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  Katsushika, Tokyo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Shibamata Taishaku-ten Nichiren Buddhist temple is in Katsushika.
Katsushika ward is at the east end of Tokyo metropolis.
On October 1, 1932, the former Katsushika District of what was then known as Tokyo Prefecture, and its seven towns and villages, merged and became part of the old Tokyo City.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Katsushika   (345 words)

  
 Tokyo Travel Resources
Tokyo Keizai University - Features university outline, faculties of economics, business administration, communication studies, contemporary law, graduate programs, international exchange programs, library and educational facilities, campus life, and map.
Tokyo University of Foreign Studies - With faculty of foreign studies, graduate school of area and culture studies, Japanese Language Center for international students, and Institute for the Study of Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa.
Indian Community Activities Tokyo - ICAT is an association of Indians living in the Kanto area of Japan.
www.internationalcircuit.com /tokyo-japan/resources.php   (945 words)

  
 Tokyo travel guide - Wikitravel
Tokyo is essentially a gigantic (and fascinating) warren of narrow streets with no names which is best explored using a mixture of the excellent mass transit system and your feet.
Tokyo has a vast array of sights, but the first items on the agenda of most visitors are the temples of Asakusa, the gardens of the Imperial Palace (in Chiyoda) and the Meiji Shrine (in Harajuku).
Tokyo is probably one of the safest cities you will ever visit, and Japan in general is one of the safest places to visit in the world.
wikitravel.org /en/Tokyo   (6183 words)

  
 Hino, Tokyo - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Hino (日野市;; -shi) is a city located in Tokyo, Japan.
As of 2003, the city has an estimated population of 171,309 and the density of 6,222.63 persons per km²;.
Hino is the home of Tama Zoo (多摩動物公園: Tama Dōbutsu Kōen), operated by the government of Tokyo.
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Hino   (183 words)

  
 Buddhist Channel | Japan | Monk with JCP fliers ruled not trespassing
Tokyo, Japan -- The Tokyo District Court acquitted a Buddhist monk Monday on charges of trespassing at a housing complex in Katsushika Ward, Tokyo, while distributing fliers for the Japanese Communist Party in December 2004.
According to the court, Arakawa entered the seven-story condominium complex Dec. 23, 2004, to distribute fliers that contained reports and questionnaires from the JCP members of the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly.
In another case, a Social Insurance Agency official who distributed JCP newspapers was fined 100,000 yen in June by the Tokyo District Court, which found that the official had violated the National Civil Service Law limiting public servants from engaging in political activities.
www.buddhistchannel.tv /index.php?id=44,3091,0,0,1,0   (534 words)

  
 ABC News: Authorities Find Unexploded Bomb in Tokyo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
TOKYO Nov 27, 2005 (AP)— Thousands of residents were evacuated in Tokyo on Sunday while authorities dug up an unexploded 550-pound bomb, believed to have been dropped by the United States during World War II, a local official said.
The bomb, about 14 inches in diameter and 47 inches long, was detected earlier this month in a residential area in Tokyo's Katsushika ward by Self-Defense Force investigators, said Katsushika spokesman Takanori Kato.
The evacuation came after a diver found 59 unexploded shells in waters near Tokyo on Friday, believed to have been left by Japan's former Imperial Army.
abcnews.go.com /International/wireStory?id=1349287   (238 words)

