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		With the cooperation of eleven municipalities across a large area and the local residents, we hope to convey the splendor of the region to all, and thereby further deepen the communication exchange between the cities and other regions.
		N: An area of 11 municipalities centered around Kashiwazaki and Nagaoka lying at the heart of Niigata Prefecture enjoys the blessings of the Sea of Japan and such natural features as mountains and forests.
		N: The area from Izumozaki to Kashiwazaki City to the west of Koshiji was known as an oil field in the Meiji and Taisho Periods.
	www.viewpro.co.jp /niigata/kinaseyae.htm (1450 words)

	Kashiwazaki, Niigata - TheBestLinks.com - Japan, July 1, Population, 1940, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Kashiwazaki, Niigata - TheBestLinks.com - Japan, July 1, Population, 1940,...
		Kashiwazaki, Niigata, Japan, July 1, Population, 1940, 2003, Square kilometer...
		As of 2003, the city has an estimated population of 87,125 and the density of 272.87 persons per kmandsup2.
	www.thebestlinks.com /Kashiwazaki__2C___Niigata.html (105 words)

	ONE-THOUSAND PROTESTORS MARCH IN KASHIWAZAKI AGAINST PLUTONIUM MOX AS SHIPMENT NEARS JAPAN
		Kashiwazaki City, Japan - Greenpeace activists joined over 1000 protestors who marched through the streets of Kashiwazaki City in opposition to the plans of Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) to load plutonium MOX fuel in the nearby reactor of Kashiwazaki-Kariwa, unit 3.
		Citing concerns over falsification of quality control, reactor safety implications, and the danger of nuclear weapons proliferation, the Greenpeace activists and speakers from Fukushima and Fukui Prefectures, as well as from Niigata, called for the MOX fuel due to arrive around March 24th to be not used in the reactor.
		Meanwhile in Kashiwazaki City, a council resolution will be debated and voted on Monday March 26th that opposes MOX use.
	archive.greenpeace.org /pressreleases/nuctrans/2001mar17.html (606 words)

	Shifting Gears: Gaijin - Something Foul is Afloat in the Harbor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		NIIGATA -- The body of a woman has been found in a refrigerator floating near a pier in Niigata Prefecture on the coast of the Sea of Japan early Tuesday, police said.
		KASHIWAZAKI, Niigata -- A boat abandoned at a local port, where a woman's body was found Tuesday in a refrigerator floating in the water, may have been prepared by the culprits to transport the refrigerator offshore, police said Wednesday.
		KASHIWAZAKI, Niigata -- A woman whose body was found stuffed in an old refrigerator dumped in the sea has been identified as a missing dental nurse, police said.
	shiftinggear.blogspot.com /2005/01/gaijin-something-foul-is-afloat-in.html (595 words)

	Japan News and Humor
		Kashiwazaki has been in the news a great deal the past two weeks, what with TEPCO problems and PM Koizumi’s trip to North Korea today.
		In fact, the mayor of Kashiwazaki may be the hardest working man in Japanese politics as he frequently has to travel to Niigata for a meeting with parents of the alleged abductees and TEPCO officials and then climb on the bullet train and head to Tokyo for a meeting with Koizumi.
		In other Kashiwazaki news, TEPCO revealed that it has operated the nuclear plant in Kashiwazaki for over 8 years with cracks in the shroud.
	www.crazyjapan.com /CJT--9-17_update.html (565 words)

	mox japanese plant (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		NIIGATA (Kyodo) The Agency for Nuclear and Industrial Safety issued a certificate on Friday to Tokyo Electric Power Co. stating that the company's plutonium-uranium mixed oxide fuel imports have passed safety inspection.
		Although TEPCO submitted to the central government a plan for periodic plant inspections, expected to begin Tuesday, it did not state whether it plans to use the MOX fuel in its thermal reactor or continue using uranium fuel.
		The utility had planned to begin using MOX fuel from Tuesday, but the Niigata Prefectural Government has been reluctant to allow Japan's first nuclear plant to use the controversial fuel.
	www.mothersalert.org /moxjapan.html (324 words)

