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	Hokkaido - Free net encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Hokkaido Template:Audio (北海道 Hokkaidō, literal meaning: "North Sea Route", Ainu: Mosir), formerly known as Ezo, is the second largest island and largest prefecture of Japan.
		Image:Sounkyo1.jpg Image:Hokkaido satellite image.JPG Hokkaido Island is located at the north end of Japan, near Russia, and has coastlines on the Sea of Japan, the Sea of Okhotsk, and the Pacific Ocean.
		An earthquake of magnitude 8.0 struck near the island on September 25, 2003 at 19:50:07 (UTC).
	www.netipedia.com /index.php/Hokkaido_prefecture (1338 words)

	Hokkaido - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Hokkaido is one of the major fishing centers of the world.
		The island is the chief winter resort and sports area in Japan; the 1972 Winter Olympics were held there, at Sapporo.
		The island was originally inhabited by Ainu, aborigines of uncertain ancestry.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-hokkaido.html (617 words)

	Hokkaido, History, Travel, Geography, Weather, Population (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Hokkaido has a special status in Japan, both politically (it is not an ordinary prefecture), and in the heart of the Japanese.
		Hokkaido is the northernmost island of Japan and accounts for more than one fifth of the nation's total land area and is the largest prefecture in Japan.
		Hokkaido is surrounded entirely by sea, the Pacific Ocean, the Sea of Japan and the Sea of Okhotsk.
	www.hokkaidoinfo.net (2006 words)

	Lighthouses of Northeastern Hokkaido
		Hokkaido is the northernmost of the four main islands of Japan.
		The island is accessible by ferry from Wakkanai or Otaru.
		The Island Breakwater is a detached breakwater sheltering the city's new south harbor.
	www.unc.edu /~rowlett/lighthouse/jphk.htm (4700 words)

	NOVA \| Transcripts \| Island of the Spirits \| PBS
		Hokkaido sits on the same latitude as France, yet its climate is far more severe.
		As winter loosens its grip on Hokkaido's shores, the pack ice splinters and melts, pulling the rug from under the swans.
		Hokkaido brown frogs, which have spent the winter under snow, now gather to mate and spawn.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/nova/transcripts/2614hokkaido.html (3151 words)

	Mitoku Hokkaido Azuki aka Aduki Beans 1 lb. Bag
		Hokkaido azuki bean juice, (the liquid in the pot from long-term cooking) is very beneficial for the kidneys and years ago literally saved my father's life.
		Hokkaido beans are cultivated in the mud banks between the paddies and are harvested after the rice.
		The Mitoku Hokkaido beans we import are grown by a small family farm that has been dedicated to sustainable agriculture for many generations, however they are not certified organic as they are too small to incur the cost of official international organic certification.
	www.simply-natural.biz /Hokkaido_Azuki_Beans.php (352 words)

	Wikinfo \| Hokkaido prefecture
		The largest city on Hokkaido is Sapporo, which is the capital of Hokkaido prefecture.
		Hokkaido has been the homeland of the Ainu race since time immemorial.
		Hokkaido can also be reached by ferry from Tokyo and Niigata.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Hokkaido_prefecture (470 words)

	Echinococcosis multilocularis
		In this short review of Echinococcus multilocularis in the island of Hokkaido, we describe the life cycle and epidemiology of the parasite and how it was introduced to Hokkaido by a single infected red fox from Russia in 1924.
		Since then, it has spread all over the island and from the end of 1997, 373 persons had undergone surgery, and from 5 to 20 new patients are confirmed each year.
		In 1992 of 42 rats captured at garbage dumps in southern Hokkaido, one was infected (12).
	www.isrvma.org /article/55_2_5.htm (1398 words)

	Hokkaidō - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Hokkaidō Island is located at the north end of Japan, near Russia, and has coastlines on the Sea of Japan, the Sea of Okhotsk, and the Pacific Ocean.
		Unlike the other major islands of Japan, Hokkaidō is normally not affected by the June-July rainy season and the relative lack of humidity and typically warm, rather than hot, summer weather makes its climate an attraction for tourists from other parts of Japan.
		The Hokkaido Prefectural Board of Education oversees public schools in Hokkaidō.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hokkaido_prefecture (1731 words)

	Hokkaido Guide - All Hokkaido Travel Information & Forum
		Hokkaido is a sport and nature lovers paradise and also offers some of the largest and most beautiful cities in Japan.
		Hokkaido offers the spectacular Sapporo Snow Festival, skiing and snow boarding mountains, river rafting, hiking and hundreds of wonderful and relaxing Japanese style “Onsens” or natural hot spring baths.
		Hokkaido is the most northern island of Japan Lying between longitude 41°21' and latitude 45° 33' North.
	www.hokkaidoguide.com (467 words)

