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  J.League Teams: Kashima Antlers
Kashima's climb to the pinnacle of Japanese football can be traced to 1991, when the leading members of the JSL decided to form a full professional football league, and the man whose career inextricably linked top the Antlers success was Brazilian sensation Zico.
Kashima Stadium received a facelift in 2000 and 2001, to expand capacity and prepare it for the World Cup.
Kashima still has one of the best recruiting and youth development programmes in the league, and even as top stars have moved overseas, they have been replaced by younger players who show just as much promise.
www.wldcup.com /Asia/jleague/antlers.html   (1128 words)

  
 Atelier Aterui: Image Index: Kashima City, Ibaraki   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Kashima City, Ibraki Prefecture, is located is in the east part of the Kanto District, Central Japan, on the Pacific Ocean side of Honsyu Island.
The population of Kashima City is 64,275 (December 1, 2005).
Doubtlessly, it is the oldest Japanese shrine in the Kanto District.
p-www.iwate-pu.ac.jp /~acro-ito/Japan_pics/Japan_IKS/imageidx.html   (2371 words)

  
 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Ibaraki Prefecture
Ibaraki Prefecture was previously known as Hitachi Province, until the abolition of the han system in 1871.
Ibaraki Prefecture is the northeastern part of the Kantō region, stretching between Tochigi Prefecture and the Pacific Ocean and bounded on the north and south by Fukushima Prefecture and Chiba Prefecture.
Kashima District was dissolved as a result of this merger.
www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Ibaraki_Prefecture   (984 words)

  
 Japan Regional Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Ibaraki is located in the center of the Honshu (the main land of Japan) and about 40 km away from Tokyo.
Facing the Pacific Ocean on the east, Ibaraki is divided into three parts - the mountainous area in the north, the center-to-south stretch of the Kanto plains and the area containing the Tone-gawa River its tributary streams.
Kashima developed from old times as a relay point of the sea routes that have been used to voyage the Pacific Ocean.
www.asia-planet.net /japan/ibaraki.htm   (1848 words)

  
 The Sun Online - Venues: venues   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Ibaraki is a large prefecture (district) on the Pacific Ocean coast of Japan.
Kashima, is a small seaside town about two hours to the northeast of Tokyo situated in the southeast-end of the Ibaraki prefecture.
Kashima is not a particularly large town, but it has a very long history due to its location on a sandy peninsula near the mouth of the Tone River.
www.thesun.co.uk /article/0,,2002080002-2002120003_6,00.html   (1009 words)

  
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We also state the establishment of the Kashima development association, purchasing sites, and the movement of residents, the development of the industrial zone, the readjustment of the harbor, the advance of enterprises, the development of substitute lots, anti-pollution measures, concerted neighborhood actions and the readjustment for life environment.
In 1970, "The Kashima district and anti-pollution measure conference" was inagurated by inhabitants who had been apprehensive about air pollution, and they actively worked on the prefecture and companies.
Kashima, being a seaside industrial town, has held the view that, "Laying foundations for industry should be the first consideration of the city project." Therefore, it was weak in the point of view of a town for inhabitants.
www.city.kashima.ibaraki.jp /korea/1005.htm   (3493 words)

  
 Kashima, Ibaraki - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Kashima soccer stadium was used for the soccer World Cup in 2002.
The city also boasts the Kashima Shrine, a Shinto temple which is considered the birthplace of many influential styles of swordplay (Kenjutsu) in Japan.
Kashima is at the eastern end of the JR Kashima Line which connects it (through the Narita Line and Sobu Line) to Chiba Prefecture and Tokyo.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kashima,_Ibaraki   (224 words)

  
 Shimane Prefecture Summary
On October 12004, the town of Saigou and the villages of Fuse, Goka and Tsuma (all from Oki District) merged to form the new town of Okinoshima.
On November 12004, the towns of Daito, Kamo and Kisuki from Ohara District and the towns and villages of Kakeya, Mitoya and Yoshida from Iishi District merged to form the new city of Unnan.
On March 312005, the towns of Kashima, Mihonoseki, Shimane, Shinji, Tamayu and Yatsuka and the village of Yakumo (all from Yatsuka District) merged with the city of Matsue to form the new city of Matsue.
www.bookrags.com /Shimane_Prefecture   (681 words)

