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Daisen City is located in the centre of Akita Prefecture, Northern Japan, and is located between Iwate Prefecture in the east and Akita City in the west.
In addition to this, the construction of the Akita Shinkansen means that Tokyo is within a days travel, making Daisen City an easily accessible and diverse area.
Daisen City was formed in 2004 as the result of the merging of 6 towns, cities, and villages.
www.city.daisen.akita.jp /content/for_english/whereisdaisen.html   (254 words)

  
 Acidophilus notes | 20:10   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Located in the north of Honshū Island, Akita Prefecture faces the Sea of Japan in the west and is bordered by Aomori in the north, Iwate in the east, Miyagi in the south east, and Yamagata in the south.
Akita is renowned for having the highest consumption of sake in Japan.
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www.acidophiluseffects.com /notes/?title=Akita_Prefecture   (903 words)

  
 Government Akita Prefectures Japan Asia Regional
The move by the Japanese Red Cross Akita Hospital may spark public attention while the national government and medical groups are examining whether to produce...
The way she pronounces the phrase "monkey-boy" while insulting Akita and his pals...
Daisen municipal government officials also did not meet the boy as they...
www.iaswww.com /ODP/Regional/Asia/Japan/Prefectures/Akita/Government   (399 words)

  
 Akita Prefecture - Cassiopedia, The True Encyclopedia
The famous Heian period waka poet, Ono no Komachi, is said to have been born here (but the true location of her birth is uncertain).
Located in the north of Honshu Island, Akita Prefecture faces the Sea of Japan in the west and is bordered by Aomori in the north, Iwate in the east, Miyagi in the south east, and Yamagata in the south.
Akita Prefecture is rectangular in shape, roughly 181 km from north to south and 111 km from west to east.
www.cassiopedia.org /wiki/index.php?title=Akita_Prefecture   (701 words)

  
 Akita Training
Akita (秋田, "autumn ricefield") is a Japanese surname and the name of serveral places, primarily of Akita Prefecture and Akita-shi, the capital of that prefecture.
Akita Inu (秋田犬) is a breed of dog that originated in that region.
Although the AKC has put the Akita in the Working Group, historically, the Akita was used as a hound to run large game, such as bears, in the mountainous areas of Japan.
www.artistbooking.com /trips/3/akita-training.html   (677 words)

  
 Akita Prefecture - Virtual Japan
Akita Prefecture (秋田県) is located in the Tohoku region on the island of Honshu.
Some of the greatest industries of Akita are the oil, wood working, metal working, and silk production.
Many of the largest companies in these industries are producing enough to be imported in to countries all over the world.
virtualjapan.com /wiki/Akita_Prefecture   (198 words)

  
 Anti-child abuse law failing to achieve aims : National : DAILY YOMIURI ONLINE (The Daily Yomiuri)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
In the Daisen case, in which 4-year-old Ryosuke Shindo was found dead in October, the prefectural central children's consultation center was first told of abuse by his mother, Mika Shindo, in July 2004.
The case was later referred to a social welfare center in Katagami, Akita Prefecture, where her parents lived, and then referred again to another social welfare center in Daisen, to which the mother and the son moved.
Daisen municipal government officials also did not meet the boy as they judged he was not being abused after contacting a nursery school he attended about five times.
www.yomiuri.co.jp /dy/national/20061123TDY03003.htm   (1053 words)

  
 AKITA HOTELS & TRAVEL GUIDE
Akita (秋田市; Akita-shi) is the capital city of Akita Prefecture in the Tohoku region of Japan.
Akita is famous for its Onsen (hot springs) in and around Akita, plus its close proximity to the ski fields.
While the modern city was officially founded on April 1, 1889, Akita has been one of the most important cities in the Tohoku region since the medieval period.
www.japaneselifestyle.com.au /travel/akita.htm   (553 words)

  
 JNTO Website | Find a Location | Akita
Akita Prefecture is situated in the northeastern part of the Japanese main island.
Akita has many traditional festivities and unique events throughout the year and you should not miss any of them.
There are the Akita Kanto-matsuri Festival which represents the Tohoku region (northeastern region), Kamakura (snow huts) Festival in Yokote City, and the Namahage-Sedo Festival in Oga City, an event during which people dressed as demons knock on doors to visit houses to bless people on a winter night.
www.jnto.go.jp /eng/location/regional/akita   (316 words)

