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		Bedrock of the district consists of regionally metamorphosed early Paleozoic terrigeneous formation of the Kharaa Group that is intruded by early Paleozoic calc-alkaline rocks of the Boroogol complex gabbro-granodiorite-granite complex, a middle Paleozoic alkaline granite-leucogranite complex, and an early Mesozoic gabbro-granodiorite-granite complex in small intrusives and dikes.
		District is divided in to the Boroo, Zuunmod and the Borkhujiryn-gol subdistricts.
		District is underlain by the early Paleozoic the Kharaa Group of terrigeneous rock, early Paleozoic and Devonian granitoids, Carboniferous and Permian sedimentary clastic rock, early Mesozoic variable composition dikes, and Early Cretaceous conglomerate.
	wrgis.wr.usgs.gov /open-file/of03-220/DATABASE/placer_districts.txt (18252 words)

	Iwate District, Iwate - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		As of the Hachimantai merger but with 2003 population data, the district has an estimated population of 110,931 and a density of 55.9 persons per km².
		April 1, 2002-The district acquired the town of Ashiro from Ninohe District.
		September 1, 2005-The towns of Ashiro and Nishine, and the village of Matsuo merged forming the city of Hachimantai.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Iwate_District,_Iwate (130 words)

	Japan
		In May the Osaka District Court awarded a prisoner $5,000 (500,000 yen) in compensation for being confined in leather handcuffs for 3 days while he was being held in solitary confinement.
		Normally a trial begins at the district court level, and a verdict may be appealed to a higher court, and ultimately, to the Supreme Court.
		In 1997 the Sapporo District Court ruled that the Ainu were a minority aboriginal race, and later that year the Diet passed the Law to Promote Ainu Culture.
	www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2000/eap/709.htm (9860 words)

	Iwate Volcano
		Iwate Volcano experienced seven events of debris avalanche since 230 Ka; the youngest one occurred during a period from 915 to 1686 AD.
		JMA issued the Volcanic Observation Reports #13 and 14 on the activity of Iwate on 11 and 15 May, respectively: daily count of volcanic earthquakes at the Matsukawa observation station ranged from 64 to 21 during 7-15 May. At 08h 32m, 11 May, an earthquake with the magnitude of 2.8 took place at Iwate Volcano.
		Iwate Volcano is located about 20 km northwest of Morioka City having a population of 283 thousand.
	hakone.eri.u-tokyo.ac.jp /vrc/erup/iwate.html (3539 words)

	Iwate Prefecture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		There were also Emishi settlements in the Kitakami Basin until the end of the eighth century when the Nara authorities penetrated deeply into Iwate, with Fort Shiwa, to the north of present day Morioka, constructed in 803.
		On February 20, 2006 the cities of Esashi and Mizusawa and the municipaltites of Maesawa, Isawa and Koromogawa from Isawa District merged to form the new city of Ōshū.
		Bashō visited and wrote about Iwate in the journey described in Oku no Hosomichi.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Iwate_Prefecture (682 words)

	Iwate Cities and Towns – Web Listings
		Number of cities, towns, and villages/13 cities, 16 towns, 6 villages Iwate Prefecture is number one in Japan for the oldest stratified mountain (Mt....
		Nagoya, Otsu, Sapporo, Tamana, Wakayama, Hokkaido, Aomori, Iwate, Miyagi, Akita, Yamagata,...
		Iwate, 03, ???, Morioka, 15278, 1433611, 1419505, 1416180, 1385037.
	www.business.com /directory/government_and_trade/by_country/japan/regional_and_municipal_government/prefectures/iwate/cities_and_towns/weblistings.asp (508 words)

	Higashiiwai District, Iwate - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		January 1, 1955-The village of Maikawa merged with the villages of Ganmi, Hagisho, and Yasaka from Nishiiwai District, and city of Ichinoseki (1st) to form the new city of Ichinoseki (2nd).
		The village of Namabo merged with the town of Maesawa, and the villages of Hakusan and Furushiro from Isawa District to form the town of Maesawa in Isawa District.
		April 15, 1955-The village of Nagashima merged with the town of Hiraizumi from Nishiiwai District to form the new town of Hiraizumi from Nishiiwai District.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Higashiiwai_District,_Iwate (327 words)

