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	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 (115 words)

	Hokkaido - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Hokkaido became equal with other prefectures in 1947, when the revised Local Autonomy Law became effective.
		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.
		Hokkaido is known for its cool summers (which attracts many tourists from other parts of Japan) and icy winters.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hokkaido_prefecture (1455 words)

	Hokkaido - Free net encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		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.
		Image:Large map of Hokkaido within Japan.png Template:Seealso Hokkaidō is one of 8 prefectures in Japan that are divided into subprefectures (the others being Tokyo Prefecture, Yamagata Prefecture, Nagasaki Prefecture, Okinawa Prefecture, Kagoshima Prefecture, Miyazaki Prefecture and Shimane Prefecture).
	www.netipedia.com /index.php/Hokkaido_prefecture (1338 words)

	Hakodate, Hokkaido - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The park is a popular spot in Hokkaido for hanami (cherry blossom viewing).
		Near Hakodate, Hokkaido there is the static inverter plant of the HVDC Hokkaido-Honshu.
		The city is also known for Hakodate Shio Ramen, where instead of having a pork cutlet placed inside the soup, sliced squid is used.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hakodate,_Hokkaido (560 words)

	Hokkaido — FactMonster.com
		The Ishikari, second longest river of Japan, traverses W Hokkaido; its valley is an important urban and industrial region.
		Hokkaido is one of the major fishing centers of the world.
		Hokkaido's scenic beauty is preserved in several national parks.
	www.factmonster.com /id/A0823952 (424 words)

	Hokkaido. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		The Ishikari, second longest river of Japan, traverses W Hokkaido; its valley is an important urban and industrial region.
		Hokkaido is one of the major fishing centers of the world.
		In 1885, Hokkaido was made an administrative unit and was granted a central government.
	www.bartleby.com /65/ho/Hokkaido.html (428 words)

	Edutraveller :: Places :: Hokkaido
		Hokkaido is the coldest part of Japan, and sees the most snow of any part of Japan (between four and six metres a year, more than almost any urban area in the world).
		In the north of the region is Onneyu, a famous onsen, for the weary.
		Hokkaido is big and it can take a lot of time to get around it all, so if you are on a tight schedule you will have to prioritise what you want to see.
	www.edutraveller.com /jp/en/places/hokkaido.html (2357 words)

	Terrestrial Ecoregions -- Hokkaido deciduous forests (PA0423)
		The lowlands of Hokkaido, the northernmost of the four main islands of Japan, represent a transitional zone between cool temperate forests to the south and subarctic forests to the north.
		Hokkaido represents a transitional zone between cool temperate forests to the south and subarctic forests to the north, with the exception of the Oshima Peninsula.
		The Hokkaido red-crowned cranes are resident year-round on the east coast of the island while the mainland populations of red-crowned cranes are migratory (Swenger 1996).
	www.worldwildlife.org /wildworld/profiles/terrestrial/pa/pa0423_full.html (1210 words)

	Breeds of Livestock - Hokkaido Horse (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The Hokkaido horse is thought to have been brought during the Edo era (1600-1867) to Hokkaido by fishermen.
		The Hokkaido horse is considered a descendant of the Nanbu horse, a breed which is thought to have been bred in Tohoku, the northern region of Honshu.
		Obviously the horses brought to Hokkaido by fishermen earlier were ones thought to be inferior among the Nanbu breed because the fishermen did not intend to bring the horses back with them from the first place.
	www.ansi.okstate.edu /breeds/horses/hokkaido (404 words)

	PRESENT STATUS OF MAJOR MARINE CULTIVATION AND PROPAGATION IN HOKKAIDO AND SOME PROBLEMS OF THE RESEARCH ACTIVITIES
		Hokkaido is the northernmost island of Japanese archipelago.
		The coastline of Hokkaido is influenced by two warm currents, the Tsushima and the Kuroshio, and one cold current, the Oyashio (Fig.
		Hokkaido is still an underdeveloped area for the cultivation of Porphyra because there are many obstacles hindering its growth, such as heavy windstorms along the Japan Sea coast, freezing of sea waters, and floating drift ice in the inlets along the eastern part of the Pacific coast and the Okhotsk coast.
	www.lib.noaa.gov /japan/aquaculture/report1/hasegawa.html (1714 words)

