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  Hiroshima - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Hiroshima was founded in 1589, on the coast of the Seto Inland Sea, and became a major urban center during the Meiji period.
Finally Asano was appointed the daimyo of this area and Hiroshima served as the capital of Hiroshima han during the Edo period.
In 1949, Hiroshima was proclaimed a City of Peace by the Japanese parliament, at the initiative of its mayor Shinzo Hamai (b.
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 Hiroshima Hotels
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.
Personally I found it strange that Hiroshima is rebuild on the old position and the environment is not that critical as area that attacked by nuclear weapons as people suspect.
Hiroshima is a traditional center of the Chugoku region and was the seat of the Mori clan until the Battle of Sekigahara.
www.artistbooking.com /trips/79/hiroshima-hotels.html   (1193 words)

  
 Brujula.Net - Your Latin Stating Point   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Hiroshima Prefecture, and the largest city in the Chugoku region of western Japan.
Hiroshima was founded in 1589, on the coast of the
After the nuclear attack, Hiroshima was rebuilt as a "peace memorial city," and the closest surviving building to the location of the bomb's detonation was designated the Hiroshima Peace Memorial.
www.brujula.net /english/wiki/Hiroshima.html   (658 words)

  
 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for hiroshima
It is a small fishing and commercial port and an agricultural center.
It was a castle town during the Edo era.
Profile: World premiere of "Hiroshima Maiden," a play based on the victims of the atomic bomb who were treated in America
www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=hiroshima   (551 words)

  
 innoshima
Innoshima City was once a stronghold of a naval force, originally said to be pirates, called " Innoshima Murakami" who were one group of the three Murakamis.
The Innoshima Murakami built more than ten castle-like forts on hills at every cape around this island, and constructed a mountain castle on the 277-meter Mt.Aokage to supervise these forts.
At the foot of the mountain is a prefectural botanical garden, Innoshima Flower Center, which grows about 100,000 plants of 300 species including tropical plants and fruits in the greenhouse.
www2.mnx.jp /~kev6145/innoshima.htm   (520 words)

  
 hiroshima resource page - hiroshima bombing
The wife of Japan's leader speaks to the BBC in her first interview with foreign media.
As an extra bonus here are the top searched terms over the past month for hiroshima.
Now you can see what everyone else is searching for in regards to hiroshima.
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 hiroshima resources -
Sanfrecce Hiroshima is the city's J. League football team.
MEDIA ADVISORY, Dec. 11 / Christian Newswire / -- On August 6, 1945, the city of Hiroshima was the target of the first atomic bomb to fall on a civilian population.
dropping of the atomic bomb on hiroshima and nagasaki
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 TownNet.com - World > Asia > Japan > Hiroshima
Hiroshima having traded with the foreign countries was the center of marine transportation in old times.
Extending you the enjoyable information about Hiroshima, such as Kagura and Okonomi-yaki.
Every year, May 3rd-5th, in front of Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park, about 1400000 people come.
www.townnet.info.co.jp /world/asia/japan/hiroshima.html   (268 words)

  
 The Ways You Remember   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
He still saw him in his dreams, sometimes, always silent, never like the way he was when he was still there, inhabiting a corner of his mind.
When he came back, from Hiroshima, having mourned ritually, dutifully, going through the motions of honoring one's teacher, he felt strangely numb.
He was tired; he had spent the past week playing tournament games and the last day wandering throughout Hiroshima, paying his respects at every Shuusaku shrine.
www.trois-royaumes.com /infinity/writing/waysyouremember.html   (658 words)

  
 Joshua Zimmerman - Innoshima and Kure   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
We took a look in one of the many tour guides we had at our disposal and decided to head on over to the island of Innoshima, which was about an hour's bus ride away.
Sadly we were not able to figure out the bus system in Innoshima so we took a cab to the Innoshima Navy Castle.
Kure is the 3rd largest city in Hiroshima Prefecture and looks like a fun place to hang out.
www.joshuazimmerman.com /blog/archives/2005/09/innoshima_and_k.html   (1826 words)

  
 OAT : Japan's Cultural Treasures (2007) : Trip Extensions
Come to Hiroshima, a city whose very name evokes both the horrors of modern war and the promise of rebirth.
Hiroshima is a city of over one million people with citizens who are keenly aware of the perils of the modern world, but who are equally proud of the life they have created here.
The Hiroshima Peace Park is a reminder to visitors of what took place here, as is the A-bomb dome, a UNESCO World Heritage site.
www.oattravel.com /gcc/general/default.aspx?oid=147670   (2325 words)

  
 Innoshima city and Hiroshima city
This is the view of Habu Town in Innoshima from a lookout point.
This is the bridge that connects Innoshima to the main island (Honshu)
This is a watch that was found after the atomic bomb was dropped in Hiroshima.
www.travelblog.org /Asia/Japan/blog-26367.html   (326 words)

  
 Last stops for the McLean's: Hiroshima, Innoshima and Miyajima
The building displays artifacts to illustrate the events and conditions in Hiroshima on and after August 6, 1945 with the dropping of the Atomic Bomb.
My Dad decided that attempting to drive in Hiroshima City was potentially too dangerous (with the other side of the road and car factors), so we got on a train to Onomichi and rented a car from there.
Our last day in Hiroshima was another rainy one, and perfect for relaxing and souvenir shopping.
www.travelblog.org /Print/Blog/6360/48316.html   (827 words)