	Niigata Summary
		Niigata Prefecture is situated in the central region of Japan's island of Honshu, where it occupies an area of 12,579 square kilometers.
		Niigata is bordered by the Sea of Japan and by Yamagata, Fukushima, Gumma, Nagano, and Toyama prefectures.
		In ancient times, Niigata Prefecture was home to the aboriginal Ezo people, whom government soldiers eventually conquered and forced northward.
	www.bookrags.com /Niigata (303 words)

	SurfWax: News, Reviews and Articles On Niigata
		Yokota was taken to the North from the city of Niigata in Niigata Prefecture in November 1977 at age 13.
		NIIGATA (Kyodo) A fireworks manufacturer in Niigata Prefecture has been operating at full tilt to produce thousands of pyrotechnics in time for a festival next month to celebrate the area's recovery from deadly earthquakes last October.
		NIIGATA Many parts of Niigata Prefecture experienced heavy rain on Tuesday, prompting Gov Hirohiko Izumida to ask the Ground Self-Defense Force to dispatch troops for aid operations, while an evacuation advisory was issued for thousands of homes, local officials said...
	worldcities.surfwax.com /files/Niigata_Japan.html (4430 words)

	Kyodo World News Service: Kashiwazaki mayor seeks Fukushima's explanation of MOX use@ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Kashiwazaki mayor seeks Fukushima's explanation of MOX use
		NIIGATA, Japan, April 3 (Kyodo) -- The mayor of Kashiwazaki in Niigata Prefecture, which hosts a nuclear power plant operated by Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO), demanded Tuesday that Fukushima Prefecture explain its plan to reject the use of plutonium-uranium mixed oxide (MOX) fuel at a TEPCO nuclear plant there.
		Kashiwazaki Mayor Masazumi Saikawa said Fukushima Gov. Eisaku Sato should provide a full explanation as soon as possible of his plan not to allow the use of MOX fuel, as it could affect...
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1P1:43261029&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf (184 words)

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		The number of foreigners living in Kashiwazaki is 701; 174 are from China, 168 from the Philippines, 93 from North and South Koreas, 69 from Thailand, 27 from Brazil, 11 from U.S.A., and the rest are from other countries（as of Nov.30,2000）.
		Niigata City, the capital of Niigata Prefecture, is located 80km north-east of Kashiwazaki.
		In Niigata City, there is a small international airport which has direct flights to Seoul (South Korea), Xi'an, Shanghai and Harbin (China), Khabarovsk and Vladivostok (Russia), Honolulu (U.S.A.) and Guam as well as several domestic cities.
	www.niit.ac.jp /english/general/kashiwazaki.htm (206 words)

	Japan Times: Hasuikes bring their children home (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Kaoru and Yukiko Hasuike, two of the five abductees repatriated from North Korea in 2002, arrived back in their hometown in Niigata Prefecture on Sunday along with their son and daughter with whom they were reunited the night before for the first time in 19 months.
		During a news conference in Kashiwazaki, the 46-year-old Hasuike said his daughter, Pak Yong Hwa, 22, has the Japanese name Shigeyo, and that his son, Pak Ki Hyok, 19, is named Katsuya in Japanese.
		Another of the five former abductees, Hitomi Soga, 45, left Tokyo and arrived in her home on Sado Island in Niigata Prefecture in the afternoon, after she was unable to reunite with her American husband, Charles Robert Jenkins, 64, and their two daughters.
	search.japantimes.co.jp /print/news/nn05-2004/nn20040524a1.htm (872 words)

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		Niigata Institute of Technology was founded in 1995 with financial aid from the prefecture, the local government and related industries.
		Its aim is to foster the technological experts who will assume leadership roles in the fields of science and engineering technology in the community as well as throughout the country.
		In 1995, Kashiwazaki won 7th place in the contest of the most livable city in Japan.
	www.jasso.go.jp /cgi-bin/user/univ_search_result.cgi?&univid=1231&prefecturename=Niigata (255 words)

