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  Hiroshima - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The city of Hiroshima (広島市; -shi) is the capital of Hiroshima Prefecture, and the largest city in the Chugoku region of western Honshu, the largest of Japan's islands.
Hiroshima was founded in 1589, on the coast of the Seto Inland Sea, and became a major urban center during the Meiji period.
In 1949, Hiroshima was proclaimed a City of Peace by the Japanese parliament, at the initiative of its mayor Shinzo Hamai (b.
www.bexley.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Hiroshima,_Japan   (935 words)

  
 NEW TRAVEL AGE - Directory - Guide in Japan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
In 1886, the Hiroshima Garrison was renamed the Fifth Division.
Hiroshima City Hall (1.2 kilometers from the center) also caught fire and the entire building was gutted, although the main shell of the hall which was reinforced concrete, was left standing.
Hiroshima was newly born on the principle of democracy.
www.newtravelage.com /info/asia/japan/history/hiroshima.htm   (6049 words)

  
 Hiroshima Prefecture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Hiroshima is a traditional center of the Chugoku region and was the seat of the Mori clan until the Battle of Sekigahara.
On November 1, 2004, the town of Etajima from Aki District merged with the towns of Nomi, Ogaki, and Okimi from Saeki District forming the city of Etajima.
Hiroshima's main industries include automobiles (Mazda is headquartered in Hiroshima Prefecture) and shipbuilding (Kure was one of the main naval bases of the Imperial Japanese Navy and remains a major commercial yard).
www.sevenhills.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Hiroshima_Prefecture   (652 words)

  
 Aki District, Hiroshima - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
There are other places with this name including districts in other prefectures, see Aki.
As of 2004 population data but counting decreases due to the March 20, 2005 merger, the district has an estimated population of 116,573 and a density of 1588 persons per km².
On November 1, 2004, the town of Etajima merged with three towns from Saeki District forming the city of Etajima.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Aki_District,_Hiroshima   (133 words)

  
 Shohei Imamura   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
On the morning of August 6, 1945, a young woman named Yasuko (Yoshiko Tanaka) catches a ride with a neighbor who is evacuating from Hiroshima in order to transport her family's formal clothes and sentimental possessions to a friend's home for safekeeping on a nearby island in Furué.
A few years later, as the family struggles to rebuild their life amidst the ruins of Hiroshima in the rural village of Takafuta, Shigeko and Shigamatsu attempt to find a suitable husband for Yasuko in the grim realization that they have begun to exhibit initial symptoms of radiation poisoning.
However, despite reaching marrying age and receiving a clean bill of health from the neighborhood doctor, Yasuko's marital prospects prove bleak, marred by the experience of the atomic bomb that invariably drives suitors away in fear of the unknown long-term effects of the island's exposure.
www.filmref.com /directors/dirpages/imamura.html   (2163 words)

  
 Elizabeth's Japan Picture Album
The fifth is Sawako and Aki's puppy, Karua.
In the first picture, everyone is standing around these big heavy metal things (to the left of the picture), that, if a woman could lift them, she would have power in the household, etc., depending on which one she picked up.
The third is from dinner in Hiroshima after we returned from Miyajima, and the second is a goofy picture from the parking deck of a karaoke bar we went to that night.
www.unc.edu /~emanning/japan   (3333 words)

  
 PHOTOGRAPHS OF HIROSHIMA AND NAGASAKI (GENSUIKIN)
The "The Hiroshima Tokuho" (the phantom newspaper) was published on August 6, 1980, faithfully reflecting the feeling of that time based on the news collected by three reporters and a cameraman who heated toward the hypocenter immediately after the detonation of the A-bomb.
The Urakami district, the northern part of Nagasaki City, was originally a quiet residential area; but, from around the time of the Japan-China War, munition factories were constructed one aftere another.
Hiroshima, Nagasaki and surrounding areas are still the graveyards of the A-bomb victims.
www.gensuikin.org /english/photo.html   (5361 words)

