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	ABC News: Tornado in Japan Kills 9, Injures 25
		Fire department official Nobuaki Ueda had no details on the severity of the injuries to the 25 people, although he said 10 were able to go the hospital on their own, while the other 15 were taken in ambulances.
		But Yukio Yoshida, a police spokesman of the Hokkaido prefectural (state) police, said one woman was later listed as unconscious at a hospital.
		Hokkaido is the northernmost of Japan's four main islands.
	abcnews.go.com /International/wireStory?id=2635065&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312 (454 words)

	Hokkaido
		Matsumae, Matsumae, Hokkaido Matsumae, Matsumae, Hokkaido is a Matsumae Castle, unusual for Hokkaido.
		Monbetsu, Hokkaido Monbetsu (紋別市; -shi) is a Sea of Okhotsk.
		Utashinai, Hokkaido Utashinai (歌志内市; -shi) is a Hokkaido.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /topics/hokkaido.html (218 words)

	Charm of Hokkaido
		The Kuromatsunai area at the base of the Oshima Peninsula in southern Hokkaido is a border of vegetation zones.
		It is distributed widely in southern Hokkaido, and its southern limit is the Chinai River on the Oshima Peninsula.
		The northern limit of this tree is the Kuromatsunai lowlands in southern Hokkaido.
	kanko.pref.hokkaido.jp /kankodb/foreign/e/nat_c001.htm (473 words)

	Shimbun
		Chunichi Shimbun Chunichi Shimbun (中日新聞) is a Aichi prefecture and neighbor regions.
		Sangyou Keizai Shimbun The Sangyou Keizai Shimbun is a published by Nikkei of the Nihon_Keizai_Shimbun.
		Yomiuri Shimbun The Yomiuri Shimbun (読売新聞) is a Japanese newspaper, circulating 10,180,981 c...
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /topics/shimbun.html (134 words)

	wiki/Hokkaido Island Definition / wiki/Hokkaido Island Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		In 1869, Hokkaido was divided into 11 provinces and 86 districts A district (郡; gun) was the administrative unit during the period from 1890 to 1923, which is roughly equivalent to the county of the United States, and was ranked at the level below prefecture and above city, town or village....
		Hokkaido is known for its cool summers (which attract many tourists from other parts of Japan) and icy winters.
		Hokkaido can also be reached by ferry from SendaiSendai (仙台市; -shi) is the capital city of Miyagi Prefecture, Japan and the largest city in the Tohoku region.
	www.elresearch.com /wiki/Hokkaido_Island (5573 words)

	Hokkaido University Definition / Hokkaido University Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		Hokkaido University (北海道大学; Hokkaido Daigaku, or Hokudai), located in Sapporo, Hokkaido, is one of the leading national universities of JapanJapan (日本, Nippon/Nihon, literally "the origin of the sun") is a country east of the Asian continent on the western edge of the Pacific Ocean.
		The largest of the islands (known as the Home Islands) are, from north to south, Hokkaido (北海道), Honshu (本州, the largest island), Shikoku (四国), and Kyushu (九州).
		The university was founded as Hokkaido Imperial University (北海道帝国大学; Hokkaido Teikoku Daigaku) on April 1, 1918 Events January-February January 8 - President Woodrow Wilson announces his "Fourteen Points" for the aftermath of World War I. January 28 - Vladimir Lenin decrees the establishment of the Red Army.
	www.elresearch.com /Hokkaido_University (212 words)

	Chiba Information
		Hokkaido’s development began during the Meiji Period, with the promotion of the coal, agriculture, fishery and forestry industries.
		Hokkaido boasts the largest number of municipalities (212) among all of Japan’s 47 prefectures, including Ashoro Town, which has the largest land area of all of Japan’s municipalities.
		The Hokkaido Prefectural Government must embrace bold reforms to become a regional government able to respond to a new era, equipping it to effectively cope with the changing times.
	www.infoasia.co.jp /book_dvd2/hokkaidoinfo_e.html (439 words)

	Low Waves Hit Japan After Undersea Quake
		A tsunami warning posted for coastal areas of Alaska was later canceled, as were watches for Hawaii and the northern tip of British Columbia and precautionary advisories for the states of Washington, Oregon and California.
		An official from the town of Shibetsu on Hokkaido, Kiyoshi Takimoto, told public broadcaster NHK that about 4,000 of the town's 6,100 residents lived along the coast and had been told to flee to higher ground.
		An official from the Japanese town of Shibetsu on Hokkaido, Kiyoshi Takimoto, told public broadcaster NHK that about 4,000 of the town's 6,100 residents lived along the coast and had been told to flee to higher ground.
	www.softcom.net /webnews/wed/be/Ajapan-tsunami.R3pI_GNF.html (862 words)