	Hokkaido travel guide - Wikitravel
		Hokkaido is by far Japan's largest prefecture, consisting of Japan's entire northern island and its surrounding islets.
		Hokkaido is cooler than the rest of Japan, and the merciful lack of Japan's muggy summers and rainy season makes it a very popular domestic destination between May and August.
		Hokkaido is not (yet) linked to the Shinkansen high speed network, but night sleeper trains from Tokyo are a popular option.
	wikitravel.org /en/Hokkaido (1670 words)

	Tsunami Devastates Japanese Coastal Region
		A view of tsunami damage from the east of Aonae, a small town on the island of Okushiri, which is in the Sea of Japan, east of Hokkaido.
		Hardest hit was the town of Aonae (population 1600), where the first tsunami wave flooded the southern tip of the island and the entire first row of houses in the harbor area within 4-5 minutes after the main shock (Figures 1 and 2).
		The eastern side of Okushiri Island was less affected, where the tsunami runup was between 2 and 5 m.
	nctr.pmel.noaa.gov /okushiri_devastation.html (1813 words)

	Hokkaido Travel Guide
		Hokkaido is the second largest, northernmost and least developed of Japan's four main islands.
		Hokkaido's weather is harsh in winter with lots of snowfall, below zero temperatures and frozen seas, while in summer, it does not get as hot and humid as in the other parts of the country.
		With its unspoiled nature, Hokkaido attracts many outdoor lovers, including skiers and snowboarders in the colder seasons and hikers, cyclists and campers from June to September.
	www.japan-guide.com /list/e1101.html (125 words)

	Getting to know Japan's farthest-north island - Hokkaido Sunset - Find Articles
		Hokkaido may well be the only part of Japan where visitors from the American West feel more at home than do visitors from Tokyo or Osaka.
		This northernmost island was Japan's frontier, settled in the mid-1800s by pioneers drawn by prospects of fortunes in timber, farming, fishing, gold.
		All over Hokkaido, scenes of livestock and vegetable farms counterpoint the conical volcanic mountains that attest to the island's violent evolution.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1216/is_v174/ai_3707524 (818 words)

	Hi from Hokkaido,
		The island of Hokkaido is shaped like a Klingon warship or, to use a non-alien metaphor, a tailless stingray with a wounded starboard wing.
		Hokkaido had not been on the initial itinerary of this trip, which focused on France and Spain.
		Part of this is a dedicated cycling path south to Tomakomai, then along the coast toward the boot of Hokkaido, the southwest peninsula that encompasses Hakodate, the finest urban specimen on the island.
	www.agelastos.com /euro2001/euro7.html (4562 words)

	Randy's 'Favorite Getaways in Rural Japan' p 9
		Hokkaido is Japan's northernmost large island, a little more than 30 miles (50 kilometers) north of the main island of Honshu, and has a suitably harsh climate for three seasons of the year.
		Hokkaido is a bit far away for a week-end getaway, but it's the kind of big scenic country that is fun to explore by car, and that's how I did it.
		Hokkaido was the last refuge of the Ainu people who were eventually driven out of northern Honshu Island by the Japanese in feudal days.
	www.ease.com /~randyj/rjjapan6.htm (6361 words)

	SailorChibiMoon.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Hokkaido is the northern most of Japan's four largest islands.
		Hokkaido is connected to Honshu, the largest Island, by a railroad tunnel, and the capital of Hokkaido, Sapporo, has an international airport.
		Before the island of Hokkaido became a part of Japan in the 1860's, it was inhabited by the Ainu people, who had a lifestyle similar to that of the Native Americans.
	www.sailorchibimoon.com /info/exploringjapan/hokkaido.htm (230 words)

	Earthquake and Tsunami of October 4, 1994 IN THE KURIL ISLANDS - Dr. George Pararas-Carayannis
		Kuril island arc is located between the Kamchatka Peninsula and the Japanese island of Hokkaido.
		Sakhalin island, north of Hokkaido, which separates the Sea of Japan from the Sea of Okhotsk is probably the result of transpressional tectonics along the North America-Eurasia boundary.
		According to reports, Shikotan Island was one of the hardest-hit areas by both the earthquake and the tsunami.
	www.drgeorgepc.com /Tsunami1994RussiaKurils.html (4285 words)

	Hokkaido inu (Hokkaido dog, Ainu dog, Ainu ken)
		Hokkaido during the Kamakura era (in the 1140s), when exchanges were developing between Hokkaido and the Tohoku District.
		who were driven to the remote northern island of Hokkaido on the arrival of the Yamato people.
		The physique of the Hokkaido enables it to withstand severe cold and heavy snowfalls.
	japanesedogs.bulldoginformation.com /hokkaido-ainu-inu.html (452 words)

	Hakodate City, Hokkaido
		Hakodate City is located near the southern tip of the island of Hokkaido across the Tsugaru Strait from the main island of Honshu.
		During the Edo period, Hakodate was primarily a small fishing village, and the largest Japanese settlement on the island (then called Ezo) was the feudal domain centered on the town of Matsumae.
		In 1868, when the Meiji Restoration led to the overthrow of the Tokugawa Shogunate, loyalist rebels fled to Hokkaido and used Fort Goryokaku as their headquarters in the resulting civil war against the Imperial forces.
	www.yamasa.org /japan/english/destinations/hokkaido/hakodate.html (2766 words)

