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	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Hokuriku region (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		KÅshinetsu (ç”²ä¿¡è¶Š;) is a subregion of the Chubu region in Japan consisting of Yamanashi, Nagano and Niigata prefectures.
		Chugoku region, Japan The ChÅ«goku region (ä¸å›½åœ°æ–¹ ChÅ«goku-chihÅ) is the westernmost region of Honshu, the largest island of Japan.
		The Iwashimizu Hachimangu, a Shinto shrine in Yawata.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Hokuriku-region (1236 words)

	Chubu region - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The Chubu, or central, region encompasses nine prefectures in the midland of Japan, west of the Kanto region: Aichi, Fukui, Gifu, Ishikawa, Nagano, Niigata, Shizuoka, Toyama, and Yamanashi.
		The region comprises three distinct districts: Hokuriku, a coastal strip on the Sea of Japan that is a major wet-rice producing area; Tosan, or the Central Highlands; and Tokai, or the eastern seaboard, a narrow corridor along the Pacific Coast.
		The region is served by Chubu Centrair International Airport (NGO), an airport on an off-shore artificial island in the city of Tokoname, Aichi near Nagoya, and by Nagoya Airport, which is located near Nagoya in the cities of Komaki and Kasugai.
	www.newlenox.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Chubu_region (685 words)

	Chubu region - the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The Chubu, or central, region encompasses nine prefectures in the midland of Japan, west of the Kanto region: Aichi, Fukui, Gifu,Ishikawa, Nagano, Niigata, Shizuoka, Toyama, and Yamanashi.
		The region comprises three distinctdistricts: Hokuriku, a coastal strip on the Sea of Japan that is a major wet-rice producing area; Tosan, or the CentralHighlands; and Tokai, or the eastern seaboard, a narrow corridor along the Pacific Coast.
		The region is served by Chubu Centrair International Airport (NGO), an airport on an off-shore artificial island in thecity of Tokoname, Aichi near Nagoya, and by Nagoya Airport, which is located near Nagoya in the cities of Komaki and Kasugai.
	www.free-web-encyclopedia.com /?t=Chubu (583 words)

	Hokuriku Region Map: Fukui — Toyama \| Japan Google Satellite Maps
		Browse the list of administrative regions below and follow the navigation through secondary administrative regions to find populated place you are interested in.
		Regions are sorted in alphabetical order from level 1 to level 2 and eventually up to level 3 regions.
		You are in Hokuriku (Japan), administrative region of level 1.
	www.maplandia.com /japan/hokuriku (631 words)

	Fukui, Fukui article - Fukui, Fukui Fukui prefecture city Hokuriku region Chubu region Honshu island - What-Means.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Fukui, Fukui article - Fukui, Fukui Fukui prefecture city Hokuriku region Chubu region Honshu island - What-Means.com
		Fukui (福井市;; -shi) is a city located in the Hokuriku region within the Chubu region of Japan, which is on Honshu island.
		The JR (Japan Railways) Hokuriku shinkansen (bullet train) line from Kyoto through Fukui, Kanazawa, Toyama, and Nagano to Tokyo is far along in construction and will be completed in the next few years.
	www.what-means.com /encyclopedia/Fukui (242 words)

	Hokuriku region - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Hokuriku region (北陸地方, literally North Land) is the region along the Sea of Japan within the Chubu region, the central region of Honshu, the main island of Japan.
		The variously defined region includes the prefectures of Toyama, Ishikawa and Fukui, and may include Niigata Prefecture as well.
		In the former case, Niigata Prefecture and Nagano Prefecture form the Shinetsu region and together with Hokuriku region comprise Hoku-shin'etsu (literally North Shin'etsu).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hokuriku_region (96 words)

	Hokuriku region - TheBestLinks.com - Honshu, Sea of Japan, Chubu region, Fukui prefecture, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Hokuriku region - TheBestLinks.com - Honshu, Sea of Japan, Chubu region, Fukui prefecture,...
		Hokuriku region, Honshu, Sea of Japan, Chubu region, Fukui prefecture, Ishikawa...
		North Land) is the region confing the Sea of Japan within Chubu region, the central region of Honshu, the main island of Japan.
	www.thebestlinks.com /Hokuriku_region.html (131 words)

