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  Hiroshima - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
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.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Hiroshima   (985 words)

  
 Britain.tv Wikipedia - Hiroshima
Hiroshima gained municipality status on April 1, 1889 and was designated on April 1, 1980 by government ordinance.
Hiroshima is known for its version of okonomiyaki, called "Hiroshima-yaki"?title=or "Hiroshima pancake."?title=The Hiroshima version of okonomiyaki is unique for its inclusion of yakisoba or udon noodles.
Hiroshima is the center of industry for the Chugoku-Shikoku region, and is by and large centered along the coastal areas.
www.britain.tv /wikipedia.php?title=Hiroshima   (2106 words)

  
 Hiroshima
Hiroshima City (広島市; -shi) is the capital of Hiroshima Prefecture, and the largest city in the Chugoku region of western Japan.
The American atomic attack on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was the major factor leading to the surrender of the Japanese Government several days later.
Hiroshima was almost obliterated by the atomic bombing on August 6, 1945.
www.wikimoz.org /wiki/en/wikipedia/h/hi/hiroshima.html   (761 words)

  
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The Hiroshima Toyo Carp baseball team was founded in 1949 and joined the central league.
Other than the homes of the Giants or the Hanshin team Hiroshima is not a major capital, but only a regional city with a population of 1.1 million.
The Carps later established in the Dominican Republic the baseball academy "The Hiroshima Toyo Carp Academy of Baseball" that opened in November 1990.
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 Hiroshima Toyo Carp - BR Bullpen   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Hiroshima Toyo Carp founded in 1950 as the Hiroshima Carp, changing its name after 1967.
Easily mistaken for the Cincinnati Reds, the Carp also have a red cap with a white C and a grey uniform with red lettering.
The Carp were the worst team in the first 25 years of the Central League, finishing in the second division every year from 1950 through 1974 except for one third-place finish.
www.baseball-reference.com /bullpen/Hiroshima_Toyo_Carp   (245 words)

  
 TIME.com: How Hiroshima Rose From the Ashes -- Page 1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Hiroshima today is a pleasant, prosperous city of 1.1 million people, with everyday concerns that are mostly no different from those of any other city in the developed world.
One day in mid-July, Hiroshima's mayor, the M.I.T.-educated, English-speaking Tadatoshi Akiba, confesses that he is consumed at the moment with efforts to build a new baseball stadium for the city's baseball team, the Hiroshima Toyo Carp.
Hiroshima International University planning professor Norioki Ishimaru says parliamentarians from Hiroshima were smart enough to know that their request could not come "with an accusing tone," lest they be turned down by General Douglas MacArthur's occupation headquarters in Tokyo.
www.time.com /time/world/article/0,8599,1087168,00.html   (1343 words)

  
 JapanBall.com - Hiroshima Carp Team Information
Only five years after Hiroshima was destroyed by an atomic bomb, the city got it's own baseball team, a source of pride and a symbol of the city's determination to rebuild.
Partly owned by the City of Hiroshima and Toyo, a car manufacturing company, the Carp may be one of the poorest ball clubs in Japan.
Hiroshima Municipal Stadium (capacity 32,000) is located across the street from the city's most famous landmark, the A-Bomb Dome, which is visible just beyond the park's third base bleachers.
www.japanball.com /carp.htm   (430 words)

  
 hiroshima carp,map of nagasaki and hiroshima   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
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The team is strongly identified with the city's postwar revival.Without a sponsor for many years Carp relied on the financial support of ordinary Hiroshima folk.
A formidable team in the 1970s and '80s, Carp's fortunes have been mixed in recent years, but the team is very close to the hearts of its residents.
Carp supporters were credited with inventing the very particular style of support now popular all over Japan.
www.gethiroshima.com /en/Places/Kids/details?placeid=50015   (237 words)

