Shirakawa

Shirakawa called:

Shirakawa (Fukushima ), a town in the Japanese prefecture of Fukushima
Shirakawa (Han), a fief based in Shirakawa (Fukushima )
Shirakawa- chō ( Gifu ), a town in Gifu Prefecture
Shirakawa- mura ( Gifu ), a village in Gifu Prefecture
A county in the province of Iwaki (formerly Mutsu ) in the case白川郡, 1878 Higashishirakawa -gun (Fukushima )
A county in the province of Iwaki (formerly Mutsu ) in the case白河郡, 1878 Nishishirakawa -gun (Fukushima )
A historic district including this Japanese village with the World Heritage Historic Villages of Shirakawa- gō and Gokayama
( 6198 ) Shirakawa, an asteroid of the main belt

Shirakawa is the surname of the following persons:

Shirakawa ( Tennō ) ( 1053-1129 ), the 72nd Tennō of Japan
Hideki Shirakawa ( b. 1936 ), Japanese chemist and Nobel Prize winner
Masaaki Shirakawa ( born 1949 ), Japanese economist and the 30th Governor of the Bank of Japan ( BOJ)
Yoshikazu Shirakawa ( born 1935 ), Japanese Photographer
Yoshinori Shirakawa (1869-1932), Japanese general and politician

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