	Fukui, Fukui - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Fukui (福井市; -shi) is a city located in the Hokuriku region within the Chubu region of Japan, which is on Honshu island.
		Governors of Fukui have argued that the large number of nuclear power plants should be rewarded with central government-funded projects such as the construction of a shinkansen line through the prefecture.
		Obama iin Wakasa (southern region of Fukui) is notable historically for its large number of 7th and 8th century Shingon temples.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fukui (518 words)

	Region (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		region is the financial, cultural, and political center of Japan.
		region is situated in the middle of Japan's mainland and includes Nagano, Yamanashi, Gifu, Aichi, and Shizuoka prefectures.
		region was once the political and cultural capital of Japan.
	www.sakeexpert.com /region/region.html (570 words)

	Regions of Japan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Kanto region (eastern Honshu, including Tokyo and Yokohama)
		Kinki region (west-central Honshu, including Osaka, Kobe, and Kyoto)
		Each contains several prefectures, except the Hokkaido region, which covers only Hokkaido Prefecture.
	www.newlenox.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Regions_of_Japan (130 words)

	Chubu
		Hokuriku, defined by the four prefectures of Niigata-ken, Toyama-ken, Ishikawa-ken, and Fukui-ken, borders Tohoku in the north and stretches southwest along the Japan Sea, taking in the Noto Hanto peninsula along the way.
		Hokuriku, the Central Highlands, and Tokai, although grouped together as the Chubu District, are vastly diverse in climate, geography, historical background, and folkways.
		In Hokuriku is Niigata, the premier port city along the northern reaches of the Japan Sea.
	www.pacificislandtravel.com /asia/japan/about_destin/chubu.html (1933 words)

	Gunma Prefecture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Gunma is the northwestern-most prefecture of the Kanto, and is mostly mountainous in the north, with more of the population concentrated in the southern half facing Saitama Prefecture.
		It has a colder climate more like the Hokuriku region than the lower parts of the Kanto.
		On December 5, 2004, the former town of Ogo and former villages of Kasukawa and Miyagi from Seta District merged into the expanded city of Maebashi.
	www.sterlingheights.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Gunma_Prefecture (349 words)

	Study tour paves way for better ties
		The group, all from Central Japan's Hokuriku region, arrived in China last Sunday for a 10-day exchange programme organized by Hokuriku University's Confucius Institute, an academy that teaches Chinese and promotes Chinese culture in the region.
		He expressed his hope that the students, mainly from Hokuriku's senior middle schools and universities, could learn the truth about China during their trip and be "goodwill ambassadors" after they return to Japan.
		Terada Yuka, a sophomore at Hokuriku University who has studied Chinese language for more than a year, said what she saw in China is different from the Japanese media portrayal of the country.
	www.chinadaily.com.cn /china/2006-08/26/content_674907.htm (453 words)

	The Regional Impacts of Climate Change
		Exceptions are in regions with heavy snow accumulation, windy mountain crests and slopes, or windy coastal zones.
		If there were an afforested region or broad cultivated area between natural forests, such changes would not occur.
		Forests of the Hokuriku region on the Japan Sea side of central Japan are likely to respond to climatic change (Kojima, 1996).
	www.grida.no /climate/ipcc/regional/279.htm (540 words)

	iqexpand.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Commencement of Joint Examination of LNG Marketing Business in the Hokuriku Region January 5, 2001 Chubu Electric Power Co., Inc. and Hokuriku Electric Power Company plan to join forces in the marketing...
		The Hokuriku region, owing to its location on the Sea of Japan coast, has a long and rich history of...
		Hokuriku Region NIIGATA TOYAMA ISHIKAWA FUKUI Chubu Region YAMANASHI NAGANO GIFU SHIZUOKA AICHI Kansai (Kinki) Region MIE SHIGA KYOTO OSAKA HYOGO WAKAYAMA Chugoku Region SHIMANE OKAYAMA HIROSHIMA YAMAGUCHI Shikoku Region...
	hokuriku_region.iqexpand.com (357 words)