  
 Die Austragungsorte in Südkorea
Ibaraki is planning to create residential districts where people can enjoy both the convenience of modern urban life and the peacefulness of a rural community.
Mito, the capital city of Ibaraki, was one of the centres of Japanese authority during the Tokugawa Era (17th to mid-19th centuries) and was home to scholars, religious leaders, skilled craftsmen and artisans.
Kashima, home of the J. League team the Kashima Antlers, is a leading industrial and manufacturing base for Japan's industrial enterprises.
www.fussballtempel.net /wm2002/kashima.html   (283 words)

  
 BBC SPORT | FOOTBALL | World Cup stadia proving promise
Welcome to Kashima, one of 10 Japanese venues which will be used for the 2002 World Cup and one of three in use, a year ahead of the big event, for the Fifa Confederations Cup.
Kashima is part of the Ibaraki region, some two to three hours north of Tokyo by train.
While Kashima and the equally impressive Big Swan Stadium at Niigata (capacity 42,000) stage the group matches in Japan, the focus now switches to the 73,000 capacity Yokohama International Stadium for one semi-final, Japan versus Australia, and the final.
news.bbc.co.uk /sport1/low/football/1373104.stm   (643 words)

  
 Takemusu Aikido Kyokai ::: History
In 1937 O Sensei, together with his disciple Zenzaburo Akazawa, formally enrolled in the Kashima Shinto-Ryu sword school based in Kashima, Ibaraki prefecture.
In 1942 O Sensei Ueshiba moved to the rural town of Iwama in Ibaraki prefecture, north-east of Tokyo.
The Ibaraki Branch Dojo and Aiki Shrine are situated in the Yoshioka district of the town of Iwama, east of the Joban Line's Iwama Station.
www.takemusuaikidokyokai.org /main_files/history.html   (1142 words)

  
 Kasama, Ibaraki Encyclopedia Article @ Unglazed.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Kasama (笠間市; -shi) is a Ibaraki located in Koga, Bando.
As of Kuji, the city has an estimated Yuki of 29,776 and the Kitaibaraki of 226.24 persons per Pottery.
The elegant museum houses collections by a number of artists of international stature including Quick Index, Ibaraki Prefecture, and Towns and villages by district.
www.unglazed.com /encyclopedia/Kasama,_Ibaraki   (774 words)

  
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For districts, use the form [[{district-name} District, {prefecture-name}]]; e.g., Tosa District, Kochi.
Therefore, care must be taken to ensure that the browser is correctly configured to submit HTML form data in either the same encoding as the form itself, or forced to an 8-bit encoding that doesn't support Japanese, such as ISO-8859-1 or ASCII.
For example, Tochigi Prefecture; Kashima District, Ibaraki; Ise Province; Himeji Castle; Tokyo Station.
www.brujula.net /english/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style_(Japan-related_articles).html   (995 words)

  
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karlstadt county until 1972 (unterfranken district, bavaria, germany)
kaufbeuren county until 1972 (schwaben district, bavaria, germany)
city of kaufbeuren (schwaben district, bavaria, germany)
www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/k-k-3.htm   (131 words)

  
 An Origin of Shinto
There are many holes (38 holes in the Tsuji district), which seem to be used to burry the instruments and the remains after the rite, as the Ise Shrine has performed such custom until now in order to burry the remains of the ceremony.
The sword of the Kashima Shrine came to Hitachi from the Heavenly Highland via the Isonokami Shrine at Yamato.
The Kashima Shrine, the Hachiman Shrine, the Kompira Shrine, the Kasuga Shrine, the Suwa Shrine, and the Inari Shrine are among the most wide-spread and popular ones.
homepage.mac.com /abukuma/weberian/moriyukis/japan/shinto/shinto.html   (6885 words)