	Major Japan Quake Injures Hundreds
		The quake was centered deep under the ocean, and the region it shook was well prepared.
		Hokkaido government official Hidenori Hoshino said 323 people were confirmed injured as of 5 p.m., about 12 hours after the quake.
		Several observers credited the preparedness of the region, whose residents have lived through several magnitude-7-plus earthquakes in recent decades, most recently in 1993.
	www.rense.com /general42/mnaj.htm (647 words)

	HighBeam Encyclopedia - Hokkaido (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Toward an understanding of technological variability in microblade assemblages in Hokkaido, Japan.
		Ethnic Tourism in Hokkaido and the Shaping of Ainu Identity.
		Shadai Stallion Station in Hokkaido has bought the Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner War Emblem for 17 million dollars.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/h/hokkaido.asp (583 words)

	Earthquake and Tsunami of October 4, 1994 IN THE KURIL ISLANDS - Dr. George Pararas-Carayannis
		This region is characterized by large earthquakes (such as the 1963 and 1994 events), but with lesser vertical subduction and greater rotational movement - as the North Pacific Plate grinds against it.
		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.
		Because of the large earthquake magnitude and the known tsunamicity of the area, regional and Pacific-wide warnings were issued by the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Honolulu, for the Kuril Islands, Japan, the Hawaiian Islands, and the west coast of Canada and the United States.
	www.drgeorgepc.com /Tsunami1994RussiaKurils.html (4285 words)

	Analysis: Tokyo Bails Out of the Bailout Game (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		TOKYO -- The failure on Monday of the Hokkaido Takushoku Bank, the first of Japan's big banks to collapse under the weight of bad loans, is the latest -- and strongest -- sign yet that the Japanese government is prepared to allow market forces to reconfigure the domestic financial landscape.
		Indeed, the government was instrumental in arranging for an orderly transfer of Hokkaido Takushoku's assets in the Hokkaido region to North Pacific Bank, folding a weak bank into a stronger one.
		Hokkaido Takushoku failed because it could no longer borrow for the short term, and, indeed, concerns about Japanese banks' exposure to problems in Southeast Asia, Hong Kong and South Korea have recently driven up their costs for short-term money market loans.
	www-personal.umd.umich.edu /~mtwomey/newspapers/1118JAPA.HTML (1022 words)

	NewsOnJapan.com - Japan Directory - Regional Websites/Hokkaido Region (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Hokkaido University Nuclear Theory Group is an Japanese scholarly organization devoted to the study of nuclear theories
		Daisetsuzan National Park is at the center of Hokkaido and the largest national park in Japan.
		Sapporo, The country's third largest city in area, is located on the western plains of Hokkaido, the northernmost island of Japan.
	www.newsonjapan.com /html/linkbase/Regional_Websites/Hokkaido_Region/index.shtml (138 words)

	Japanese Horse Breeds Home Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		native to the Noma region of Imabari in Ehime Prefecture.
		The region was able to produce, according to legends, 10,000 cavalry mounts for Kiso Yoshinaka’s army.
		The breed is being preserved in the region centering on Kaida mura in Kiso County, Nagano Prefecture.
	www.imh.org /imh/bw/japan.html (1549 words)

	Intelligent Transportation Systems & Winter Operations in Japan- Chapter 2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		It lies roughly between the latitudes of 41 and 45 degrees north and is surrounded by the Sea of Japan on the west, the North Pacific Ocean on the east and south, and the Sea of Okhotsk on the north.
		Hokkaido is in the northern limit of the temperate zone and the southern limit of the subarctic zone.
		The cold and snowy region of Hokkaido, in general, and of Sapporo, in particular, poses many challenges to the transportation needs of the residents during wintertime.
	international.fhwa.dot.gov /Pdfs/converted_to_html/scanreports/intelligent/chapter2.htm (3405 words)

	Wikinfo \| Hokkaido prefecture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		During the winter, the Sea of Okhotsk turns to ice, rendering the northern coast impassable to marine traffic.
		During the winter, skiing and other winter sports continue to bring tourists to Hokkaido (the 1972 Winter Olympics were held there).
		Hokkaido can also be reached by ferry from Tokyo and Niigata.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Hokkaido_prefecture (470 words)

	Colorado Plateau Field Institute - Current Events
		A magnitude 6.8 earthquake occurred in the Hokkaido Region of Japan on Monday, December 6, 2004 at 23:15:12 local time.
		The epicenter was 65 km (40 miles) east of Kushiro, Hokkaido, Japan (pop 199,000), 250 km (155 miles) ESE of Asahikawa, Hokkaido, Japan, and 930 km (580 miles) NNE of TOKYO, Japan.
		On October 23, the central region of Niigata was rocked by a temblor registering 6.8 on the Richter scale followed by hundreds of aftershocks, killing 40 people in Japan's deadliest quake in a decade.
	www.cpfieldinstitute.org /k12_event_show.php?event_id=149 (294 words)