  
 HONSHU JAPAN
The population is 98,352,000 (as of 1990, in 1975 it was 89,101,702), concentrated in the available lowlands, notably in the Kanto plain where 25% of the total population reside in and around Tokyo and Yokohama.
Other cities include Kyoto, Osaka, Kobe, Hiroshima, Sendai, and Nagoya.
Three-fourths of Japan's main, major, and modern cities are here on Honshu, including the 23 special wards of Tokyo, Yokohama, Osaka, Nagoya, Kobe, Kyoto, Akita, Sendai, Fukushima, Niigata, and Hiroshima.
www.japaneselifestyle.com.au /travel/honshu.htm   (440 words)

  
 OAT : Japan's Cultural Treasures (2006) : Trip Extensions
The rest of your group of traveling companions beginning the main trip will be arriving throughout the afternoon at our hotel, and you will meet them tomorrow, on Day 3 of the main trip.
Then we’ll embark on a tour of historic Hiroshima, which was rebuilt after the devastation of August 6, 1945, and is now a thriving, healthy city.
You can explore the city of Hiroshima on your own, visiting sites that have particular interest for you, or you can join us on an optional excursion to Shimanami Kaido and the islands of the Seto Inland Sea.
www.oattravel.com /gcc/general/default.aspx?oid=119989   (2401 words)

  
 Fujita Corporation - A brief history
Fujita Corporation has continually expanded its role in construction and in urban redevelopment since the Fujita brothers started their engineering-works construction contract business in Hiroshima in 1910.
Although the city of Hiroshima was devastated by the detonation of the first atomic bomb during World War II, the Fujita Corporation continued to grow, both in scale and reputation.
The rebuilding of Japan following World War II led to the modernization of the construction industry generally and to the introduction of long-range management planning.
www.fujita.com /history.html   (621 words)

  
 in sunny day ... Photo | TrekLens
Photos: Earth >> Asia >> Japan >> Chugoku >> Hiroshima >> onomichi-shi
Here is the island named Innoshima that exists in the place of 30 minutes in the ferry from an Onomichi port.
So, Inland Sea(Setonaikai) of these area is a very calm inland sea and is warm throughout the year.
www.treklens.com /gallery/Asia/photo208987.htm   (220 words)

  
 Japan Show
It was like returning to place he had never been, exotic yet comfortable and familiar.
He visited relatives in a 18th century Samurai home, Zen Temples, Shinto Shrines, Japanese gardens, Hiroshima, the great Torji Gate at Miya Jima and his Mother’s home island of Innoshima, where he went to the cemetery where his ancestors go back for centuries.
This book is a first impression of a place he hopes to return again and again.
www.galleryprint.com /doug_beasley/japanshow.html   (218 words)

  
 Innoshima, Hiroshima, Japan - Location on world map, coordinates and short facts (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.tamu.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Innoshima, Hiroshima, Japan - Location on world map, coordinates and short facts (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.tamu.edu)
/ Explore / Japan / Locations / Innoshima, Hiroshima
Maps and coordinates for Innoshima, Hiroshima, Japan are approximative and not valid for navigation.
www.traveljournals.net.cob-web.org:8888 /explore/japan/map/m343427/innoshima.html   (81 words)

  
 Seto Inland Sea travel guide - Wikitravel
Seto-Ohashi Bridge, a set of six bridges connected Okayama (Honshu) to Kagawa (Shikoku)
Shimanami Kaido, from Hiroshima (Honshu) to Ehime (Shikoku)
The only train connection across the Inland Sea is via the Seto-Ohashi Bridge from Okayama to Takamatsu and onward.
wikitravel.org /en/Seto_Inland_Sea   (271 words)

  
 JAPAN POW CAMP GROUP HISTORY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
17 Jun Terminated; POWs transferred to HIROSHIMA POW CAMP 3-B and NAGOYA POW CAMP 9-B
13 Apr Jurisdictional control transferred to HIROSHIMA POW CAMP 1-B
27 Nov Established as YAHATA Provisional POW CAMP INNOSHIMA Branch Camp
home.comcast.net /~winjerd/CmpGroup.htm   (2157 words)

  
 Colby Magazine, Fall 2000 | Alumni | Class Notes: Forties (40s)
Don also recommends making the reunion an annual occasion for 50-plus alumni.
Don went on to say that he and Hilda spent a very busy and happy month last fall visiting family and friends in various parts of Japan, including an overnight in the home where Hilda lived in the 1930s on the island of Innoshima, Hiroshima prefecture.
On the way back home, they spent several days in Honolulu with Bob and Alice Covell Bender.
www.colby.edu /colby.mag/issues/fall00/alumni/4549.shtml   (1724 words)

  
 FERMENTATION COMPOSITION, PROCESS FOR PREPARING THE SAME, AND USE THEREOF (WO9801042A1)
MATSUURA, Shingoro; 605, Nakanosho-cho, Innoshima-shi, Hiroshima 722-22, Japan
MANDA FERMENTATION CO., LTD., 5800-95, Shigei-cho, Innoshima-shi, Hiroshima 722-21, Japan
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