	Hienuki District, Iwate - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		By the time of founding, the district was co-teminous with the city of Hanamaki-excluding the former town of Towa areas.
		On January 1, 2006, the district dissolved when both municipalities merged with the town of Towa from Waga District and the former city of Hanamaki to create the new city of Hanamaki.
		January 1, 2006-The district merged with the town of Towa from Waga District and the former city of Hanamaki to create the new city of Hanamaki.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hienuki_District,_Iwate (165 words)

	JNTO Website \| Find a Location \| Iwate
		Iwate Prefecture, which boasts the largest land area among Japanese prefectures, is situated in the northeastern part of the Japanese main island, and its eastern side faces the Pacific Ocean.
		North of the coastline are cliffs eroded by the sea, and beach dunes.
		The long coastline blessed with natural good ports makes fishing ports at which abundant marine products are unloaded throughout the year, and there are quite a number of restaurants in the vicinity where you can enjoy fresh seafood such as scallops, oysters and sea urchins.
	www.jnto.go.jp /eng/location/regional/iwate (292 words)

	Iwate Prefecture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Iwate Prefecture (&23721;&25163;&30476;; Iwate-ken) is located in the Tohoku region on Honshu island, Japan.
		The coast is very rugged, with little in between the mountains and the sea.
		These are the Towns and villages in each district.
	iwate-prefecture.iqnaut.net (574 words)

	ZNet \| Activism \| Yasakuni Shrine, Japanese Nationalism, and the Constitution
		These words of the bereaved tell us that mourning the dead relates to how each one of the bereaved remembers the war and is not something that the state does by treating all war dead uniformly and mechanically.
		They asserted that "to have personal religious/racial rights attacked in court is to incur vast suffering," and in the court on the third hearing of the Asia suit on July 12 (that intervention was heard in the same courtroom as the lawsuit), three of these bereaved gave testimony.
		The text of the Shikoku suit heard in Matsuyama District Court states: "No matter what the purpose, it is not proper to glorify death." This question transcends the "normal nationalism" that considers it common sense for the country to mourn those who died for the country.
	www.zmag.org /content/print_article.cfm?itemID=2989&sectionID=17 (4364 words)

	Courts and cases Japan (Lexadin)
		The 50 District Courts are the courts of first instance and trial on most types of civil and criminal cases.
		Each of the 47 prefectures has it's own district court and 3 district courts are located in the cities of Hakodate, Asahikawa and Kushiro).
		Most cases are disposed by a single judge, aside from more serious cases (for criminal cases with a minimum of 6 years) which are heared by a collegiate court.
	www.lexadin.nl /wlg/courts/nofr/oeur/lxctjap.htm (258 words)

	Case Law - District Courts of Japan - Equal Employment Opportunities
		Under article 709 of the Civil Code, a person who unlawfully infringes upon another person’s rights may be liable to pay damages.
		The court held that this practice violated article 4 of the Labour Standards Law by discriminating between men and women with respect to wages and ordered the employer to award the family allowance to female employees as well.
		This was a case involving women part-time workers and article 4 of the Labour Standards Law in which the court decided that it was unlawful to pay women part-time workers less than 80% of the wages of regular employees.
	www.ilo.org /public/english/employment/gems/eeo/law/japan/dc.htm (1277 words)

	AsiaMedia :: Ailing radio broadcasters see promise in podcasts
		Besides airing local news, the company promotes local culture by, for example, teaching listeners words and expressions unique to the local Hanamaki dialect, which is spoken in Iwate Prefecture.
		Even people living outside Iwate, including those residing abroad, have signed up for the service, boosting the company's advertising revenue, Joji added.
		While many radio broadcasters are reworking existing programs to make them more suitable for podcasts, FM Inter-Wave, a broadcaster of foreign-language programs, is producing original podcasts, including live performances of jazz bands and interviews with Japanese and foreign celebrities.
	www.asiamedia.ucla.edu /article.asp?parentid=40371 (653 words)