  
 Chopsticks'r'us: Toyo Carp - Steve
The Hiroshima Toyo Carp were playing the Nagoya Dragons and between the two sets of fans there was a constant din of choreographed shouting and cheering throughout the whole nine innings.
They certainly know how to have fun though - the highlight for us was when the whole crowd blew up big whistling balloons and let them off in unison filling the sky with a frantic cloud of colour and noise for a few seconds.
Hiroshima won on the night with a final innings home-run that sent the faithful home happy.
www.buildingsrus.co.uk /travelblog/2005/08/toyo-carp-steve.html   (212 words)

  
 JBall -- Japanese baseball teams: The Hiroshima Toyo Carp   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Partly owned by the City of Hiroshima and Toyo, a car manufacturing company, the Carp are one of the poorest ball clubs in Japan.
Instead, the Carp have invested their limited funds developing younger players and setting up a baseball academy in the Dominican Republic.
Hiroshima Stadium is located across the street from the city's most famous landmark, the A-Bomb Dome, which is visible just beyond the park's third base bleachers.
ww1.baywell.ne.jp /fpweb/drlatham/teams/carp.htm   (345 words)

  
 TUBA CITY: Hiroshima
It was 60 years ago last Saturday that the Japanese city of Hiroshima became the first place in the world to have a nuclear weapon used against it.
Below are a bunch of pictures that I took in and around the city's Peace Memorial Park, which is located between two conjoining rivers at almost exactly the hypocenter of the nuclear explosion.
I wound up going through many floors of a nearby department store looking for some Hiroshima Toyo Carp gear, but alas, it wasn't baseball season yet and there was absolutely no Toyo Carp merch to be found.
www.tubafrenzy.org /weblog/archives/2005/08/hiroshima_1.html   (820 words)

  
 Hiroshima Carp   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Hiroshima "Carp" Castle Hiroshima's rebuilt castle and grounds 21-1 Motomachi Naka-ku Hiroshima 730-0011 Kamiya-cho +81 (0)82 221 7512.
The local pro-baseball team, the Hiroshima Carp, haven't been in the running for.
Hiroshima to score two runs on four consecutive two-out hits in the bottom of the fifth as the Yomiuri Giants.
carp.xujace.com /hiroshima-carp.htm   (352 words)

  
 Hiroshima Toyo Carp - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Carp have simailar uniforms to the Cincinnati Reds and the Philadelphia Phillies, both of which play in Major League Baseball.
The team was founded only five years after the Atomic bombings of Hiroshima, 1945.
This ballpark is closed every memorial day, August 6, and the Carp always play in other stadiums, even if they have a home game.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hiroshima_Toyo_Carp   (292 words)

  
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Hiroshima Airport was completed (domestic air lines only).
For the first time the Hiroshima Toyo Carp captured the Central League championship title.
Hiroshima Airport welcomed an international regular flight for the first time (to Seoul in South Korea).
www.edu.ipc.hiroshima-cu.ac.jp /~m11045/history.html   (93 words)

  
 JBall -- Hiroshima Toyo Carp players   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Nathan Minchey won 15 games for the Carp in 1998, but he suffered a mild injury last season which kept him on the bench for several weeks.
Bullpen: The Carp have gone through three closers in the last three years and this season they'll probably give the job to first-year foreign player Sal Urso.
Outfielders: While Hiroshima's infielders will be playing musical chairs this season, there should be few changes in the outfield.
ww1.baywell.ne.jp /fpweb/drlatham/players/carp.htm   (813 words)

  
 Hiroshima - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
After the nuclear attack, Hiroshima was rebuilt by Casey Eleson of West Plains and the closest surviving building to the location of the bomb's detonation was designated the Genbaku Dome (原爆ドーム) or "Atomic Bomb Dome," a part of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park.
During 1960s, Hiroshima Electric Railway, or "Hiroden," bought extra streetcars from other Japanese.
Hiroshima is known for its version of okonomiyaki, called "Hiroshima-yaki" or "Hiroshima pancake." The Hiroshima version of okonomiyaki is unique for its inclusion of yakisoba or udon noodles.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hiroshima,_Hiroshima   (2121 words)