	SHIGA-Our Prefecture's Profile
		Adjacent to the Hokuriku Districts in the north, and to the Nanki Districts (the southern part of Kinki) in the south, Shiga possesses a highly complicated composition of climate within itself.
		If we divide the prefecture in two by the lake of Biwa, Kohoku (the northern half) has a climatic type of the district along the Sea of Japan, whereas the climate of Konan (the southern half) is the one typical of the Pacific seaside of Japan.
		Although Hokuriku and Tokaido railways run between Kosei (the western part) and Kohoku, snowplows are needed every year because of the heavy snow.
	www.infowest.com /personal/r/rpurcell/shiga.html (784 words)

	Integrated management of large-scale network systems encompassing everything from mainframes to banking terminals : ...
		Even a regional bank like The Hokuriku Bank must support the infrastructure of regional economies from a global perspective while it maintains its own locality as the focus of its activities.
		The Hokuriku Bank had been using a mainframe to manage definition information relating to the operation management of online terminals.
		The Hokuriku Bank is planning to improve messages to make them easier to understand, and to master Systemwalker PerfMGR's capacity planning functions thoroughly to reduce labor and further enjoy the benefits of the new system installation.
	www.fujitsu.com /global/casestudies/SYSWLK_casestudy02.html (1399 words)

	Hokonui Hills - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Hokonui Hills (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The hills lie within a triangle formed by the towns of Gore to the east, Lumsden to the north, and Winton to the southwest, and cover approximately 1200 km
		During the prohibition era, the region gained a reputation for the production of illicit alcohol known as Hokonui moonshine.
		The association between the region and illicit alcohol has passed into New zealand folklore.
	www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/Hokonui-Hills.html (233 words)

	2004 Chuetsu Earthquake - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		In a press release, the Geographical Survey Institute (GSI) of the Government of Japan published preliminary estimates that a fault having a length of 22 km and a width of 17 km moved approximately 1.4 m.
		Niigata Prefecture is located in the Hokuriku region of Honshu, the largest island of Japan.
		The initial earthquake caused noticeable shaking across almost half of Honshu, including parts of the Tohoku, Hokuriku, Chubu, and Kanto regions.
	www.secaucus.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/2004_Chuetsu_Earthquake (734 words)

	Kuwayama
		Information about the Higashiyama and Hokuriku regions is based primarily on work by Ichiro Kantani, with additional information from Sugiyama/Mochizuki (Hokuriku Nogyo Kenkyu, volume 1, issue 1, 1949).
		As can be seen in the species distribution table, the greatest number of soybean pest species, 199, are found on the main island, which accounts 91% of the total number of pest species; 157 species are found on Kyushu (72%); 123 species on Hokkaido (56%); and 115 species on Shikoku (53%).
		japonica are destructive pests in the northern regions comprising Hokkaido and the Tohoku (northeastern) region; Nezara antennata, Sylepta ruralis, and Eugnathus distinctus cause much damage in the southern regions including Shikoku and Kyushu.
	www.ksu.edu /issa/aphids/reporthtml/trans85.htm (1223 words)

	Japan Omnibus - Sightseeing - Chubu Area - Hokuriku
		This is the region, made up of Niigata, Toyama, Ishikawa and Fukui Prefectures, between the Japan Alps and the Sea of Japan.
		The scenic Echizen Coast stretches for 100km from Kaga to Tsuruga in Wakasa Bay, with Echizen-misaki cape at its center.
		Echizen-yaki, sold mostly as gifts or for the tea ceremony, is another of the ceramic wares of the Hokuriku region.
	www.japan-zone.com /omnibus/chubu_n.shtml (918 words)

	CNN.com - Regional banks plan integration - May. 23, 2003
		Two Japanese regional banks, Hokuriku Bank and Hokkaido Bank, said Friday they will integrate their operations under a holding company in the financial year starting next April.
		Hokkaido Bank operates on the northern island of Hokkaido, while its new ally serves the Hokuriku region in the north of the main island, Honshu.
		Ahead of the announcement Friday, shares in Hokkaido finished 13.3 percent higher to 111 yen and Hokuriku shares fell 2.7 percent to 144 yen.
	cnn.com /2003/BUSINESS/05/23/japan.banks.biz (279 words)

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