  
 SAKE / Skyward Sake Series [ Akita ]
Far from the major urban centers of the country, Akita is a place of great natural beauty and old Japanese culture.
Not far from Kakunodate is the pleasant city of Daisen, and this is a place where Akita's cuisine can be enjoyed.
Notable among sake makers is Akita Seishu Brewery, a Daisen company that produces two very different kinds of sake.
www.jal.com /en/sake/skyward/akita.html   (310 words)

  
 MSN-Mainichi Daily News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The irrigation canal in the Akita Prefecture city of Daisen where 4-year-old Ryosuke Shindo was found dead.
DAISEN, Akita -- A woman under arrest along with her boyfriend for suffocating her son to death had been ordered by the man to hit the victim after the boy talked loudly while they were on a date, police said.
Prefectural police investigators said they assaulted the victim in a fist of rage, noting that they committed the crime in a parking lot that can be easily seen by other people and that she abandoned him near her home.
mdn.mainichi-msn.co.jp /national/news/p20061114p2a00m0na003000c.html   (325 words)

  
 Acidophilus notes | 20:10   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Akita is within proximity of the most important oil fields in Japan.
Akita is also home to two regional banks that serve Akita prefecture and the greater Tohoku region: Akita Bank and Hokuto Bank.
August 14, 1945: 137 people are killed in an air raid of 134 B-29s, attacking the city from midnight to the early dawn of August 15.
www.acidophiluseffects.com /notes/?title=Akita_(city)   (539 words)

  
 Akita Shinkansen
Akita Shinkansen Shinkansen 1435 mm 25 kV 50 Hz AC
There is one single track for each gauge on 39 km of the section, the remaining 13 km have one single standard gauge track and one single mixed gauge track, allowing the Shinkansen trains to meet each other.
IGR Iwate Ginga Tetsudō, JR East Akita Shinkansen, JR East Tōhoku, JR East Tōhoku Shinkansen, JR East Yamada
bae.se /kitayama/shinakita.htm   (241 words)

  
 Akita Prefecture   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Akita Prefecture (&31179;&30000;&30476;; Akita-ken) is located in the Tohoku region of northern Japan.
A ninth district, Kawabe including the Towns of Kawabe and Yuwa, merged into the city of Akita on January 11, 2005.
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akita-prefecture.iqnaut.net   (380 words)

  
 Japan Today - News - Akita woman, boyfriend indicted over killing of woman's son
Akita woman, boyfriend indicted over killing of woman's son
Public prosecutors on Monday indicted a woman in Daisen, Akita Prefecture, and her boyfriend on charges of killing the woman's 4-year-old son in October.
The two are believed to have beaten the boy as he cried in the car where they were having a ride the previous day.
www.japantoday.com /jp/news/392364   (236 words)

  
 Japan- Jizake Special Tokubetsu Junmai
It symbolizes the stately characteristics worthy of the Akita Prefecture.
It uses Miyama Nishiki, the ideal rice for sake brewing, and exhibits a distinctly mellow and noble taste.
Pure mountain water from the Daisen streams and highly polished rice are conbined to make a purely natural sake.
www.goldeneagletrading.com /japan/woj/woj-tokubetsu.html   (347 words)

  
 Woman, boyfriend busted for murder after her son was found dead in canal - MSN-Mainichi Daily News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Investigators examine the irrigation canal in Daisen on Oct. 24, the day after Ryosuke Shindo was found dead there.
DAISEN, Akita -- A woman and her boyfriend were arrested Monday for murdering her infant son, who was found dead in an irrigation canal near his home here late last month, police said.
Mika Shindo, 31, a jobless woman, and Hiroshi Hatakeyama, 43, a part-time janitor at Akita Prefectural Odate High School, are accused of suffocating her 4-year-old son, Ryosuke, to death.
202.221.31.91 /national/news/20061113p2a00m0na006000c.html   (449 words)

  
 Taxus caespitosa
This is evident in herbarium specimens by the one-sided development of branchlets, which includes specimens from the type locality, Mt. Daisen, obtained by Wilson and by Makino.
However, the cultivars referred to this variety are not prostrate shrubs, and do not show the small seeds as seen in specimens of wild plants.
Japan—Honshu: Mt. Daisen, 2000 m, [forms a dense scrub] dense shrub, 1–2 m [covering large areas on the wind-swept middle and upper slopes], 30 Nov. 1914, Wilson s.n.
www.worldbotanical.com /taxus_caespitosa.htm   (3078 words)

  
 Akita Prefecture - Virtual Japan Wiki
Akita Prefecture (秋田県) is located in the Tohoku region on the island of Honshu.
Lake Tazawa is 423.4 meters deep, making it the deepest lake in Japan.
This page was last modified 17:12, 15 October 2006.
www.virtualjapan.com /wiki/Akita_Prefecture   (92 words)