  
 Deaf Today v2.0: Worker at school for deaf children fired over sex abuse   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Kanamachi Gakuen, a school for children with speaking and hearing impairments in Katsushika Ward, Tokyo--the sole facility of its kind in the metropolitan area--has dismissed a male employee for repeated sexual abuse of a teenage female student who is deaf and mute, The Yomiuri Shimbun learned Sunday.
After the employee confessed to abusing the student, Tokyo Aiiku-en fired him and reported the case to the metropolitan government in late November.
Tokyo Aiiku-en said it could not yet make any comment as an in-house investigation was still under way.
www.deaftoday.com /news/archives/003555.html   (528 words)

  
 the_futures-lab
She is presently engaged with the Secretariat of the University Space Engineering Consortium, Tokyo, Japan.
She is a Board member of Japan Futures Research Center, Tokyo Chapter Coordinator of the World Future Society, co-representative of the Creative Futurists Node and a member of the World Future Society.
Rei is also Auditor of the Japan Association for Interpretation Studies, Moderator of the Space Generation Forum in cooperation with cooperation with UN and a member of the American Society of Training and Development.
www.futures-lab.com /index.cml-id=26.htm   (1372 words)

  
 SAVE A LIFE - Foreign Prisoners Support Service
For Rebecca Malthus, 28, and her newly arrived friend, Gina Smith, also 28, Tokyo was a glittering, humming world away from the usual Kiwi OE pilgrimages to grey, familiar London.
Tokyo District Court rejected circumstantial evidence and found Mainali not guilty in April 2000, but he was rearrested -- illegally say supporters -- on his way back to Nepal.
Original verdict overturned by Tokyo High Court in 2001 and Mainali was sentenced to life on the same evidence.
www.phaseloop.com /foreignprisoners/prison-japan.html   (2621 words)

  
 Imaizumi Sensei Interview
I was born in Tokyo on December 13, 1938 and started playing baseball at the age of seven after World War II ended.
At that time I was living in Aoto in Katsushika, Tokyo and attending junior high school at the Hinode Gakuen located in Ichikawa, Chiba.
As you know, the roads in Tokyo are complicated and crowded and it took us a long time to reach there.
www.formlessmountain.com /durangoaikido/imaizumi_interview.html   (8750 words)

  
 Tokyo evacuates 3,900 residents after finding WWII-era U.S. bomb - Orient Expat
Thousands of residents were evacuated in Tokyo on Sunday while authorities dug up an unexploded 250-kg bomb, believed to have been dropped by the United States during World War II, a local official said.
The bomb, about 36 centimeters in diameter and 120 centimeters long, was detected earlier this month in a residential area in Tokyo's Katsushika ward by Self-Defense Force investigators, said Katsushika spokesman Takanori Kato.
The shells, about 15 centimeters by 50 centimeters, were found near a port just west of Tokyo during dredging work.
www.orientexpat.com /forum/index.php?showtopic=5210   (360 words)

  
 Visiting the Tokyo Detention Center   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
As with most travel in Japan, public transport is probably the easiest although, if you do drive, there is plenty of free parking available at the visitor's entrance.
Going to the TDC from central Tokyo is very easy and takes approximately 30-40 minutes.
'Tokyo Detention Center Visitor Area' in Japanese is Tokyo Kouchisho Menkaishou.
www.justicefornickbaker.org /en/visit_info.htm   (1241 words)

  
 Tokyo Transportation Tips by stonefree - VirtualTourist.com
Getting TO/AROUND: Yagirino-Watashi -- it is one of the ferries of 15 reservoirs-along-the-Tone-River rivers which Tokugawa shogunate prepared in the early stages of the Edo period for the purposes, such as worship only for cultivation and purchasing daily-necessaries, or paying a visit to shrines and temples.
N'EX takes you to the terminal stations not only in Tokyo like Ueno, Tokyo, Shinagawa and Shinjuku but also in Kanagawa and Saitama; Yokohama and Omiya.
You will have the result by the exact names of the stations that depends on when to depart or arrive and also prefer or not taking the expresses.
members.virtualtourist.com /m/38046/ec9cc/9/?o=2   (730 words)

  
 Tokyo Residents Evacuate While WWII Bomb is Dug Up
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Tokyo Residents Evacuate While WWII Bomb is Dug Up
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www.poe-news.com /stories.php?poeurlid=54621   (142 words)