  
 Aki Kurose - Inspirational Yet Tragic Symbol of Peace (Education Revolt)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Aki Kurose spent the last 17 years of her life living with cancer, dying on May 24, 1998 at age 73.
Though Aki Kurose’s stature as a peace activist is beyond reproach, her legend is in some ways diminished by the Seattle Schools bureaucracy.
In other words, the Seattle School Board didn’t give a damn about Aki Kurose when she was an unknown being harassed by a wretched principal; she was just another teacher with no rights as a human being.
www.geobop.com /education/People/Teachers/Kurose   (844 words)

  
 The Land Mine Museum, Siem Reap, Cambodia by Susan Miles | Travel Reviews from Travel Intelligence
A former child soldier conscript with both the Khmer Rouge and Vietnamese armies, Aki Ra, along with his young combatants were made to lay the various anti-personal devices that covered Cambodia.
When Aki Ra first moved to the region in the late 1990’s, it was an isolated and lonely rural landscape, as the local people were too fearful of the mines remaining in the ground to farm and settle.
For its simple layout and structure, the museum is a total success in its goal to educate and raise awareness of the continued devastating affect of anti-personal devices not only in Cambodia, but in other war-ravaged regions of the world.
www.travelintelligence.net /wsd/articles/art_1000136.html   (1212 words)

  
 Mori clan
Their name was derived from a shoen in Mōri, Aikō district, Sagami province.
After the Jōkyū War Mōri was appointed to the jito office of a shoen in Aki province.
The West Army lost the battle and the Mori clan lost three eastern provinces and moved their capital from Hiroshima to currentday Hagi, Yamaguchi.
www.1bx.com /en/Mori_clan.htm   (253 words)

  
 Aki   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Aki (Japanese: 安芸) is the name of several places in Japan:
Aki province, an old province in the Western part of Honshu, part of what is today Hiroshima Prefecture.
Age District, Mie, a district in Mie Prefecture (different romanization, but same Japanese name)
www.worldhistory.com /wiki/A/Aki.htm   (149 words)

  
 School name honors teacher who 'believed in peace'   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
It's believed to be the first time the district will name a school after one of its own teachers.
Kurose took in "Hiroshima maidens" -- women who were treated in Seattle for burns received in the 1945 atomic blast in Japan -- and reared nine foster children, along with the six children she had with her late husband, Junelow.
The district tried and was unable to locate any descendants of the 1952 building's first namesake, Caspar Sharples, a pioneer Seattle physician and former School Board member.
seattlepi.nwsource.com /local/aki02.shtml   (1159 words)

  
 wikien.info: Main_Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
As of 2003, the district has an estimated population of 81,798 and a density of 101.62 persons per km²;.
Andhra Pradesh state was created from the eleven northern districts of Madras state in 1953, and Kurnool served as the state's first capital.
Kursky District, a district in Stavropol Krai, Russia.
www.hostingciamca.com /browse.php?title=K/KU/KUR   (8001 words)

  
 UNESCO Courier: Shinto and shoguns: a return to Itsukushima - Shinto shrine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
And during the short ferry crossing to Itsukushima, the shadows of passengers are reflected on the white sands of the shoals.
In 1146, when he was appointed governor of Aki province (the west of the current department of Hiroshima), his faith in the deities of Itsukushima gained astonishing fervour.
Not only because the island is close to the city of Hiroshima, but also because my family owned a small house on the island where we regularly spent the summer.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1310/is_2001_Feb/ai_70910776   (1558 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Japan
At the head of each district is a sub-prefect, at the head of each village or town is a mayor assisted by a council.
The departments, districts, towns, and villages have a special budget administered by the general council, the district council, the municipal council, and increased by local revenues independent of the taxes raised by the Government.
The tribunals number 358; courts of cassation, 1; courts of appeal, 7 (Tokio, Osaka, Nagoya, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Miyaga, and Hakodate); lower courts (district courts), 49 (at least one to a department); courts of justices of the peace (sub-district courts), 301.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/08297a.htm   (17760 words)