  
 Kashima - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Kashima, Ishikawa, a former town in Ishikawa Prefecture (now part of Nakanoto, Ishikawa)
Kashima, Kagoshima, a former village in Kagoshima Prefecture (now part of Satsumasendai, Kagoshima)
Kashima Shrine is a Shinto shrine located in Kashima, Ibaraki.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kashima   (125 words)

  
 Naka District, Ibaraki - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
There are districts with the same name in other prefectures, see Naka District, Kanagawa, Naka District, Shimane, and Naka District, Tokushima.
Following the January 21, 2005 formation of the city of Naka, the district is coextensive with the town of Tokai.
As of January 1, 2005 population data, the district has an estimated population of 35,467 and a density of 946.29 persons per km².
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Naka_District,_Ibaraki   (173 words)

  
 Lighthouses of the Tokyo Area
This area is on the southeast coast of Honshu, the largest of Japan's islands.
Replaced by a modern concrete lighthouse in 1948, it was later disassembled and rebuilt at the Museum of Maritime Science in the Odiaba district of Tokyo, a neighborhood on several artificial islands in Tokyo Bay that has become popular for its restaurants and other tourist attractions.
The lantern (probably with at least part of the mast) is on display outside the Museum of Maritime Science in the Odiaba district of Tokyo.
www.unc.edu /~rowlett/lighthouse/jphn2.htm   (4504 words)

  
 Kaumudi Online - Offline Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The district meeting of the Democratic Youth Federation of India (DYFI) will be held at Vadasserikkara, near here, from October 14 to 16, according to DYFI district president Roy Philip and secretary R Sanalkumar.
In a statement here, district secretary of the union Asramam Nandakumar said the health inspectors had, at the initial stage, diagnosed several cases of chikungunya along the coastal areas and submitted a report to the authorities.
The district administration would take a decision on whether to relax the curfew for sometime or to continue it tomorrow morning, he said.
www.kaumudi.com /news/100906/x_headlines.stm   (17665 words)

  
 GRAIN | Agricultural research for whom? | GE crop continues to be found around ports all over Japan: Spilled seeds ...
According to the MAFF report, the herbicide resistant genes were detected in 2 samples (6 seeds) among 7 samples (20 seeds) of rapeseeds that were collected within a 5 km radius from the port in Kashima, Ibaraki Prefecture.
The Ministry said that the reason why they did not find GE canola in Kashima port was due to the season and checking locations.
Ibaraki Prefecture also wrote up a guidance for producers that they must inform the local government before cultivating GE crops as well as obtaining consent from neighbouring farms.
www.grain.org /research/contamination.cfm?id=265   (1147 words)

  
 Ibaraki Prefecture   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Ibaraki Prefecture was previously known as Hitachi Province
Ibaraki Prefecture is the northeastern part of the Kanto region, stretching between Tochigi Prefecture and the Pacific Ocean and bounded on the north and south by Fukushima Prefecture and Chiba Prefecture.
The Prefecture is often called "Ibaragi"; however, the official name is "Ibaraki." It is also sometimes jokingly referred as "Chibaragi" combining Chiba and Ibaraki together.
ibaraki-prefecture.iqnaut.net   (172 words)

  
 Kaumudi Online World Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Before running aground, the 98,587-ton freighter, which was heading to Kashima port from Australia with 190,000 tons of iron ore, reported a fire in the cabin.
The attackers fled after police started firing, but district senior police officer Maxi Procter said he believed they suffered some wounds as blood stains were found in the area where they launched the assault.
The Tamil Tigers _ formally known as the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam _ began fighting in 1983 for a separate homeland for ethnic Tamils in the north and the east, citing decades of discrimination by the majority Sinhalese.
www.kaumudi.com /news/100906/world.stm   (5013 words)

