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  Encyclopedia: Hiroshima prefecture
Hiroshima is a traditional center of the Chugoku region and was the seat of the Mori clan until the Battle of Sekigahara.
On March 22, 2005, the town of Daiwa from the former Kamo District (dissolved by this action), the town of Kui from Mitsugi District, and the town of Hongo from Toyota District merged into the expanded city of Mihara.
Hiroshima's main industries include automobiles (Mazda is headquartered in Hiroshima Prefecture) and shipbuilding (Kure was one of the main naval bases of the Imperial Japanese Navy and remains a major commercial yard).
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Hiroshima-prefecture   (4831 words)

  
 Gifu Prefecture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Most of the northern and eastern part of the prefecture is dominated by high mountains, and most of the population lives in the south, near the Nagoya metropolitan area.
On February 1, 2005 nine towns and villages from Ono District and the former Yoshiki District (dissolved by this action) merged into the expanded city of Takayama.
On March 1, 2004 all four towns and the village from the former Mashita District (dissolved by this action) merged, forming the city of Gero.
www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gifu_prefecture   (475 words)

  
 Chapter 16- Japan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Tôkai, the district east of the alps on the Pacific coast, is sunnier and warmer.
The Chûgoku region encompasses the prefectures of Hiroshima, Okayama, Shimane, Tottori, and Yamaguchi.
District courts serve as the principal courts of first instance, where ordinary civil and criminal cases are first brought to trial.
www.ibiblio.org /chinesehistory/contents/chap16.html   (21262 words)

  
 Motoderu Kamo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Kamo High School Includes principal's message, clubs, school trip, festivals and ceremonies, sports, cooking, and diaries of foreigners there.
Kamo High School 1200 Pupil High School, Covers years 9-13 with a roll of over 1200 students.
Gliding Club The Whangarei and Districts Gliding Club airstrip is situated at Whakapara approximately 20 kilometres north of Kamo.
www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Motoderu_Kamo.html   (254 words)

  
 Niigata Prefecture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
On January 1, 2005, the town of Yasuzuka and the villages of Maki, Oshima and Uragawara in Higashikubiki District, the towns of Itakura, Kakizaki, Ogata and Yoshikawa and the villages of Kiyosato, Kubiki, Nakagou and Sanwa in Nakakubiki District and the town of Nadachi in Nishikubiki District were absorbed into the city of Joetsu.
On April 1, 2005, the town of Oguni in Kariwa District, the village of Yamakoshi in Koshi District, the town of Nakanoshima in Minamikanbara District and the towns of Koshiji and Mishima in Santo District were absorbed into the city of Nagaoka.
On April 1, 2005, the city of Tokamachi, the towns of Matsudai and Matsunoyama in Higashikubiki District and the town of Kawanishi and the village of Nakasato merged to form the new city of Tokamachi.
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 Okayama_Prefecture   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The towns of Kamo, Shoboku, and Kume and the village of Aba were absorbed into the city of Tsuyama.
The towns of Yoshii (in Shitsuki District) and Bisei were absorbed into the city of Ibara.
The towns of San'yo, Akasaka, Yoshii (in Akaiwa District), and Kumayama were merged to form the city of Akaiwa.
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 JAPAN - LoveToKnow Article on JAPAN
Apparent proof has been obtained that the shocks occurring in the Pacific districts originate at the bottom of the sea the Tuscarora Deep is supposed to be the centre of seismic activity and they are accompanied in most cases by tidal waves.
Winter in these districts does not last more than two months, from the end of December to the beginning of March; for although the latter month is not free from frost and even snow, the balminess of spring makes itself plainly perceptible.
In the district on the east of the main island the snowfall is insignificant, seldom attaining a depth of more than four or five inches and generally melting in a few days, while bright, sunny skies are usual.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /J/JA/JAPAN.htm   (19610 words)

  
 Japan hotels, Travel guide
Shibuya district, near the tranquil Meiji Shrine and the modish Harajuku and Aoyama districts, is a popular shoppers paradise, particularly among young people.
Hiroshima, a former castle town, is the cultural, economic, and political center of western Honshu, and is reached in 2 hrs.
Ryotsu, the main town and hydrofoil port, sits on the shore of Lake Kamo and is reached from the sea by a narrow inlet.
www.cross-pacific.com /japan/where.htm   (5225 words)

