Aomori Prefecture is the northernmost prefecture on Honshu and faces Hokkaido across the Tsugaru Strait.
On March 31, 2005 the town of Kamikita from Kamikita District was merged into the town of Tohoku.
The two major dialects of Japanese spoken in Aomori Prefecture are Tsugaru-ben (津軽弁) and Nambu-ben (南部弁); the former is prevalent in the area around Aomori City, and the latter is heard in and around the city of Hachinohe.
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The map of Aomori provided to me by JET seems to indicate that Kamikita is some kind of 4th, lesser region that nobody ever talks about.
In 2003Kamikita district had an estimated population of 112,411 and a population density of 68.01 persons per km²;.
Kamikita is where it's at, so you better recognize boi and show some respect next time you pass through the area while on the way to some place more interesting.
The lowlands in Aomori possibly were the most hospitable localities in the late Pleistocene, and they are all under Holocene alluvium now; many Palaeolithic sites might be buried too deeply for us to find.
In northern Tohoku (Aomori, Akita and Iwate prefectures) only two sites report pottery that might predate 8500 B.P. One of these sites is Kamotaira in Hachinohe City, in the drainage area just south of the Takase.
Aomori-ken Kamikita-gun Waseda Kaizuka (Waseda Shellmidden, Kamikita County, Aomori Prefecture).
Nature is abundant un Aomori Prefecture, though the prefecture also has many ruins and sites that date back to prehistoric times.
Rokkasho Village is located at the base of Shimokita Peninsula in the eastern part of Aomori Prefecture.
The area around the lakes and ponds inhabited by rare wild birds is known as a treasury of ancient ruins.
www.r-kk.com /english/index.html (565 words)
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Sendai looking for excitement or jobs, and Aomori records its population as having peaked in
caldera, lies on the boundary between Akita and Aomori Prefectures.
The two major dialects of Japanese spoken in Aomori Prefecture are Tsugaru-ben and Nanbu-ben ; the former is prevalent in the area around Aomori City, and the latter is heard in and around the city of Hachinohe.
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GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATION Mountainous area including Mt Mukai-shirakami on the prefectural border between Aomori and Akita Prefectures, in the north of Honshu.
The Kamikita cluster of kuroko type Cu-Zn-pyrite orebodies are hosted by middle Miocene volcanics in Aomori Prefecture, northern Honshu, Japan.
This part of Honshu is the northern part of the Tohoku Green Tuff Region with a similar Miocene geological history to the Hokuroko Basin 50 km to the south that hosts the largest of the kuroko type deposits.
Lee M S, Miyajima T, Mizumoto H 1974 - Geology of the Kamikita Mine, Aomori Prefecture, with special reference to genesis of fragmental ores: in Ishihara S (Ed.), 1974 Geology of Kuroko Deposits The Society of Mining Geologists of Japan Mining Geology Special Issue 6 pp 53-66
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It also kind of conjures up the image of a thinly mustached Ronald luring birdie and the fry girls into his den of sin to show them his "quarter-pounder".
Anyway, some of the Mc Donald's restaurants in Aomori feature a free bilingual comic that tells the exciting tales of Donald and the gang.
Yesterday I used it as part of an activity with my ichi-nensei students and discovered the following mistake...
Press release(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
An extraordinary meeting of shareholders held today approved the following subjects, JNFL announced.
To change the registered place of head office from Aomori City to Rokkasho-mura village, Kamikita-gun, as of January 1, 2003.
After the movement of the head office, the address of the newly registered head office is as follows: 4-108 Aza Okitsuke, Oaza Obuchi, Rokkasho-mura village, Kamikita-gun, Aomori Prefecture.
Aomori Prefecture is the north-most place of the main-island in Japan.
Mt. Hakkoda(spring, summer1, summer2, autumn),Lake Towada(spring, summer, autumn), Kamikita area
Hakkoda(the Mammal, the birds,the reptiles, the Amphibian, fishes, the insect), Lake Towada, Towada City,Shimokita area, Kamikita area, Tsugaru area,Hachinohe,
19.0 km (11.8 miles) NW of Noheji-machi, Kamikita-gun, Aomori, Tohoku, Japan
This first confluence on our path was on the way between the harbor of Hachinohe, where we arrived by ferry the morning of the 29th, and Hirosaki, an historic town famous for cherry blossom viewing at Hirosaki castle and park.
Yet the confluence was a few kilometers off the coast in Aomori bay so we weren't sure we would make it.
TI: Distribution and Concentration of Cs-137 in the Bottom Sediments along the Coast in Rokkasho Village, Japan
AF: Department of Radioecology, Institute for Environmental Sciences, Ienomae 1-7, Obuchi, Rokkasho Village, Kamikita-gun, Aomori, Japan, 039-3212 Japan
AB: Uranium enrichment plant, low-level radioactive waste disposal facility and nuclear spent fuel reprocessing plant are situated in the vicinity of the coast in Rokkasho Village, north Japan along the Pacific Ocean.
Head Office of Nuclear Fuel Transport Co., Ltd. (Shibadaimon, Minato-ku, Tokyo) and its Rokkasho Transport Operations Office (Rokkasho-mura, Kamikita-gun, Aomori).
Overview of the establishment and targets of review