	Maryly VanLeer Peck
		She is the daughter and sister of Rotarians and has been married to three Rotarians.
		She led a Rotary Group Study Exchange to Iwate, Japan in April 2002.
		She has served as Chairman of the Scholarship Committee and the Speech Contest for many years and as the District 6890 Chairman of Vocational Service.
	www.che.ufl.edu /department/advisory_board/VanLeerPeck.html (357 words)

	Waga District, Iwate - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		As of 2003, the district has an estimated population of 17,829 and a density of 23.83 persons per km².
		November 1, 2005-The town of Yuda and village of Sawauchi merged forming the town of Nishiwaga.
		January 1, 2006-The town of Towa merged with the former Hienuki District and the former city of Hanamaki to create the new city of Hanamaki.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Waga_District,_Iwate (142 words)

	History of Group Study Exchange -GSE (Rotary District 7390)
		Team members returned home in October, not only with new perspectives and an enlarged vision, but with fresh ideas and an understanding of Denmark’s culture, commerce and government that can be invaluable to the individual’s personal life and professional career.
		During their tour of District 1440, the Team made new friends with their host families, participated in vocational tours, and learned about the culture and history of Denmark.
		The Team was honored to be hosted by one of our partner districts in a series of Matching Grant-funded medical missions as part of Rotary's Avoidable Blindness initiative.
	www.rotary7390.org /gse.htm (303 words)

	Quantitative Seismology: Advances in Studies of Fine-Scale Heterogeneities in a Deforming Earth III Posters (Series 1) ...
		Low-$V$ zones considered as the oceanic crust in the uppermosts part of the PHS plate beneath from the Kanto to Kyushu district at depths of 30-60 km beneath the Kanto and southern Kinki district and at depths of 30-70 km beneath the western Shikoku district.
		Temporal change of crustal structure around Iwate volcano, northeastern Japan, for the period from 1995 to 2002 is investigated by examining waveform similarity in P- and S-waves of multiplet earthquakes occurring at the subducting Pacific Plate boundary.
		At most stations far from Iwate volcano, the averaged coefficients of S-waves are estimated to be from 0.95 to 0.97.
	www.agu.org /meetings/fm04/fm04-sessions/fm04_S13D.html (11130 words)

	Asiaweek.com
		His lawyer father, Ozawa Saeki, won a Diet seat from northern Iwate prefecture in the first post-war election.
		Since 1976, he has repeatedly called for restrictions on campaign donations and for public funding of elections as well as an end to multi-member poll districts -- all to limit abuses.
		He was able to put some of these reforms into effect during Hosokawa's brief administration, in which his party was a partner.
	www.pathfinder.com /asiaweek/96/0119/nat3.html (681 words)

	People \| www.azstarnet.com ®
		York received a bachelor's of science degree in sociology from Florida State University in 1997, graduating summa cum laude and first in her class.
		York is currently a Japanese exchange and teaching consul for the Embassy of Japan in Iwate, Japan.
		York will begin her studies as a master's candidate in Asian studies at the National University of Singapore in August 2005.
	www.azstarnet.com /sn/printDS/33080 (205 words)

	Place of Tono , Iwate , Japan@TonoClub
		Japan is located in the Far East area on the earth.
		Iwate Prefecture is in the Tohoku district (northern part of Honshu in Japan) in Japan.
		There is Tono in the center of Iwate Prefecture.
	homepage.mac.com /nanshoji/e6.html (43 words)