  
 The Tokyo Katsushika-Higashi Rotary Club   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The right signboard of the Tokyo Katsushika-Higashi Rotary Club School.
Two buddies add a third friend to their group.
Noy Ham, the 56-year old school director of the Tokyo Katsushika-Higashi Rotary Club School.
www.camnet.com.kh /cambodiaschools/school_map2/school_209_1.htm   (78 words)

  
 Takara's Modern Times
Japanese toymaker Takara Co Ltd President Keita Sato drives onto stage in a battery-powered vintage-style electric car called "Modern Times" at an unveiling in Tokyo January 22, 2002.
Takara hopes to drive into a new niche with the single-seat electric cars due to hit the market around September this year, which can be driven on the road, with an eight-hour battery charge giving the car an 80 kilometer range.
What will be required, however, is that Q-Car drivers have an ordinary driver's license.
www.electrifyingtimes.com /takara.html   (836 words)

  
 SGI News July 18, 2003   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Women and the Culture of Peace Exhibition and World Toys Exhibit, Respectively, Open in Nagoya City, Aichi and Katsushika Ward, Tokyo
Visitors at the exhibit in Katsushika Ward, Tokyo
On April 6, "Sharing Delightful Encounters with the Future: Toys of the World," a collection of 1,000 toys from 100 countries and regions, opened at the Techno Plaza Katsushika in Katsushika Ward, Tokyo.
www.sgi.org /english/News/nb/0307/nb030718.htm   (510 words)

  
 FOXNews.com - Tokyo Residents Evacuate While WWII Bomb is Dug Up - U.S. & World
FOXNews.com - Tokyo Residents Evacuate While WWII Bomb is Dug Up - U.S. andamp; World
Tokyo Residents Evacuate While WWII Bomb is Dug Up Sunday, November 27, 2005
TOKYO — Thousands of residents were evacuated in Tokyo on Sunday while authorities dug up an unexploded 550-pound bomb, believed to have been dropped by the United States during World War II, a local official said.
www.foxnews.com /story/0,2933,176798,00.html   (493 words)

  
 Las Vegas SUN: Authorities Find Unexploded Bomb in Tokyo
Las Vegas SUN: Authorities Find Unexploded Bomb in Tokyo
TOKYO (AP) - Thousands of residents were evacuated in Tokyo on Sunday while authorities dug up an unexploded 550-pound bomb, believed to have been dropped by the United States during World War II, a local official said.
A member of the Greenspun Media Group, publishers of: In Business, Las Vegas Life,
www.lasvegassun.com /sunbin/stories/w-asia/2005/nov/27/112700136.html   (228 words)

  
 Navigation-associated medial parietal neurons in monkeys -- Sato et al., 10.1073/pnas.0604277103 -- Proceedings of the ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Kojimachi 5-3-1, Chiyoda, Tokyo 102-8471, Japan;
Laboratory for Anatomy and Physiology, Tokyo Seiei College, Nishi-Shinkoiwa 1-7-5, Katsushika, Tokyo 124-8530, Japan;
Advanced Research Institute for the Sciences and Humanities (ARISH), Nihon University, Kudan-Kita 4-2-1, Chiyoda, Tokyo 102-0073, Japan
www.pnas.org /cgi/content/abstract/0604277103v1   (313 words)

  
 Justice for Nick Baker Board - NICK AS MOVED TO TOKYO
NICK AS MOVED TO TOKYO (Read 304 times)
I have very little information at the moment but just to let you all know that Nick was moved to Tokyo today, that was probably yesterday in Japan.
I will come back again with more information.
www.justicefornickbaker.org /cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?num=1075830765   (162 words)

  
 Wards of Japan - districts of large Japanese cities
Wards of Japan - districts of large Japanese cities
Home • Travel • Tokyo Travel Guide • Culture • Art and Music • History • Entertainment • Food • Geography
Wards are used to subdivide each city designated by government ordinance, as well as Tokyo (the "23 special wards").
www.japan-101.com /geography/wards_of_japan.htm   (127 words)

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