[A] chair happening to pass, he laid hold of the opportunity, and by an exertion of his muscles pitched upon the top of the carriage, which was immediately overturned in the kennel […].

His father expected him to enter the government or a major corporation upon graduation from the university, but Noboru Wataya chose to remain in academe and become a scholar.

His genially skew-whiff posture for the camera may be intended to deflect easy attempts to get an angle on him.

In January 2016 the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) announced the discovery of four new elements, so completing the seventh row of the periodic table. They have since been named as nihonium, Nh, muscovium, Mc, tennessine, Ts, and organesson, Og. The procedures for naming new elements are clearly laid out by IUPAC.