	Briefly: 6 killed in Sri Lanka as negotiations stall - Asia - Pacific - International Herald Tribune
		A former soldier, who has not been seen by his Japanese family since he went off to fight in World War II and was declared among the war dead in 2000, has resurfaced in Ukraine and is returning to Japan to see his relatives after 60 years, the government said.
		Ishinosuke Uwano, now 83, was expected to arrive in Japan on Tuesday, accompanied by his Ukrainian son, for 10 days with his surviving relatives in Iwate, about 460 kilometers, or 290 miles, northeast of Tokyo, said Suminori Arima, a war veterans official with the Health and Welfare Ministry.
		Arima declined to say exactly where Uwano had been for the past six decades, nor why he had not been in touch with his Japanese family in all that time.
	www.iht.com /articles/2006/04/17/news/briefs.php (734 words)

	Wings of Rotary
		During the past 25 years, high school students like yourself from Rotary International District 5750 in Oklahoma have enjoyed a unique, short-term exchange with students from Rotary District 2520 in Iwate, Japan.
		You and other Oklahoma teens will fly to Tokyo and then travel to the beautiful Prefecture of Iwate in northern Japan.
		There, you and your Oklahoma Rotary sponsors will be graciously and generously hosted by Japanese Rotarian families.
	www.rotary5750.org /html/wings_of_rotary.html (247 words)

	Dissecting Aneurysms of Intracranial Carotid Circulation -- Ohkuma et al. 33 (4): 941 -- Stroke
		The Tohoku district is located in the northern part of the main
		In this district, 46 institutes, which are the main stroke
		Miyako Hospital, Iwate Prefectural Iwai Hospital, Izumi Hospital
	stroke.ahajournals.org /cgi/content/full/33/4/941 (3983 words)

	HeraldNet - Japanese teachers study Everett schools (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		In Japan, the education environment stresses extremely competitive elimination exams and attempts to bring all students to one level of education, said Izumi Kuroiwa, an interpreter with the delegation.
		Interested in learning more about how American schools foster individuality, the 21 Japanese educators from Iwate Prefecture wanted to observe how teachers, the schools and the district operate.
		Kazuko Takahashi, an elementary school assistant principal and teacher in Iwate Prefecture, said: "In Japan, young students are moving away from traditional things, but in school we are trying to nurture traditions, so if Halloween is a tradition, then it's not too far from what we do in Japan."
	www.heraldnet.com /stories/01/11/6/14663841.CFM (556 words)

	R.A.S. Proceedings -- A New Meteorite from Japan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Alan Owston, who had been traveling in the interior of the main island of Japan, told me that he had seen what he thought to be a stone meteorite in a temple of Iwate.
		As the result of considerable correspondence this specimen has been sent to me, reaching me early in December.
		There were ten or more pieces of it which have been distributed about in various places.
	www.ggw.org /~ras/V2P171-3.HTM (661 words)

	Kansai Food Page Restaurant and Market Guides
		The opening of the Hyatt Regency Kyoto in March of this year has put some pizzazz into one of Kyoto's oldest and most historic districts.
		With the hotel just a room's view from Sanjusangendo temple, opposite the Kyoto National Museum, and a five-minute walk to Higashiyama mountain, the precinct now has some food to match its range of sites.
		Through December 3 you'll find Iwate Kura IPA, Minoh Stout and a few others at Beer Belly (06-6441-0717, www.aji-beer.co.jp/s1.html); then the next week from Dec 4-10 sister shop Beer Belly Edobori (06-6445-6366) will have Hitachino Nest Extra Hi, Isekadoya Dry Stout and Minoh Pale Ale and Double IPA.
	www.bento.com /kansai/index.html (1020 words)

	U B U W E B - Film & Video: Toshio Matsumoto
		The next one was also a documentary, a film titled Children Calling Spring (”Haru o yobu kora,” 1959)1 shot both in a mountain village in Iwate Prefecture and in Tokyo’s old town district.
		Since there was little labor power available in the lower levels of urban society, kids from around Iwate who graduated from middle school would be taken to the city to do back-breaking jobs.
		The reasoning was that since their life was already arduous, they could endure such work.
	www.ubu.com /film/matsumoto.html (6208 words)

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