  
 Sex And The City, Tokyo Style
The story, and the purpose-built youth mecca of Shibuya, where much of it is set, encapsulates their deepest fears about modern Japanese urban life and its effect on their children.
A swarming district of fashion boutiques, restaurants and clubs built around the western hub of Tokyo's major train lines, Shibuya draws millions of youngsters every year, who come to shop, eat and play.
Lingerie and cosmetics for pre-pubescents are worrying enough for many parents, but the surrounding district is infested with hundreds of massage parlours, flesh joints and porn companies, part of a booming sex industry that is always hungry for young flesh.
www.rense.com /general49/sex.htm   (1248 words)

  
 Oita Prefecture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Oita Prefecture is almost entirely covered by mountains and has only narrow coastal plains.
These are the towns and villages in each district.
Oita Prefecture is famous for its hot springs, particularly those in and around the city of Beppu, known as the 'hells', or jigoku.
www.sevenhills.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Oita_Prefecture   (402 words)

  
 Encyclopedia of Japanese History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The index also has a listing of all the battles under their entry names as well as a long list under `Battles'.
A province on the Inland Sea side of western Honshū, in what is today Hiroshima Prefecture.
aka “Samurai District'', the Bukeyashiki is an area in Kanazawa with old samurai houses from the Tokugawa Period.
www.openhistory.org /jhdp/encyclopedia/b.html   (808 words)

  
 Obituaries
After enrolling at the University of Hawaii, Cayaban began working as a district nurse at Palama Settlement, making her the second Filipina public health nurse employed in the territory of Hawaii.
Aki, a substitute teacher aide and clerical worker for the Kamehameha Early Educational Program, was born in in Kealakekua, Hawaii.
Born in Hiroshima, Japan, she is survived by sons Francis T. and George N.; daughters Irene A. Ikehara and Eleanor T. Takahashi; sister Sai Hirozawa; 11 grandchildren; and 10 great-grandchildren.
starbulletin.com /97/01/20/community/obits.html   (1546 words)

  
 Cecilie Bodman's CU
Aki has unsatisfying relationships and feels a general uneasiness about her life.
The student may be able to relate to this situation and be able to better articulate what he or she needs to resolve past issues that may be holding him or her back.
Aki, the main character, has lost a number of close school friends, they were vaporized and her world never quite reaches fulfillment with the lingering unresolved rite.
www.unm.edu /~abqteach/world_lit/02-06-02.htm   (6208 words)

  
 Cannes 2002: Special Report
Aki Kaurismäki's Mies vailla menneisyyttä (The Man without a Past, Finland / France / Germany), voted the Grand Prix as well as Best Actress Award to Kati Outinen, came across at least as a worthy homage to the American film noir of the postwar years.
Born 1953 in the Estaque district of Marseilles, a favourite haunt of Cézanne and the Impressionists at the turn of the century, Robert Guédiguian's origins are typically foreign for this working-man's quarter of the port city.
And the so-called "Estaque tales" are always set in the same proletarian district of Marseilles and with the same love and understanding for the poor.
www.kinema.uwaterloo.ca /hollo022.htm   (10783 words)

  
 Japan Stories: Honshu   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Of course, the main thing to see in Hiroshima is the Peace Park and Atomic Bomb museum.
The museum is probably the most depressing museum on the face of the earth.
In the soft rain that was falling, I headed over to the A-bomb Dome, which is one of the few buildings left standing afterwards.
www.cs.washington.edu /homes/allen/jshonshu.html   (3967 words)

  
 Imperial Battleships   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The NAGATO is assigned to the Yokosuka Naval District.
The NAGATO is assigned to the Combined Fleet's BatDiv 1 with her sister-ship, the MUTSU at Hashirajima in Hiroshima Bay.
The NAGATO is reassigned to the Yokosuka Naval District as a coastal defense vessel.
www.combinedfleet.com /nagatrom.htm   (6431 words)