	Lupin III Encyclopedia - Monkey Punch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		Katou Kazuhiko was born in Kiritappu Village, Hokkaido in 1937.
		When Katou graduated from junior high school, he put down "cartoonist" in a form asking him what he wanted to be; he completely ignored his teacher's advice to become a teacher in Kiritappu.
		Katou would regularly contribute drawings to various newspapers and once received 500¥ from the Hokkaido Shimbun.
	www.lupinencyclopedia.com /content/view/42/31 (529 words)

	AsiaMedia :: Story, Print Version (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		Sapporo (Kyodo) --- A newspaper in Hokkaido apologized in its Saturday edition for a report last March suggesting that a police blunder in a drug bust may have led to a large volume of amphetamines ending up in the hands of dealers.
		Mitsuru Iwata, spokesman for the Hokkaido police, meanwhile, said in a separate statement that Saturday's article falls short of the apology the police had been demanding, and it does not sufficiently correct the public's misunderstandings over the allegations.
		Hokkaido Shimbun Press ran a series of investigative reports starting in November 2003 on the misappropriation of funds through fraudulent accounting practices by Hokkaido police.
	www.asiamedia.ucla.edu /print.asp?parentid=37115 (431 words)

	asahi.com : English (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		Hokkaido and Fukuoka police will repay improperly spent slush funds of about 916 million yen and 210 million yen, respectively, to national and prefectural coffers.
		Hokkaido police chief Katsuharu Ashikari told the Hokkaido assembly Monday that police officials had built up about 1.1 billion yen in slush funds between fiscal 1998 and 2003, including the recently disclosed 25 million yen in bogus business-trip allowances.
		In the case of Hokkaido, the amassing of the slush fund was particularly rampant from fiscal 1998 to 2000, the report says.
	www.asahi.com /english/nation/TKY200411230113.html (429 words)

	Charm of Hokkaido (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		But its superlatives do not end with its vast size.
		Hokkaido was also the first place in Japan that stoves were manufactured, a cheese factory was opened and weather observation data were gathered.
		One of its air routes is the busiest of any air route in the world.
	kanko.pref.hokkaido.jp /kankodb/foreign/e/cul_d001.htm (108 words)

	Japan issues tsunami warning after quake - Boston.com
		Fishermen get ready to steam out of the port for safety at Esashicho, Hokkaido, northern Japan, Wednesday night, Nov. 15, 2006 as a tsunami alert was issued after a powerful earthquake hit off sparsely populated islands between northern Japan and the Russian Far East.
		Masayuki Kikuchi, a town official in Nemuro, in Hokkaido, said the city dispatched about 20 fire trucks and cars immediately after the tsunami alert to instruct coastal residents to evacuate to higher ground.
		Etorofu, which is about 110 miles northeast of Hokkaido, is one of four islands in the southern Kuril chain claimed by both Japan and Russia.
	www.boston.com /news/world/asia/articles/2006/11/15/small_tsunami_hits_north_japan (1032 words)

	USU VOLCANO
		University research group decided to move the Usu Volcano Observatory of Hokkaido University at the northern foot of the volcano to the western part of the Date City, about 8-km south of the former.
		Tad Ui, Univ. of Hokkaido, gave the possibilities of an eruption on the northwestern slope, the summit eruption after migration of hypocenter, and phreatic or phreatomagmatic eruption following larger earthquakes.
		Usu volcano (Hokkaido) is one of the most active volcanoes in Japan and was formed on the southern rim of the Toya Caldera around ten thousand years ago.
	hakone.eri.u-tokyo.ac.jp /vrc/erup/usu.html (3117 words)

	E-ASPAC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		The 423 Russians who were registered in Hokkaido represented about 8 percent of all registered Russian citizens in Japan, Tokyo being the only area with a larger Russian population (1,322, or 25 percent) [22].
		Eleven of the 18 international sister-city and friendship-city partnerships involving Hokkaido municipalities are with Russian counterparts in Sakhalin, reflecting the special importance Hokkaido attaches to the closest Russian territory to the north.
		Another element in the growing human contacts between Hokkaido and the Russian Far East, particularly Sakhalin, is the development of oil and gas off the eastern coast of the Russian island [46].
	mcel.pacificu.edu /easpac/2004/akaha.php3 (10455 words)