	Japan Times: Series of powerful quakes rock Niigata (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The quakes caused power flouts to about 278,000 households in Niigata Prefecture and neighboring areas, according to Tohoku Electric Power Co. The gas supply was halted to roughly 14,000 households in the prefecture.
		In Niigata, three of the quakes measured upper 6 on the Japanese seismic intensity scale of 7.
		At a movie theater in the city of Niigata, people screamed and gripped their seats as the floor swayed from side to side.
	search.japantimes.co.jp /print/news/nn10-2004/nn20041024a1.htm (987 words)

	Niigata Prefecture
		Niigata prefecture was originally divided into Echigo Province and Sado Province until the
		Niigata (the city) is the largest and most important city in Ura Nihon, the half of Japan that faces the Sea of Japan.
		Nakanokuchi and Tsukigata in Nishikanbara District were absorbed into the city of Niigata.
	en.efactory.pl /Niigata_Prefecture (638 words)

	TEPCO : Nuclear \| TEPCO - Power Plants
		TEPCO owns 17 nuclear reactors, 10 in Fukushima Prefecture and 7 in Niigata Kashiwazaki Kariwa, and the total capacity is 17,308 MW.
		In 1997 all 7 units were in commercial operation with a total capacity of 8,212 MW, and as a result, this power station has become the largest nuclear power station in capacity in the world.
		It is located in Niigata Prefecture, approximately 220 km northwest of Tokyo along the coast of the Sea of Japan.
	www.tepco.co.jp /en/energy/nu/tplants-e.html (258 words)

	Niigata
		486,097), capital of Niigata prefecture, N Honshu, Japan, on the Sea of Japan at the mouth of the Shinano River.
		It is the main port for the west coast of Honshu and an important point for oil storage and the importing of liquid natural gas.
		Niigata was opened to foreign trade in 1869.
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/world/A0835663.html (152 words)

	NIIGATA GUIDE
		Niigata's shape is very similar to Japan's as a whole, and in the same way, Japan's diverse culture and beauty stretch to every corner.
		Niigata has everything visitors come looking for in Japan - from skiing in the mountains to surfing and sunning on the beaches, from springtime blossoms in the city to stunning fall colors in the forests.
		A visit to Niigata any time of year will give you the Japanese experience you have been dreaming of.
	www.pref.niigata.jp /sangyorodo/kankoshinko/en (123 words)

	Niigata village passes referendum motion on MOX fuel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Niigata village passes referendum motion on MOX fuel NIIGATA, Japan, Dec. 26 (Kyodo) - The Kariwa village assembly in Niigata Prefecture on the Sea of Japan coast on Tuesday passed a measure seeking a referendum on a plan to use a plutonium fuel mix at a nuclear power plant in the village.
		The village assembly which last year turned down the measure by a vote of 14 to 1, narrowly passed the motion this time, with a vote of 9 for and 8 against, to conduct the nation's first ever referendum by local residents on the use of such fuel.
		In the village assembly election in April 1999, candidates who were opposed to the plan made gains in the assembly partly because of a series of nuclear accidents in Japan.
	www.vanderbilt.edu /radsafe/0012/msg00484.html (422 words)

	Report (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The local assembly in Kashiwazaki City, Niigata Prefecture, which is the home base of that power plants, has approved an "exemplary tax on spent nuclear fuels." This is the first time such a decision has been made by a local municipality.
		However, no matter what the relationship between TEPCO and Kashiwazaki City is, whose interests are completely opposite, so even if we spent 10 years on this, it wouldn't work.
		If the Kashiwazaki format goes well, I'm sure there are many other cities and towns that would like to implement it also.
	www.cnfc.or.jp /plutonium/pl41/e/report.html (3428 words)

	Fuel arrive in storage site in Niigata nuclear plant (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The Niigata prefectural police mobilized 400 police officers to secure the area, while coast guard helicopters and planes patrolled the air.
		Antinuclear activists in the village of Kariwa have opposed the use of MOX fuel at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear plant, and plan to call for a local referendum to decide the issue.
		Niigata Prefecture is rapidly emerging as the front-runner to introduce MOX fuel for use in power stations in Japan.
	www.vanderbilt.edu /radsafe/0103/msg00120.html (715 words)

