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Kagoshima is the southern gateway to Japan, therefore trade with China, Korea, Ryukyu and southern countries has been flourishing for many years, and western culture was introduced during the sixteenth century.
Kagoshima had concentrated enthusiasm on positively adopting western culture under the leadership of lord of Satsuma clan when Japan's isolation system had collapsed in the second half of the nineteenth century.
Kagoshima is probably the on]y city of about 550.000 inhabitants in the world, which lies so close to an active volcano.
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 TownNet.com - World > Asia > Japan > Kagoshima
Kagoshima is the place where both guns and Christianity were introduced to Japan.
Kagoshima International Association is a nonprofit organization involved in promoting international exchange throughout the prefecture.
K.I.C.S. was established in May 1990 by the City of Kagoshima, Japan, with the goals of contributing to international exchange and providing a vehicle for the further expansion of international friendly relations between the citizens of Kagoshima and people from around the world.
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KAGOSHIMA (Kyodo) A Kagoshima prefectural archaeological team announced Monday that it has unearthed the ruins of an early Jomon community dating back about 9,500 years in Uenohara Relics in Kokubu, Kagoshima Prefecture.
The Kagoshima Prefectural Buried Cultural Asset Center is the oldest ruins of a large scale hamlet in the country.
Compared to other Jomon remains in Japan, it is several thousand years older than the Sannai Maruyama Remains in Aomori Prefecture and about 2,OOO years older than Nakano B ruins around Hakodate Airport in Hokkaido, according to the team.
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 Kagoshima Prefecture   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Kagoshima Prefecture corresponds to the ancient Japanese provinces Osumi and Satsuma.
This region played a key role in the Meiji restoration, and the city of Kagoshima was an important naval base during Japan's 20th Century wars and the home of admiral Togo Heihachiro.
Kagoshima Prefecture is located at the southwest tip of Kyushu.
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 Sakurajima wo Mitsumeteru   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Unfortunately, earlier in the day, I told Liz, the JET in Kokubu, that I would be in attendance at her birthday party tomorrow.
Kokubu is the city just to the east of Hayato; to drive to Kokubu takes only 10 minutes or so.
Kagoshima City is the biggest city in the prefecture, and one of the biggest cities in Kysuhu, with a population of about 600,000.
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 Appendix B: Kyocera Corporation
The fine ceramics are manufactured in three distinct plants, one in Kagoshima/Sendai, the Kokubu plant we visited in Kagoshima, and another plant outside Kyoto.
The Kokubu plant is responsible for $1.2-$1.5 billion/year in sales, which is 25% of total corporate sales.
The Fine Ceramics Division produces a wide variety of materials: high purity alumina, high reliability silicon nitride (Si), high wear silicon carbide (used in applications such as mechanical seals), zirconia (used for scissors, knives, and watchbands), aluminum nitride for high thermal conductivity applications, cordierite, titania, and cermets.
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 Kokubu, Kagoshima -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Kokubu, Kagoshima -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
Kokubu (国分市; -shi) is a (A large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts) city located in (additional info and facts about Kagoshima) Kagoshima, (A constitutional monarchy occupying the Japanese Archipelago; a world leader in electronics and automobile manufacture and ship building) Japan.
As of 2003, the city has an estimated ((statistics) the entire aggregation of items from which samples can be drawn) population of 55,237 and the (The amount per unit size) density of 450.88 persons per (additional info and facts about km²) km².
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 NewStandard: 4/15/02
It had not been seen in 10,000 years and isn't expected again for another 14,000, but on Jan. 30, 1996, a ball of ice and dirt the size of Chicago revealed itself to an amateur astronomer named Yuji Hyakutake and soon to the rest of the world.
Six years later, Hyakutake, for whom the International Astronomical Union named the bright long-tailed object "Comet C/1996 B2 Hyakutake," has died, at age 51, last Wednesday in Kokubu near Kagoshima, Japan, of a heart attack brought on by a ruptured artery.
