NV-701 was a 5.1 Dolby surround sound model with A/V inputs. Both featured a three-disc carousel, cassette player with Dolby B noise reduction, natural display, intelligent features and

90-1181: A relation to Hollywood, California ). The brand recognition of Kenwood eventually surpassed that of Trio. In 1986, Trio bought Kenwood and renamed itself Kenwood. George Aratani was the first chairman of Kenwood USA Corporation, and was later succeeded by Kasuga. In October 2008, Kenwood merged with JVC to form a new holding company, JVCKenwood . Kenwood introduced its Sovereign line of components in 2001. In 2007, Kenwood discontinued its line of consumer audio receivers, home theater systems and other home electronics. Today, Kenwood products include home audio , car audio aftermarket and OEM, in car entertainment , amateur radio , professional two-way radio and DECT wireless intercom sectors. Kenwood offers speakers at different grades, ranging from stage sound to hi-fidelity. Kenwood has offered lines of HF , VHF / UHF , and portable amateur radio models, including some with built-in digital data modes ( Automatic Packet Reporting System , built on AX.25 packet radio ) and modems needed to send and receive these protocols. Kenwood's series of "Integrated Amplifier" stereo power amplifiers, launched in 1977 and produced through

108-480: A town or village when it fails to meet any of these conditions, but such a demotion has not happened to date. The least populous city, Utashinai, Hokkaido , has a population of three thousand, while a town in the same prefecture, Otofuke, Hokkaido , has over forty thousand. Under the Act on Special Provisions concerning Merger of Municipalities ( 市町村の合併の特例等に関する法律 , Act No. 59 of 2004) , the standard of 50,000 inhabitants for

126-636: Is a city located in Nagano Prefecture , Japan . As of 1 February 2019 , the city had an estimated population of 32,210 in 12,937 households, and a population density of 190 persons per km . The total area of the city is 165.86 square kilometres (64.04 sq mi). Komagane is located in a north-south valley of the Tenryu River between the Central and Southern Alps in south-central Nagano Prefecture at an average elevation of 676 meters. It

144-402: Is largely agricultural, with rice and pears, along with sake brewing as major components. The manufacturing sector includes electronics and precision instrumentation. Seasonal tourism is also an important contributor to the local economy. Komagane has five public elementary schools and two public middle schools operated by the city government. The city has two public high schools operated by

162-680: Is situated at the 220 km marker on the southern (Nagoya) branch of the Chūō Expressway , The city has a climate characterized by hot and humid summers, and relatively mild winters ( Köppen climate classification Cfa ). The average annual temperature in Komagane is 11.7 °C. The average annual rainfall is 1,486 mm with September as the wettest month. The temperatures are highest on average in August, at around 24.3 °C, and lowest in January, at around -0.4 °C. Per Japanese census data,

180-617: The Komagatake Ropeway (gondola) ascends Mount Komagatake in the Central Alps. The city has several popular tourist hotels (including one on the mountain which is only accessible via the ropeway), a youth hostel, onsen and a ski resort. Cities of Japan A city ( 市 , shi ) is a local administrative unit in Japan . Cities are ranked on the same level as towns ( 町 , machi ) and villages ( 村 , mura ) , with

198-467: The Nagano Prefectural Board of Education. The Nagano College of Nursing is located in Komagane. Despite relatively poor transportation infrastructure (there is no Shinkansen link and the existing railway is a single track local line), the city derives a large proportion of its overall income from tourism. The Silk Museum is situated to the east of the city, while on the western side of town

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216-633: The Tokyo metropolitan area, each have an administrative status analogous to that of cities. Tokyo also has several other incorporated cities, towns and villages within its jurisdiction. Cities were introduced under the "city code" ( shisei , 市制) of 1888 during the "Great Meiji mergers" ( Meiji no daigappei , 明治の大合併) of 1889. The -shi replaced the previous urban districts /"wards/cities" (-ku) that had existed as primary subdivisions of prefectures besides rural districts (-gun) since 1878. Initially, there were 39 cities in 1889: only one in most prefectures, two in

234-546: The ability to save up to 40 radio stations, utilising microcomputers to reduce the size of the unit. Kenwood is a brand of JVCKENWOOD Corporation making two-way radios including wireless DECT intercom systems, PMR446 , dPMR446 , dPMR , P25 , DMR and NXDN . The Kenwood communications product range includes hand-portable and mobile terminals (including Intrinsically Safe and ATEX / IECEx hand-portables), repeaters , infrastructure and application solutions. Komagane, Nagano Komagane ( 駒ヶ根市 , Komagane-shi )

252-677: The city status has been eased to 30,000 if such population is gained as a result of a merger of towns and/or villages , in order to facilitate such mergers to reduce administrative costs. Many municipalities gained city status under this eased standard. On the other hand, the municipalities recently gained the city status purely as a result of increase of population without expansion of area are limited to those listed in List of former towns or villages gained city status alone in Japan . The Cabinet of Japan can designate cities of at least 200,000 inhabitants to have

270-625: The difference that they are not a component of districts ( 郡 , gun ) . Like other contemporary administrative units, they are defined by the Local Autonomy Law of 1947. Article 8 of the Local Autonomy Law sets the following conditions for a municipality to be designated as a city: The designation is approved by the prefectural governor and the Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications . A city can theoretically be demoted to

288-457: The mid-1980s. The design for most of these products feature a true dual-mono path for stereo output (no electrical components are shared between left- and right-channel amplification). Front plates were typically made in brushed aluminum with aluminum knobs and switches, glass covers, and in some cases analog VU meters. Amplifiers in this series included (in no particular order): These were a series of mini hi-fi systems launched in 2000, featuring

306-465: The population of Komagane has remained relatively stable over recent decades. The area of present-day Komagane was part of ancient Shinano Province . The city was founded on July 1, 1954 by the merger of the towns of Akaho and Miyata with the villages of Nakasawa and Ina (all from Kamiina District ). Komagane has a mayor-council form of government with a directly elected mayor and a unicameral city legislature of 15 members. The economy of Komagane

324-401: The status of core city , or designated city . These statuses expand the scope of administrative authority delegated from the prefectural government to the city government. Tokyo , Japan's capital, existed as a city until 1943, but is now legally classified as a special type of prefecture called a metropolis ( 都 , to ) . The 23 special wards of Tokyo , which constitute the core of

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