  
 hiroshima   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Yamagata District, Hiroshima - Yamagata (山県郡;; -gun) is a district located in Hiroshima, J...
Kamo District, Hiroshima - Kamo (賀茂郡; -gun) is a district located in Hiroshima Pref...
Hiroshima University - Hiroshima University, in the Japanese city of Hiroshima, was established in 1949, by the merger of a number of educational institutions in the city.
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 Fukuyama, Hiroshima   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
After Hiroshima city it is the largest city in Hiroshima prefecture and is located on the far east side of the prefecture.
February 3, 2003 Uchiuma Town in Numakuma District and Shin'ichi Town in Ashina District are merged into Fukuyama.
February 1, 2005 Numakuma Town in Numakuma District merges with Fukuyama, dissolving the district.
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 wikien.info: Main_Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Serapicos is a Portuguese parish in the district of Bragança.
He was born in Volynsky District, in the Lipetsk Region of Russia, and graduated from the Moscow Energy Institute in 1982.
Sergiyevo-Posadsky District is a district in Moscow Region, Russia with its center in a town of Sergiyev Posad.
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 Higashihiroshima,_Hiroshima   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
As of the February 7, 2005 merger, the city has an estimated population of 170,851 and a density of 269 persons per km²;.
The city was founded on April 20, 1974 from the merger of the four towns of Nishijō, Hachihonmatsu, Shiwa, and Takaya in Kamo District.
On February 7, 2005, the towns of Kurose, Kōchi, Toyosaka, and Fukutomi in Kamo District, and the town of Akitsu in Toyota District were merged into Higashihiroshima
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 Kyoto - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The city is laid out in a grid pattern in accordance with traditional Chinese geomancy.
Today, the main business district is located in the south and center of town, with the less populated northern area retaining a far greener feel.
These include the Kamo Shrines (Kami and Shimo), Kyo-O-Gokokuji (Toji), Kiyomizu-dera, Daigoji, Ninnaji, Saihoji (the Moss Temple), Tenryuji, Rokuonji (Kinkaku-ji), Jishoji (Ginkaku-ji), Ryoan-ji, Honganji, Kozan-ji and the Nijo Castle.
www.sterlingheights.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Kyoto   (1259 words)

  
 Kamo District, Hiroshima - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Kamo (賀茂郡; -gun) is a district located in Hiroshima, Japan.
As of 2003, the district has an estimated population of 46,416 and a density of 114.99 persons per kmandsup2.
This page was last modified 04:58, 10 Mar 2004.
www.encyclopedia-online.info /Kamo_District%2C_Hiroshima   (63 words)

  
 Kyoto Prefecture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The Iwashimizu Hachimangu, a Shinto shrine in Yawata
The Towns of,,,, and were merged to form the City of Kyotango.
As a result of the merger, Naka, Takeno and Kumano Districts disappeared, reducing the number of districts from 12 to 9.
www.peekskill.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Kyoto_Prefecture   (770 words)

  
 Kamo_District,_Hiroshima   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
There is a Japanese city with this name, see Kamo, Niigata.
Four of the towns from the district merged into the city of Higashihiroshima on February 7, 2005, and on March 22, 2005 the remaining town merged into the city of Mihara at which point the district officially ceased to exist.
As of 2003, the district had an estimated population of 46,416 and a density of 114.99 persons per km²;.
q-basic.xodox.de /Kamo_District%2C_Hiroshima   (136 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Japan
At the head of each district is a sub-prefect, at the head of each village or town is a mayor assisted by a council.
The departments, districts, towns, and villages have a special budget administered by the general council, the district council, the municipal council, and increased by local revenues independent of the taxes raised by the Government.
The tribunals number 358; courts of cassation, 1; courts of appeal, 7 (Tokio, Osaka, Nagoya, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Miyaga, and Hakodate); lower courts (district courts), 49 (at least one to a department); courts of justices of the peace (sub-district courts), 301.
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 Niigata_Prefecture   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
On January 1, 2001, the town of Kurosaki in Nishikanbara District was absorbed into the city of Niigata.
On March 1, 2004, the city of Ryotsu and the towns of Aikawa, Hamochi, Hatano, Kanai, Mano, Ogi and Sawata and the villages of Akadomari and Niibo in Sado District merged to form the city of Sado.
On April 1, 2004, the towns of Suibara and Yasuda and the villages of Kyogase and Sasakami in Kitakanbara District merged to form the city of Agano.
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 MATSURI, KIMONO, HAKAMA, OBI, TABI, ZOURI, KASA, KATANA, NINJA, WARAJI japan, japanese, traditional, classic, clothing, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
To pray for a bountiful harvest of rice, a group of women clad in a traditional farmer's costume plant rice seedlings in a rice paddy, singing rice-planting songs to the accompaniment of drums and flutes, usually played by men clad inYukata.
This festival, held in celebration of the god of horses, is unique to horse-breeding districts as a prayer for the safety of horses and prosperity of their owners.
Praying for their happy reunion on this evening, people hang long narrow strips of colored paper on which poems and wishes have been written or other colorful decorations, on the branches of a bamboo set up in the garden or in front of the house.
www.shop-japan.co.jp /matsuri/yoteimaturi-e4.htm   (5572 words)