To escape big-city lights, which impede star-gazing, Hyakutake moved to a mountainside in rural Kagoshima.
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 New evidence challenges image of Stone Age
Because the finding includes not only the remains of two pit dwellings but also the remains of a road, a stone-tool factory and stake holes, officials of the board said that a permanent village may have existed here at that time.
If experts confirm the existence of the village, it could predate by as much as 5,500 years what is believed to be the oldest village built during the Jomon period in about 7,500 B.C., which was found in the Uenohara ruins in Kokubu, Kagoshima Prefecture.
He suggests that warm temperatures in Kagoshima may have enabled people to create a permanent residential village here.
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 Ibusuki, Kagoshima - Wikpedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Ibusuki (指宿市; -shi) is a city located in Kagoshima, Japan.
As of 2003, the city has an estimated population of 30,063 and the density of 384.19 persons per km².
This page was last modified 15:12, 7 Jan 2005.
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 Typhoon Chaba hits Kyushu, leaving 5 dead, 4 missing, 98 hurt   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
In response to disaster relief requests from Miyazaki and Kagoshima prefectures, Ground Self-Defense Force troops have been dispatched to rescue residents and search for missing people.
The typhoon is expected to continue to gain speed while passing over the Sea of Japan Monday night and head northeast.
In Kokubu, Kagoshima Prefecture, a small truck carrying two men fell into a swollen river.
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 trains
Buses for Downtown Kagoshima departs almost 10 minutes of frequency.
The time we leave depends upon whether we did the 3 hour tour of the volcano the day before: 9 am or after tour.
You don't have to change the train from Kagoshima to Miyazaki.
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 Meat and milk compositions of bovine clones -- Tian et al., 10.1073/pnas.0500140102 -- Proceedings of the National ...
Center for Regenerative Biology/Department of Animal Science, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269;
Kagoshima Prefectural Cattle Breeding Development Institute, 2200 Tsukino Osumi So-Gun Kagoshima 899-8212, Japan;
Kagoshima Prefectural Livestock Experiment Station, 2440 Uenodan Kokubu, Kagoshima 899-4461, Japan;
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 New Evidence Challenges Image Of Stone Age Japan
, Kagoshima - Archaeologists here have found evidence that Stone Age people of 15,000 years ago may have already been living in roofed dwellings rather than caves as current theories state.
The Ibusuki Municipal Board of Education on Friday announced they found the remains of a 15,000-year-old residential area at the Mizusako ruins here.
Takashi Inada, an archaeology professor at Okayama University, echoed Okamura's view, saying, "Globally, the remains of a (14,000-year-old) residence have been found in the Ukraine, but no remains of a village have yet been confirmed.
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 Tour Guide of industrial facilities in Kyushu for foreign people
You can also get more information from the PC.
If you take an airport bus from Kagoshima Airport then please get off at the Kyocera Kokubu-mae stop.
You need to fill in the specific application form.
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 Traveljournals.net - Kokubu, Kagoshima, Japan - Location on world map, coordinates and short facts
Traveljournals.net - Kokubu, Kagoshima, Japan - Location on world map, coordinates and short facts
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Maps and coordinates for Kokubu, Kagoshima, Japan are approximative and not valid for navigation.
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 Traveljournals.net - Kokubu, Saga, Japan - Location on world map, coordinates and short facts
Traveljournals.net - Kokubu, Saga, Japan - Location on world map, coordinates and short facts
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Maps and coordinates for Kokubu, Saga, Japan are approximative and not valid for navigation.
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 Occurrence Map List   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Nitanda-gawa River: Kagoshima Pref., Ibusuki City, Compatible with distributional range
Hachiman-gawa River: Kagoshima Pref., Kagoshima Ci, Compatible with distributional range
Shin-kawa River system: Kagoshima Pref., Kokubu Ci, Compatible with distributional range
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