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  • Kasai, Hyogo
    Kasai, Hyogo
    is a city located in Japan's Hyōgo Prefecture.As of 2008, the city has an estimated population of 49,496 and the density of 336.31 persons per km²...

     in Japan
    Japan
    is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

  • Kasai Station
    Kasai Station
    is a train station in Edogawa, Tokyo Prefecture, Japan. Its station number is T-17. The station opened on 29 March 1969, and consists of two elevated side platforms....

     in the Kasai section of Edogawa, Tokyo, Japan.
  • the Kasai River
    Kasai River
    The Kasai River is a tributary of the Congo River, located in central Africa. The river begins in Angola and serves as the border between Angola and the Democratic Republic of the Congo , then flows into the DRC, where it joins the Congo northeast of Kinshasa. The Kasai's tributaries include the...

     in Angola
    Angola
    Angola, officially the Republic of Angola , is a country in south-central Africa bordered by Namibia on the south, Democratic Republic of the Congo on the north, and Zambia on the east; its west coast is on the Atlantic Ocean. The exclave province of Cabinda has a border with the Republic of the...

     and the Democratic Republic of the Congo
    Democratic Republic of the Congo
    The Democratic Republic of the Congo is a country located in Central Africa, with a small length of Atlantic coastline. It is the third largest country in Africa...

  • the Kasai River
    Kangsabati River
    Kangsabati River rises from the Chota Nagpur plateau in the state of Jharkhand, India and passes through the districts of Purulia, Bankura and Paschim Medinipur in West Bengal before draining in the Hooghly River.-Course:After rising near Jhalda in the Chota Nagpur plateau in Purulia district, it...

     in India
    India
    India, officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the west, and the Bay of Bengal...

    , also known as the Kangsabati River
    Kangsabati River
    Kangsabati River rises from the Chota Nagpur plateau in the state of Jharkhand, India and passes through the districts of Purulia, Bankura and Paschim Medinipur in West Bengal before draining in the Hooghly River.-Course:After rising near Jhalda in the Chota Nagpur plateau in Purulia district, it...

  • Kasai region
    Kasai region
    The Kasai region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo is divided administratively into Kasai-Occidental and Kasai-Oriental. It shares its name with the Kasai River....

     in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
    Democratic Republic of the Congo
    The Democratic Republic of the Congo is a country located in Central Africa, with a small length of Atlantic coastline. It is the third largest country in Africa...

    , now divided into the eastern and western districts Kasai-Oriental
    Kasai-Oriental
    Kasai-Oriental is a province of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Its provincial capital is Mbuji-Mayi. It borders Kasai-Occidental to the west, Equateur to the north-west, Orientale to the north-east, Maniema to the east, and Katanga to the south...

     and Kasai-Occidental
    Kasai-Occidental
    Kasai-Occidental is a province of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Its provincial capital is Kananga. It borders Bandundu to the west, Equateur to the north, Kasai-Oriental to the east, and Katanga to the south-east. To the south it borders the country of Angola.- Post-2006 Constitution...

    , and a historic region South Kasai
    South Kasai
    South Kasai was a secessionist region in the area of south central Republic of the Congo during the early 1960s. The region sought independence in similar circumstances to neighboring State of Katanga during the political turmoil arising from the decolonization of Belgian Congo...

  • The Kasai Rex
    Kasai Rex
    Kasai rex is an animal claimed to be a surviving carnivorous dinosaur in Africa. There are conflicting descriptions of it, and the only original reports are suspected by most cryptozoologists to be dubious.-Kasai valley report:...

     is a living dinosaur
    Living dinosaur
    Living dinosaurs is a term sometimes used to denote birds, which are the only clade of dinosaurs, other than a controversial group of fossils known as Paleocene dinosaurs, to have survived the Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction event...

     said to live in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
    Democratic Republic of the Congo
    The Democratic Republic of the Congo is a country located in Central Africa, with a small length of Atlantic coastline. It is the third largest country in Africa...

    , more specifically the Kasai region
    Kasai region
    The Kasai region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo is divided administratively into Kasai-Occidental and Kasai-Oriental. It shares its name with the Kasai River....

    .
  • a Korean company producing pantyhose for women
  • Air Kasai
    Air Kasai
    Air Kasai is an airline based in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo. It operates charter services within Africa. Its main base is N'Dolo Airport, Kinshasa.The airline is on the List of air carriers banned in the European Union.- History :...



It is also a Japanese surname:
  • Noriaki Kasai
    Noriaki Kasai
    , born June 6, 1972 in Shimokawa,Hokkaidō, Japan, is a Japanese ski jumper. He won his first major championship in 1992 at the Ski-flying World Championships in Harrachov, Czechoslovakia. In 1994, he followed that up by winning a silver medal in the team large hill at the Winter Olympics in...

    , sportsman
  • Kasai Zenzo
    Kasai Zenzo
    was a Japanese novelist active in Taishō period Japan.-Early life:Kasai Zenzō was born in what is now part of Hirosaki city, Aomori prefecture, as the eldest son of a rice merchant. His parents died when he was two years old, and he was shuffled to relatives around Hokkaidō and Aomori. He was only...

    , author


It' also part of the name of the mighty Kasai Masai from Congo