  
 GMWatch.org   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Recent revelations show that imported GM canola seeds have been spilled around Kashima port in Ibaraki prefecture, and that the GM canola pollution has been spreading.
The Japan Wildlife Research Centre and others have established 13 checking points near busy crossroads within a 5 kilometre radius of the port, at 3-5 points and at distances 50 metres times the width of the sidewalk.
Presumably, the GM canola pollution is spreading throughout the Kanto district, and GM plants are possibly growing wild around other unloading ports, such as Kobe port.
www.gmwatch.org /archive2.asp?arcid=4224   (862 words)

  
 Pacific Islander
Not far from Seizan-so is a sign for a temple and as it was just a kilometer or two off our route, K decided see what it was.
December 3rd, we took our second trip up to the northern Ibaraki city of Hitachi Ota to its village of Suifu in hopes of viewing autumnal tints from Ryujinkyo (god of the dragon or celestial dragon) bridge, the longest suspension foot bridge in Japan - thus the title, "fall" from a bridge.
In the Gion district, one can occassionally see a Geisha (Geiko in the Kyoto dialect) or Maiko (Geisha apprentice) coming to or from an appointment - often just a glimpse as she leaves a restaurant and steps into a car to be whisked away.
pacific-islander.blogspot.com   (1718 words)

  
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Separately, about three kilometers away at the Kashima steel mill of Sumitomo Metal Industries, Ltd--the parent company's iron works of Sumikin Weld Pipe Companies--two cargo cranes were struck with one of them toppling in the strong winds and falling on a cargo ship anchored beside it.
The last gust report from Kamisu Town came from Kashima also: a peak gust of approximately 78 kts was recorded by an anemometer (alt 20 m) located in a Kashima factory between 13/1500 JST and 13/1600 JST.
According to their investigative report, the magnitudes of the downbursts occurring in the two areas were estimated at F1 (10-sec avg winds of 64 to 95 kts) to F2 (7-sec avg winds of 97 to 134 kts) and F1, respectively.
www.mpittweather.com /txt/oct03sum.txt   (9475 words)

  
 Observation _ What We Do
Japan is an long island nation stretching from south to north, east to west, and is located at the meeting place of four plates associated with active crustal deformation.
GSI had been performing mobile VLBI observations between a 5-m mobile type antenna moving to various parts of the country and the Kashima 26-m antenna located at CRL (now:NICT) in Kashima, Ibaraki.
And in Shintotsukawa and Kainan, the observation results were used to calculate new longitude and latitude values for shifting the national reference to the global common geodetic reference system upon the amendment of the Survey Act in 2002.
vldb.gsi.go.jp /sokuchi/vlbi/en/duty/observation.html   (419 words)

  
 KASHIMA CITY/The 35 years' history of Kashima development
Before the Kashima development project started, around 1955, people had been making their living by farming.
Others became migrant workers and headed for grain-leading regions around Azuma village, Inashiki district.
Therefore, the community of Kashima sought for an original method of getting sites.
www.city.kashima.ibaraki.jp /english/1005.htm   (3501 words)

  
 Industrial Parks in Ibaraki   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Starting in Tokyo, the Joban Expressway traverses Ibaraki from south to north.The Kita-Kanto Expressway will be connecting the Port of Hitachinaka with Tochigi and Gunma prefectures, and will hook with the Tohoku Expressway in around 2008.
Traversing the southern and western districts of the prefecture will be the Metropolitan Inter-City Expressway, which is slated for opening between Ushiku IC and Amihigashi IC in 2006.
There are four major ports which serve as Ibaraki's gateway to shipping:.Hitachi, Oarai, Kashima, and Hitachinaka.
www.pref.ibaraki.jp /indus/english/attract05/network.htm   (280 words)

  
 Hokota, Ibaraki - One Language   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
OneLang.com lets you search a huge database of reference and product information to find relevant, specific information on almost any topic.
Hokota (鉾田町;; -machi) is a town located in Kashima District, Ibaraki, Japan.
As of 2003, the town has an estimated population of 28,205 and a density of 264.91 persons per km²;.
www.onelang.com /encyclopedia/index.php/Hokota,_Ibaraki   (82 words)

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