	Wiring Japan
		Last August, Nihon Keizai Shimbun, Japan’s leading business daily, working with Dentsu Inc, and IBM, unveiled one prototype for a new electronic newspaper which could be delivered to homes via cable television, telephone, or broadcast.
		Meanwhile, the Hokkaido Shimbun, a leading regional newspaper, is exploring the new technologies in cooperation with Hokkaido University and Sapporo Electronics Center Foundation.
		The system, which was demonstrated at "Database Fair in Hokkaido" last October, has attracted the attention of numerous high-tech companies because the technology involved is also applicable not only to newspapers, but also to databases.
	www2.gol.com /users/kilburn/wiring.htm (829 words)

	HIBA - November 1999 HIBA news (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		I gave a speech on Sakhalin and opportunities lost for Hokkaido Starting at 6.30 and wound up at 9.00 pm, it was attended by journalists and Government visitors.
		The nature of the Island is pretty similar to Hokkaido, it has the same trees, low mountains, birds and animals.
		The climate in the south is similar to northern Hokkaido.
	www.hiba-hokkaido.org /news1199.htm (3131 words)

	Snowball Fights - What's Cool in Japan - Kids Web Japan - Web Japan
		When the season turns to winter, tournaments are held all over Japan, especially in Hokkaido, the country's coldest and northernmost island.
		The city of Asahikawa in Hokkaido is home to the nine elementary school students who belong to the Asahikawa Higashimachi Poplar Baseball Club.
		One member of the team, Hattori Yosuke, who is in the sixth grade, explains: "In the winter in Hokkaido it's cold, and there is a lot of snow, so we can't play baseball.
	web-jpn.org /kidsweb/cool/06-02/cool060201.html (566 words)

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		He says his editors in Sapporo, Portland's sister city on the northern island of Hokkaido, bucked convention by sending him to a midsize West Coast community so that he could see things through American eyes.
		Hokkaido Shimbun has 10 foreign bureaus spread from Moscow to Cairo, Beijing to London and Paris to.
		Like many U.S. newspapers, however, the Hokkaido Shimbun's circulation is shrinking, and space devoted to international news is contracting.
	www.jaso.org /edagawa.doc (861 words)

	Latest News
		MLIT has decided to start a research on new town making use of FC in Hokkaido from spring in 2002, focusing on a simple hydrogen store and transportation system proposed by professor Masaru Ichikawa, catalyst chemistry of Hokkaido University.
		The system proposed by Professor Ichikawa is to transport dekalin(liquid state and includes hydrogen at high concentration) to home or other users installed FC by tank truck and to operate FC using the dekalin as professor Ichikawa has developed production technology of dekalin derived efficiently from natural gas.
		Continuous operation performance will be confirmed by continuing the operation until 2003 and energy efficiency of the system will be also evaluated which is necessary performance for commercialization and also selection of optimum conditions at hydrogen charge and confirmation of safety system will be carried out.
	www.fcdic.com /eng/news/200203.html (3001 words)

	Japanese media - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The main anchor of this program, "Chikushi Tetsuya," is the translator of David Halberstam's "The Powers That Be." He is also influenced by the attitude of CBS News, e.g.
		Known for its preeminent writers as well as the frequency with which its articles are used for university admission examinations.
		There are also regional newspapers like the Tokyo Shimbun (東京新聞) in Kanto, Chunichi Shimbun (中日新聞) in Chubu, Nishinippon Shimbun (西日本新聞) in Kyushu, Hokkaido Shimbun(北海道新聞) in Hokkaido, Kahoku Shimpo (河北新報) in Tohoku, and English versions of the 5 major newspapers.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Japanese_media (952 words)

	Japan Privacy Resource (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		Shortly after, Hokkaido police announced an investigation into a similar incident, in which personal information had leaked onto the Internet after an Ebetsu police officer took home a laptop computer containing information about a number of investigations he was working on.
		Hokkaido police officials announced that they would undertake intensive staff training in personal data handling in order to avoid similar incidents in future.
		On March 23, the Tokyo High Court ordered Waseda University to pay ¥15,000 in damages to three students who claimed that their privacy had been violated when the university gave their names, addresses and telephone numbers to police in connection with their attendance at a 1998 lecture by Chinese President Jiang Zemin.
	www.privacyexchange.org /japan/nf04032.html (1997 words)