	Colorado Plateau Field Institute - Current Events
		A magnitude 7.0 earthquake occurred in the Hokkaido region of Japan on Monday, November 29, 2004 at 03:32:14 local time.
		The epicenter was 55 km (35 miles) east of Kushiro, Hokkaido, Japan, which has a population of 199,000, 235 km (145 miles) ESE of Asahikawa, Hokkaido, Japan, and 930 km (580 miles) NNE of TOKYO, Japan.
		In addition to experiencing significant thrust earthquakes that originate on the interface between the plates, eastern Hokkaido experiences great earthquakes that originate from the interior of subducted Pacific plate.
	www.cpfieldinstitute.org /k12_event_show.php?event_id=144 (328 words)

	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.
		Many place names are in fact derived from Ainu language such as Sapporo.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ye/Yezo.html (106 words)

	Mennonite Mission Network
		He was part of the first group baptized at the Kushiro congregation, one of the first two Mennonite churches in Hokkaido, in May 1952.
		Mary Beyler, supported by Mennonite Mission Network in Obihiro, said many of Hokkaido’s Mennonites can trace their faith back to the people who first talked to them of Christ and baptized them, and for many in Hokkaido, the walk of faith began with Buckwalters and Tanase.
		Beyler, who has related to Hokkaido churches since 1978, said Tanase’s respect for others helped create an Anabaptist culture in Hokkaido that emphasizes the servanthood of leaders and the priesthood of all believers.
	www.mennonitemission.net /resources/News/story.asp?ID=916 (666 words)

	The Earthquake and Tsunami of 26 May 1983 in the Sea of Japan - by Dr. George Pararas-Carayannis
		The seismicity of Northern Japan is the result of a double seismic zone (DSZ), and compressional deep trench and outer rise events and by the magmatic effects of plumes or superplumes which, originally, may have hydrated the subducting oceanic lithosphere.
		This a seismic region that has generated tsunamis in the past, which have caused considerable damage along the the Japanese, Russian and Korean coasts.
		Subsequent surveys of the affected region along the western coast of Japan, sponsored by Japan's National Research Center for Disaster Prevention, documented the effects and runup heights of the tsunami waves.
	www.drgeorgepc.com /Tsunami1983Japan.html (2291 words)

	Chillin' out with 10,000 Snowmen: The Winter Festivals of Hokkaido (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		For the last 20 years, the busy Japanese city of Sapporo, which is located in the Hokkaido region, has taken on a North Pole appearance each February.
		Snow and ice aside, the gourmet delicacies of Hokkaido prove to be the ultimate complement to the beautiful wintry surroundings.
		In fact, Tokyo newspaper competitions often offer “Hokkaido potatoes” as local contest prizes-- such is the glorious taste and texture of this humble vegetable.
	www.goworldtravel.com /ex/aspx/articleGuid.b438cfa9-ece7-4fcb-bf11-7a7bd055b443/xe/article.htm (976 words)

	Stromboli.org - Usu - Eruption of April/May 2000
		Eruption plume on the slope of the volcano.
		Image of the erupting Mt. Usu volcano in Hokkaido, Japan was acquired on April 3, 2000 by the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection (ASTER) on the NASA Terra satellite.
		The volcano continues erupting for the third day while the emergency alert was still on which forced all the residents in towns nearby the erupting mountain to evacuate to safety.
	www.volcanoreport.com /asia/japan/usu/eruption2000_usu_en.php (1798 words)

	"H11F-1330" in fm06
		AB: Eastern Hokkaido, where is one of the largest agricultural production regions in Japan, is characterized by low air temperature and relatively thin snow covers resulting in soil frost over the winter.
		In the current study, soil water movement under different soil frost conditions were monitored to obtain a knowledge of changes in hydraulic-regime of the agricultural production systems in the Eastern Hokkaido associated with the decreasing soil frost depth in the region.
		A paired soil plot experiment was conducted from Nov. 2005 to May 2006, where the frost depth was artificially enhanced by removing snow in the treatment plot and the natural condition was maintained in the control plot.
	www.agu.org /cgi-bin/wais?hh=H11F-1330 (459 words)

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