  
 Japan 4 Photographs: Kyoto Area   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Atom bomb air blast in Hiroshima stripped stones and bricks from the building and blew them into the ground.
The moat and stone bulwarks of Osaka Castle were a formidable defense during the feudal middle ages.
In Hiroshima, the A Bomb Memorial Mound where the ashes of over 70,000 people are interred.
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 Project Descriptions: Asia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
A preliminary view of the Setagaya district of Tokyo was drafted in time for the Vision Plus 7 conference in October 1999.
Kemang was selected as the starting point of this city-wide project because this district that easily represents the whole Jakarta in a compact fashion, with alternative cultural and environmental resources that are not yet known well enough by community and policy makers.
Peace and ecology after 1945 are the themes of the Green Map of Hiroshima, Japan, which is being created by Shoichiro Sendai, Associate Professor and his students at Laboratory of Architectural History and Design Theory, Hiroshima University.
www.greenmap.org /grmaps/asia.html   (4827 words)

  
 GoNOMAD--Traveling with Kids in Japan
Along the banks of the Kamo river, Japanese punk bands busk for pink-haired teens and in the cloistered Kaiseki restaurants, suited businessmen dine on delicacies to the refined sounds of koto music.
The dome itself is the preserved remains of one of the 3-4 buildings left standing in Hiroshima after the bomb fell.
Phoenix-like, Hiroshima rose from the ashes of nuclear devastation, a permanent reminder of the horrors of war, and of man's desire to end it.
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 Kochi, Hiroshima - TheBestLinks.com - Japan, Population, 2003, Square kilometer, ...
Kochi, Hiroshima - TheBestLinks.com - Japan, Population, 2003, Square kilometer,...
Kochi, Hiroshima, Japan, Population, 2003, Square kilometer, Population...
As of 2003, the town has an estimated population of 6,712 and a density of 79.26 persons per kmandsup2.
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 Kyoto Travel Guide, Japan, Kyoto City Guide, Kyoto holiday
The city lies in the mid-western Kansai district on the island of Honshu, surrounded by plains full of rice paddies.
The city may present a modern face, but explore behind the scenes in the outer districts or off the beaten track in the old merchants' quarters and you will glimpse cameos and images of traditional Japan, from cherry blossom to geishas, and bonsai trees to shoji screens.
Kyoto boasts one of the most famous Geisha districts in the country, a neighbourhood of plain wooden buildings to the east of the Kamo River known as Gion.
www.wordtravels.com /Travelguide/Countries/Japan/Regions/Kyoto   (1616 words)

  
 Kyoto Hotels
Kyoto's central business district and the city's finest shopping, restaurants, cafes and recreation activities are all within easy reach of the New Hankyu Hotel Kyoto.
Kamo River is also within walking distance, making the Hotel Rich Kyoto ideal for business or sightseeing.
Hotel Rich Kyoto has all of the amenities, facilities and levels of comfort you would expect from a hotel of this class and maintains the meticulous standards required by travel and tour operators worldwide.
www.japaneselifestyle.com.au /city.php?city_eng_text=Kyoto   (3266 words)

  
 Bridgemeister - Suspension Bridges of Japan
One of a pair of "Bridges of the Royal White Dragons".
Near Hakuryuou (King of the White Dragon) - Ejiro, Mizukami Village, Kuma District, Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan (Hakusui Falls).
Near Hakuryu Kisaki (Queen of the White Dragon) - Ejiro, Mizukami Village, Kuma District, Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan (Hakusui Falls).
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 Travel.3Yen.com - Travel in Japan - Japanese Travel
The Tokyo Metropolitan District (東京都 Tōkyō-to) includes 23 central wards (区 ku) near the bay and several outlying cities and towns (市 shi) to the west.
The Koshin’etsu district is also known as Snow Country (雪国 Yukiguni), since it receives some of the heaviest snowfall in the world.
The flagstone-paved streets and traditional buildings of the Gion district, located to the north-west of Kiyomizu Temple, are where you’re most likely to see geisha in Kyoto, scurrying between buildings.
travel.3yen.com   (10876 words)

  
 Hiroshima Prefecture Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
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 A Beginner's Guide to Cherry Blossom Viewing: Popular Hanami Spots
Large numbers of weeping cherry trees (shidarezakura) stand in the garden of Heian Shrine, behind the shrine's main buildings.
Arashiyama is a pleasant district in the outskirts of Kyoto.
The city of Kakunodate is famous for its weeping cherry trees, which decorate the city's well preserved, former samurai district.
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