	Japan Today - News - 21 dead, 1,500 injured after 4 quakes rock Japan - Japan's Leading International News Network (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Niigata also hosts a nuclear power plant of Tokyo Electric Power Co but the company has said the plant in Kashiwazaki, Niigata Prefecture, is unaffected and running normally.
		East Japan Railway Co said all bullet train services linking Niigata and Tokyo were suspended Sunday as a result of a derailment after the quakes on Saturday, the first in the 40-year-history of the Shinkansen service.
		the ad for niigata hotels under "ads by google" is the latest example of the ironic and sometimes cruel function recently being used in that space by japantoday.
	www.japantoday.com /e/?content=news&cat=1&id=316529 (2005 words)

	Niigata - Current News & Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		NIIGATA -- A middle-aged company employee was found murdered with stab wounds in the neck on a futon in his house Friday, police said.
		NIIGATA -- The death toll in floods caused by torrential rains that hit Niigata Prefecture last week rose to 15 as a missing woman was found dead Sunday...
		NIIGATA-The death toll rose to 11 on Thursday in flooding that has ravaged parts of Niigata and Fukushima prefectures, while the region was bracing for another...
	news.daylightonline.com /Niigata.html (7123 words)

	AllRefer.com - Kashiwazaki, Japan (Japanese Political Geography) - Encyclopedia
		Kashiwazaki [kAsh E wA´zAk E ] Pronunciation Key, city (1990 pop.
		88,309), Niigata prefecture, central Honshu, Japan, on the Japan Sea.
		A resort town known for its hot springs, Kashiwazaki produces petrochemicals, machinery, glass, and lumber.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/K/Kashiwaz.html (122 words)

	ABC News: Japan Earthquakes Kill 7, Injure 700 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		KASHIWAZAKI, Japan Oct 23, 2004 — A series of powerful earthquakes and aftershocks rattled northern Japan on Saturday, killing at least seven people and injuring more than 700 as buildings crumbled, a bullet train derailed and roadways were torn apart.
		Altogether, at least 500 were injured several seriously in the surrounding area, including Nagaoka and the provincial capital of Niigata, the reports said.
		Railway officials said at least two trains, including a bullet train, derailed and some cars tipped over in Niigata prefecture, but nobody appeared to be hurt.
	abcnews.go.com /International/wireStory?id=191589 (795 words)

	NIIGATA GUIDE \| Nagaoka, Kashiwazaki : Festival, Entertainment
		The event began as a horse market, and the street performances during the event are a site to see.
		Held every year from July 24th to the 26th, this summer festival in Kashiwazaki is known for its folk dance procession and its fireworks display that takes place on the Japan Sea.
		It is one of the three major fireworks displays in Niigata Prefecture.
	www.pref.niigata.jp /sangyorodo/kankoshinko/en/contents/area/nk/fes/index.html (159 words)

	WISE NC: MOX PROGRAM UNDER DISCUSSION AFTER TOKAI-MURA ACCIDENT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		To the shock of the utility and the pro-nuclear Japanese government, Gov. Hirayama's statement came after his meeting with the mayors of Kashiwazaki City and Kariwa Village, on the border of which the TEPCO nuclear station is sited.
		The three heads of local government agreed that the Tokai-mura accident had cast a serious doubt on the safety of nuclear power and the people who live in the vicinity of the nuclear power station are very much worried about it.
		The Niigata governor and the mayors of the sites local governments will meet TEPCO executives and demand that the socalled "Plu-thermal" project be suspended by one year.
	www.antenna.nl /wise/521/5109.html (670 words)

	Search Results for Niigata - Encyclopædia Britannica
		Niigata lies on the coastal edge of the Echigo Plain at the mouth of the Shinano River.
		It rises at the foot of Mount Kobushi, in the Japanese Alps of Honshu, and flows north-northeast for 228 miles (367 km)...
		A castle town in the 1600s, it prospered with the discovery of the Higashiyama oil well in the early 20th...
	www.britannica.com /search?query=Niigata&submit=Find&source=MWTEXT (342 words)

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