Ora Attuale a Ōkuchi-shinohara, Giappone — JST.

Takehiko Inoue is a Japanese manga artist. He is best known for the basketball series Slam Dunk (1990–1996), and the jidaigeki manga Vagabond, which are two of the best-selling manga series in history. Many of his works are about basketball, Inoue himself being a huge fan of the sport. His works sold in North America through Viz Media are Slam Dunk, Vagabond and Real, although Slam Dunk was earlier translated by Gutsoon! Entertainment. In 2012, Inoue became the first recipient of the Cultural Prize at the Asia Cosmopolitan Awards. In 2024, Inoue received the MEXT Arts Encouragement Prize.

From Ōkuchi-shinohara the nearest of our reference hubs are Tokyo (~924 km), Singapore (~4,422 km), Dubai (~7,246 km), while São Paulo sits about 19,030 km away — useful framing when someone needs a feel for whether a meeting is a regional hop or an intercontinental call.

Ōkuchi-shinohara sits inside Giappone — the Eastern Asia subregion, capital Tokyo, languages Japanese, currency JPY (¥).

Isa (1 km), Tsuruda (19 km), Hitoyoshi (20 km), Ebino (21 km) are the nearest cities WorldClockTools indexes around Ōkuchi-shinohara — that's the cluster to use when scheduling spills past the city limits.

Upcoming country holiday signals around Ōkuchi-shinohara: Shōwa Day, Constitution Memorial Day, Greenery Day. Bake those into launch, on-call, and travel windows for Giappone.

Closest curated airport references from Ōkuchi-shinohara: KMJ Kumamoto (88 km), NGS Nagasaki (116 km), HSG Saga (124 km).