  
 Akita travel guide - Wikitravel
Asia : East Asia : Japan : Honshu : Tohoku : Akita
Akita prefecture (秋田県 Akita-ken) is in the northeastern Tohoku region of the main Japanese island Honshu.
Akita is the original home of the Akita dog (Akita inu), the famously loyal dog of Hachiko fame.
wikitravel.org /en/Akita_(prefecture)   (115 words)

  
 Kitaakita District, Akita - Cassiopedia, The True Encyclopedia
Kitaakita District, Akita - Cassiopedia, The True Encyclopedia
Kitaakita (北秋田郡; -gun) is a district located in Akita, Japan.
As of 2003, the district has an estimated population of 3,145 and a density of 12.25 persons per km².
www.cassiopedia.org /wiki/index.php?title=Kitaakita_District,_Akita   (103 words)

  
 Switching to Olanzapine After Unsuccessful Treatment With Risperidone During the First Episode of Schizophrenia: An ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
From the Yuri Kumiai General Hospital, Honjoh, Akita (Drs.
Takahashi and Kamata); the Department of Psychiatry, Nagoya University School of Medicine, Nagoya, Aichi (Dr. Yoshida); the Department of Psychiatry, Tokyo Women's Medical University, Tokyo (Dr. Ishigooka); and Omagari City Hospital, Daisen, Akita (Dr. Higuchi), Japan.
Corresponding author and reprints: Hitoshi Takahashi, M.D., Yuri Kumiai General Hospital, 38 yago, kawaguchi, Honjoh, Akita, 015-8511, Japan (e-mail: takahashi_h1969@yahoo.co.jp).
www.psychiatrist.com /abstracts/200610/100613.htm   (439 words)

  
 Akita, Akita - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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January 11, 2005: Kawabe, Yuwa (this merger placed the former Kawabe District in Akita)
Ōu Main Line: Ōbarino, Wada, Yotsugoya, (Akita Service Center), Akita, (Akita Freight Station), (Akita General Service Center: Adjacent to Tsuchizaki, branches to the right hand side before the station), Tsuchizaki, Kami-Iijima, Oiwake
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Akita,_Akita   (452 words)

  
 Daisen, JPN Weather - Forecasts, Radar Maps, Video, and News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Daisen, JPN Weather - Forecasts, Radar Maps, Video, and News
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 Display Calendar
Tohoku area (Aomori / Akita / Iwate / Yamagata / Miyagi)
Akita Shinkansen line, fifteen minutes on foot, nearby Omono riv
High quarity 12 inches shell and creative new type starmines are exibit by about 30 excellent fireworks factories.
www.japan-fireworks.com /calendar/ecalendar.html   (824 words)

  
 Akita boy beaten before he died : National : DAILY YOMIURI ONLINE (The Daily Yomiuri)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Akita boy beaten before he died : National : DAILY YOMIURI ONLINE (The Daily Yomiuri)
A woman from Daisen, Akita Prefecture, and her boyfriend, who were arrested on suspicion of murdering the woman's 4-year-old son last month, told police they beat the boy before he died because he cried when the couple were about to part after a date, sources said Tuesday.
After the beating, 31-year-old Mika Shindo allegedly took her son Ryosuke, who was unconscious at that time from the abuse, in her car to an irrigation ditch near her home and left him there, where he died.
www.yomiuri.co.jp /dy/national/20061115TDY02004.htm   (279 words)

  
 Woman under arrest for killing son was ordered by boyfriend to abandon body - MSN-Mainichi Daily News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Woman under arrest for killing son was ordered by boyfriend to abandon body
DAISEN, Akita -- A woman under arrest along with her boyfriend for murdering her son was ordered by the man to abandon the victim after hitting him, investigators said.
It was earlier learned that the woman hit her son on the orders of her boyfriend because the child yelled out during their date.
202.221.31.91 /national/news/20061115p2a00m0na011000c.html   (417 words)

  
 Infant Boy Shoes - Boy Info from Zxehome.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Foul play suspected after infant boy found dead ín canal
DAISEN, Akita -- An infant bóy who was found dead ín an irrigation canal here Monday night may have been caught up ín foul play, investigators said.
LUMBERTON, NC -- The search for a missing mother and her infant son ended Friday They had been abducted yesterday by the bóy's father, 21-year-old Sergio
www.zxehome.com /doc02202--Infant-Boy-Shoes.html   (282 words)

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