	SAPPORO SNOW FESTIVAL 2006
		In 2003, the Hawaiian sea formed the backdrop for the snow statue of surfing Stitch, but this time he is making his appearance with the kingdom of dream and magic.
		Cows living in the great nature of Hokkaido are full of life even in the chilly winter.
		The imperial palace (also known as the Forbidden City) in Beijing was the Chinese imperial palace during the mid-Ming and the Qing Dynasties.
	www.snowfes.com /english/place/oodori (752 words)

	ABC News: Small Waves Hit Japan After Tsunami Fear
		The waves did not swell higher than 16 inches and rapidly diminished in size, but Japan's meteorological agency said that it would wait for at least several hours before withdrawing its warning of possible larger waves.
		The agency told coast residents to flee to higher ground after initially predicting that a 6 1/2-foot tsunami would hit the Pacific coast of its northernmost island of Hokkaido and main island of Honshu after 9:10 p.m.
		Takeshi Hachimine, chief of the Japanese meteorological agency's earthquake and tsunami monitoring section, said aftershocks of Wednesday's quake could trigger more tsunami but those waves are expected to pose little danger to Japan.
	abcnews.go.com /International/wireStory?id=2654596 (448 words)

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		For most of the 40 students attending a recent seminar at Hokkaido Sapporo Intercultural and Technological High School (SIT), looking through English-language newspapers seemed to be somewhat daunting.
		Chihiro Nogami, a first-year student on the course, said she decided to sit for the SIT entrance exam when she read in a newspaper that the school had been designated a pilot school with an emphasis on English education.
		The professor said she urged the teachers to "increase the students' interaction between students." As she is to visit the school again early next year, Biash gave the teachers "homework"--to develop homework or classroom activities that put more focus on "output, creative use of language," particularly in speaking.
	www.asu.edu /educ/epsl/LPRU/newsarchive/Art3055.txt (947 words)

	NIRA Research Report: Study of Public Works and Regional Independence--Based on Analysis of Current Situations in ...
		We tried to analyze the characteristics of public works in Hokkaido using three methods, while paying special attention to Hokkaido citizens' opinions of public works, that is, their basic views on public works and sense of their values.
		We focused on the awareness of public works among Hokkaido citizens for two purposes: to understand their actual opinions regarding public works, which have become more and more fluid, as witnessed nationwide; and to understand the challenges and potentials of achieving regional independence in Hokkaido, while enhancing the awareness of Hokkaido citizens.
		First, a historical analysis was carried out, in which trends in Hokkaido public works and citizen opinions of public works were analyzed using articles appearing in The Hokkaido Shimbun since the 1980's.
	www.nira.go.jp /publ/houko/i19990119.html (742 words)

	Natural Environment-Vegetation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		from "Trees in Hokkaido" The Hokkaido Shimbun Press.
		About 70% of Hokkaido is covered with forests.
		Hokkaido is at a relatively northern latitude,and due to the severe winter weather in the eastern and northern parts of the island, alpine vegetation is found even close to the sea shores.
	www.pref.hokkaido.jp /kseikatu/ks-kskky/environ/vegetate/vegetate-e.html (60 words)

	Article from Hokkaido Shimbun - "Another Blue-eyed Doll"
		She says that she remembered the doll when she saw the Hamatonbetsu article in the Hokkaido Shimbun.
		This charming American doll has a height of 40 centimeters, eyes that close when she is laid down, and a voice that cries "mama." In those days the American Committee on World Friendship Among Children sent these dolls to the world.
		Tsukamoto says, "Also remaining are a letter from the sender of the doll and thank you letters sent to the Hokkaido Government Office about the Japanese doll given by Hokkaido to America in return.
	wgordon.web.wesleyan.edu /dolls/american/individual/tokeidai/article.htm (237 words)

	English Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		The Hokkaido Marathon, Japan's only mid-summer race, was first held in 1987 in Sapporo, the capital city of the northernmost island of Hokkaido.
		The Hokkaido Marathon served as an important event to select Japanese athletes for the Olympic Games hosted by Barcelona in 1992 and by Atlanta in 1996.
		It is expected to draw a large number of world-class runners from Japan and overseas.
	www.hokkaido-marathon.com /2001/english/index.html (545 words)

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