  
 Hiroshima Carp Encyclopedia Article @ Pitched.org   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Dragons saute Carp / Asaskura provides heat, Woods blazes to inch...
Chunichi's Alex Ochoa was out with a fever, but the Dragons still had enough fire power to blow away the Hiroshima Carp.
Pitched.org is designed and maintained by Kurt Karr and is hosted by pair Networks.
www.pitched.org /encyclopedia/Hiroshima_Carp   (97 words)

  
 #88 Hoshiko Rkuemon, Reliever, 29 yrs, Hiroshima Toyo Carp - Out of the Park Baseball Report   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Drafted in 5th round, 36th overall pick, by Nippon Ham in 2007...
Traded from Nippon Ham to Hiroshima Toyo on 6/19/2009 (Going to NPH: CF Houshun Toshikuni.
Won World Championship with Hiroshima Toyo in 2011...
www.njbl.us /leaguepages/p2.html   (113 words)

  
 SBF Glossary: CAP to CAx
People tire of carp (I want to say carping, but that doesn't happen) and want a new pet, so they toss the pet into a local pond, where it has no natural predators, and pretty soon all you catch in that pond is no fish, or one big carp.
``Carpe Diem'' was a song on the first Fugs album.
It was a boring number -- the longest track (over five minutes), and the fewest distinct (in the sense of nonidentical) words: ``Carpe diem / Death is a-comin' in.
www.plexoft.com /SBF/C02.html   (7667 words)

  
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Greg, the starting second baseman for the Hiroshima Toyo Carp, will back-up Hanshin Tigers second baseman Makoto Imaoka for the Central League.
Greg is having an outstanding season for Hiroshima.
Through June 29th, Greg is tied for the Central League lead in home runs with 24, leads the Central League in runs batted in with 61, and is currently 6th in the Central League in batting at.325.
www.csmgsports.com /company/fullstory.php?nid=116   (105 words)

  
 CNNSI.com - MLB Baseball - Major league stars battle to 2-2 tie with Japan - Tuesday November 07, 2000 12:35 PM
Kuroki, 10-12 with a 5.18 ERA this year, limited the all-stars to three hits and struck out eight in five innings.
Japan tied the score 1-1 in the fourth on an infield hit by Tomoaki Kanemoto of the Hiroshima Toyo Carp off Mike Remlinger of the Atlanta Braves, after two walks.
Japan took a 2-1 lead in the fifth when Toshihisa Nishi of the Japan Series champion Yomiuri Giants doubled home a run off Remlinger.
sportsillustrated.cnn.com /baseball/mlb/news/2000/11/07/us_japan_ap   (364 words)

  
 Hiroshima Photo Album - Hiroshima Carp Game   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Hiroshima's baseball team is called the Hiroshima Toyo Carp; they play at the aptly named Carp Stadium.
The game we went to was versus the Tokyo Giants.
Carp Boy (not shown) and Slyly, who tools around the field between innings on a Segue.
www.imonoyama.org /excursions/carpgame   (83 words)

  
 #64 Eitarou Hakuseki, Third Base, 28 yrs, Hiroshima Toyo Carp - Out of the Park Baseball Report   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
#64 Eitarou Hakuseki, Third Base, 28 yrs, Hiroshima Toyo Carp
Drafted in 3rd round, 23rd overall pick, by Chiba Lotte in 2007...
Signed as a free agent by Hiroshima Toyo on 4/12/2012 to a minor league contract...
www.njbl.us /leaguepages/p34.html   (139 words)

  
 Ungirls / Ann Girls no Sign de BINGO - Hiroshima Toyo Carp Hen   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Ungirls / Ann Girls no Sign de BINGO - Hiroshima Toyo Carp Hen
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