  
 Watch 'n Read INTERMEDIATE Set 2
Born and raised in Hilo, Fidelis Aki came into a family of fishermen, so he naturally followed in their footsteps.
Kenji is the 13-year-old Hawaii born son of Shirokichi and Haru Nakamura who came to Hawaii in 1886 from Hiroshima, Japan to work on a sugar plantation.
All the mo'olelo (stories) that were shared with him, the landmarks that were shown to him by his father and the sum total of past experiences have come back to help him in his work.
www.k12.hi.us /~medialib/wnrIN2.html   (3457 words)

  
 Japanese American Archival Collection-Template
He was chapter president, District Governor, and fundraiser and speaker for the Redress effort.
Born in Yuba City, California of Hiroshima immigrants, her education was acquired in Marysville, California, and in Kyoto, Japan.
Carol later went into law, but her husband, Aki, is a pharmacist.
www.library.csus.edu /collections/jaac/oralhist.html   (14866 words)

  
 Kakuei Tanaka - a political biography of modern Japan:
When asked why she did not run in the last election, she said that she was too busy taking care of her father and helping her husband in his election.
Critics immediately accussed her of running on her father's name to keep the district's Diet seat warm for her son who was not yet twenty-five.
This was proof that the people of the Third District had not forgetten Kakuei Tanaka.
www.rcrinc.com /tanaka/ch5-4.html   (8976 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Should towers rise again?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Some people are arguing for leaving at least some of the ruins in place as a memorial.
Hiroshima left a ruined building standing as a memorial after the 1945 atomic bomb attack, and Coventry, England, preserved the ruins of its cathedral after a World War II bombing.
Aki Davis, a photographer selling his images of the World Trade Center at a Manhattan street stall, says people want the pictures to help them heal.
www.usatoday.com /news/nation/2001/09/24/towers-acov.htm   (1871 words)

  
 2003 Fellowship to Japan : 2003 Keizai Koho Center Fellowship Travel Log   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Aki taught me how to make origami and we exchanged gifts and addresses and then Michi brought me back to the Imperial Hotel.
This was a very sobering experience and it was horrifying to see images of young children and people with their skin literally hanging off them in pictures.
But visiting with people in Hiroshima, Japan and exploring the rebuilt city reminds you that these were real events that happened to the people you are talking to.
kkcfellowships.ncss.org /KKC2003   (5943 words)

  
 The Seattle Times: Seattle History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
BOB SANTOS: Under his leadership as Director of the International District Improvement Association in the 1970s and 80s, the Chinatown-International District was revitalized with new low-income housing and social services for the Asian American community.
Upon her retirement in 1989, she was nominated by President Reagan to become the U.S. Marshal for the Western District of Washington State.
Although at the time it was against the law for Japanese to own land, live in certain areas of Seattle or become naturalized U.S. citizens, Chojiro still managed to help many immigrants arriving from Japan with their immigration papers.
seattletimes.nwsource.com /news/local/seattle_history/nominees   (19871 words)

  
 Honolulu Star-Bulletin Obituaries
Born in Hiroshima, Japan, she is survived by sons Isamu and James K., daughters Nancy U. Karimoto and Judy Y. Wong, sister Kiyo Yamasaki, five grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
Born in Honolulu, he is survived by son Robert K. Jr.; daughters Frances Silva, Mary Maghamil and Noela Arruda; brother Ralph; companion Pauline Aki; 13 grandchildren; and 13 great-grandchildren.
George D. Swain, 64, of Kailua, a retired Chief U.S. Marshal for District of Hawaii and South Pacific, died Feb. 1 in Honolulu.
starbulletin.com /98/02/12/news/obits.html   (1328 words)

  
 Hiroshima - Biocrawler definition:Hiroshima - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Gar Alperovitz, The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb, ISBN 067976285X
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You can find it there under the keyword Hiroshima (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroshima)The list of previous authors is available here: version history (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hiroshimaandaction=history).
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