	CNN.com - Earthquake rocks northern Japan - Sep. 26, 2003
		An earthquake measuring 8.0 hit the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido early Friday, forcing thousands to evacuate and prompting authorities to issue tsunami warnings that extend as far as Hawaii.
		A fire broke out at oil refinery on the island after the earthquake, and television stations reported a train derailment and a landslide near a highway tunnel.
		The September 20 earthquake was centered nearly 870 kilometers (540 miles) south-southeast of Tokyo, near Japan's Bonin Islands, a remote volcanic island group in the Pacific Ocean.
	www.cnn.com /2003/WORLD/asiapcf/east/09/25/japan.earthquake/index.html (581 words)

	10-06-03 EARTHQUAKE ILLUSTRATES CHALLENGE OF PREDICTING TSUNAMIS
		CORVALLIS - The large 8.0 earthquake that recently struck near Japan's northern island of Hokkaido caused only a fairly ordinary tsunami about four meters high - and in the process, it provided a powerful illustration of the uncertainty in predicting these deadly ocean events and the threats they pose.
		"This seismic event and tsunami near Hokkaido Island should provide some excellent data to improve our research," said Harry Yeh, an international expert in tsunamis, holder of the Edwards Chair in the OSU College of Engineering, and researcher at OSU's new Tsunami Wave Basin.
		In 1994, another major earthquake of 8.1 magnitude struck the Kuril Islands northeast of Japan, and concerns about a possible tsunami led to the evacuation of Honolulu in Hawaii - but the actual wave that resulted there was almost nonexistent.
	oregonstate.edu /dept/ncs/newsarch/2003/Oct03/hokkaido.htm (821 words)

	Yagishiri Island: Hokkaido Pictures
		A small island off the coast of Hokkaido near Rumoi, Yagishiri was a wonderful getaway from the cars and lights that seem to overwhelm the "mainland"
		At the campsite, notice the other island in the background; that is Teuri Island, Yagishiri's twin.
		Because of this there is virtually no traffic on the island (though some of the people that live on this island do have cars, the little village is small enough most people jsut walk).
	galileo.spaceports.com /~luap/yagishiri.htm (155 words)

	Hokkaido bird watching and wildflower Japan Tour by toursgallery
		Sixty-eight percent of Japan is covered by forest and almost all the remaining virgin forest is in Hokkaido, mostly subarctic coniferous and cool temperate broad-leafed deciduous.
		Between Hokkaido and Honshu the Tsugaru Strait forms a zoo- geographical border called the Blakistone Line, the southern limit of northern species, notably White-tailed Eagle, Japanese Crane, Blakiston's Fish Owl, Grey-headed Woodpecker and Pine Grosbeak.
		Rarely visited by foreign tourists this is a vast island of wild coastal cliffs, extensive marshlands and forested mountains, a wonderful resource for birds, plants, animals and photogenic natural scenery.
	www.toursgallery.com /hokkaido.htm (745 words)

	CNN.com - Transcripts
		The northern island of Hokkaido in Japan, is this a heavily populated area Rebecca?
		It is not as well populated as the main island of Honshu (ph) which is where Tokyo and Japan's largest cities are located; however, you do have cities of tens of thousands of people along that coastal area that we're talking about.
		There are several million people living on Hokkaido itself and certainly along that coast there's one fishing city that I've actually been to where you have a lot of facilities, both for fishing and residences very close to the sea.
	cnnstudentnews.cnn.com /TRANSCRIPTS/0309/25/wbr.00.html (6220 words)

	Planet Ark : Strong Quakes Hit Japanese Island of Hokkaido
		The meteorological agency issued a tsunami warning for the coastal areas in eastern and central Hokkaido and a tsunami alert for the coastal areas in western Hokkaido as well as the northern Japanese prefectures of Aomori, Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima.
		Hokkaido, about the size of Austria, is the second largest of Japan's four main islands and is home to a nuclear reactor and active volcanoes.
		The island, which has a population of more than 5 million, was hit by the tail end of a typhoon last month.
	www.planetark.com /dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/22370/story.htm (623 words)

	Visible Earth: Hokkaido Island, Japan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Hokkaido Island is home to the city of Sapporo, which is located on the lower western side near where the island’s tail begins to curve south toward the main island of Japan (middle lower left) and not far from the Ishikari-wan, the north-facing bay that has a streak of clouds moving horizontally across it.
		Hokkaido’s northern point reaches toward the Russian island of Sakhalin (top center), while the eastern point stretches toward the Kuril Islands, a volcanic chain that eventually connects to the Russian Kamchatka Peninsula.
		Between Hokkaido’s northern and eastern points lies the southern reaches of the Sea of Okhotsk (upper right), while the northern and southern points lie along the Sea of Japan.
	visibleearth.nasa.gov /view_rec.php?id=4720 (179 words)

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