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  Kitakyushu, Fukuoka
In 1876 Kokura prefecture was absorbed by Fukuoka prefecture.
Kokura was the primary target of the nuclear weapon "Fat Man" on August 9, 1945.
The novelist Mori Ogai lived in Kokura for several years and his house is open to the public in Kokura Kita ward.
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 Kokura Kita-ku, Kitakyushu - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Riverwalk Kitakyushu and Kokura castle moat in Kokura Kita-ku
Kokura Kita-ku (小倉北区) is a ward of Kitakyushu, Fukuoka, Japan.
The Kitakyushu Monorail terminus is in Kokura Station and serves the commuters and residents living in Kokura Kita and Kokura Minami Wards.
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 Kokura hotels, Japan, Kokura budget hotels, Hotels in Kokura, discount hotels in Kokura, accommodation in Kokura, Hotel ...
Kokura was an ancient castle town guarding, the Straits of Shimonoseki between Honshu and Kyushu in Japan.
Ferries connect Kokura with Matsuyama in Ehime prefecture on Shikoku, and Pusan in Korea.
Kokura was the primary target of the nuclear weapon " Fat Man " on August 9, 1945, but since the city had been obscured by clouds and Major Charles Sweeney of the Bockscar had orders to drop the bomb visually, they moved on to Nagasaki, the secondary target, where they dropped their lethal weapon.
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 Asia : Japan : Kitakyushu : - Travelling info, airline tickets, accomodation info, best deals, tourist information
Nakama city was to become the eighth ward of Kitakyushu in 2005, to be called Nakama-ku, Kitakyushu.
Hiraodai (平尾台) karst plateau and Mount Adachi (足立) in Kokura Minami ward; and Mount Sarakura (皿倉), and Kawachi (河内) reservoir in Yahata Higashi ward are all great walking areas with fine scenery.
The major department stores in Kokura Kita ward are Izutsuya by the Murasaki river and Isetan, in front of the South exit of Kokura Station in the former Sogo department store building.
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 Fukuoka Sights
In the Edo Period, the Kokura area of Kitakyushu thrived as a castle town, and with that a splendid castle still serving as a symbol of the area, Kokura promises to continue its development at a rapid pace.
Kokura Station, Japan's first multifunctional transport facility, serves both as JR Kyushu's largest train station and as a stop on Kitakyushu's elevated monorail system.
Kokura Castle, located in central Kokura, was first built in 1602 and then rebuilt in 1959, after it had burned down.
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 Kitakyushu,_fukuoka info here at en.album-gasoline-alley.info   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Nakama oppidan was to be reformed the eighth ward of Kitakyūshū in 2005, to be invitationed Nakama-ku, Kitakyūshū.
Kokura prefecture was founded separately from Fukuoka prefecture in 1871 when the clan proposal was abolished.
The novelist Mori Ogai lived in Kokura for rarefied caducity & her domicile is cleared to the posture in Kokura Kita ward.
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 Kitakyushu, Fukuoka - Cassiopedia, The True Encyclopedia
Together with Shimonoseki on Honshu the city is the major part of the Kanmon Straits area, which has a total population of about 1.3 million, and Kokura station in Kitakyushu is 20 minutes by shinkansen from the city of Fukuoka which also has a population of about 1.3 million.
Kokura Station is Kyushu's second largest railway station, with 120,000 users daily.
Kokura was the primary target of the nuclear weapon "Fat Man" on August 9, 1945, but since the city was obscured by clouds and Major Charles Sweeney of the Bockscar had orders to drop the bomb visually, they moved on to Nagasaki, the secondary target, where they dropped their lethal weapon.
www.cassiopedia.org /wiki/index.php?title=Kitakyushu,_Fukuoka   (1706 words)

  
 Get to know Tokyo
There are 23 wards in Tokyo and today this area is known as "Tokyo-23-ku" (with "23" in Japanese of course).
Each ward is treated like its own city and has its own ward office, which is a defunct city hall.
Forget that Tokyo is not even a city for a moment and an investigation will show that as a city (meaning the 23 wards combined, what used to be the actual city), Tokyo ranks somewhere around seventh or eighth worldwide in terms of population, depending on the source and year of statistic.
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 12."Scan globally, reinvent locally": Grassroots international cooperation
The Kitakyushu International Techno-cooperative Association (KITA) originated in the late 1970s when the steel industry in Kitakyushu was in the throes of a continued slump caused by an oil shock, a structural economic downturn, and appreciation of the yen.
KITA's achievements in technical cooperation played a big role in the city's success in attracting JICA Kyushu International Centre to locate here in 1989.
And it would not be an exaggeration to say that KITA's activities were a wellspring for the development of the city's international environmental cooperation activities, leading eventually to Kitakyushu receiving the UNEP Global 500 award in 1999, and recognition from the UN "Local Government Honors" programme in 1992.
www.iges.or.jp /en/ue/pdf/handbook/eng/story/storyi12.htm   (1701 words)

  
 Kitakyushu International Association
Kitakyushu City was formed in 1963 by the merging of 5 cities, Moji, Wakamatsu, Kokura, Yahata and Tobata.
This ward is located along the southern length of the Kanmon Strait, which joins Kyushu and Honshu islands.
Kokura Kita (North Kokura) – This is the central area of Kitakyushu, with numerous department stores, shopping arcades, hotels, conference centers, night spots, Kokura castle and the Kitakyushu City Hall.
www.kitaq-koryu.jp /en/02KCI/index.html   (1061 words)

  
 Aum Shinri-kyo Updates (CESNUR) - November 6-30, 2000
Joyu, 37, moved into a room on the fourth floor of a five-story apartment in the ward's Kanamachi district after residing for one month at an apartment in Kita Ward.
Kokura later blasted Asahara, who is being tried on multiple counts of murder for a series of crimes he is accused of ordering cult members to commit, the most notorious of which was the 1995 deadly gassing of the Tokyo subway system that killed 12 people.
Kokura also dismissed Ouchi's claims that because he was only obeying orders from Asahara - a figure the cultist revered like a deity - he was either not guilty of the crimes he was tried for, or at worst only guilty of aiding the offense.
www.cesnur.org /testi/aum_042.htm   (2583 words)

  
 Ace dental software ace - Dental office software   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The expression "Kokura 's luck "thereafter became common in Japan to refer to occasions when someone avoids something unpleasant without their dental office software knowledge.
The Kitakyushu Monorail links Kokura station efficiently and cheaply with residents and commuters in Kokura Kita ward.
It is a flower with the kanji of "Kita "in the middle of the Kagoshima Main Line J: Kagoshima honsen which is only 340.
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 Patentee Index
Kuwajima, Hideki; Kita, Hiromi; and Obata, Shigeo 07110221 Cl. 360-254.7.
Kita, Toshiyuki; to OS Co., Ltd. Rack with screen 07108142 Cl. 211-180.
Sugiyama, Koichi; Takao, Yoshihiro; Sugatani, Shinji; Matsunaga, Daisuke; Wada, Takayuki; Fujita, Tohru; and Kokura, Hikaru 07109128 Cl. 438-745.
www.uspto.gov /web/patents/patog/week38/OG/patentee/alphaK_Utility.htm   (9635 words)

  
 Cleverpedia, the ultimate encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Kokura () was an old fortress town in Japan.
Kokura is into the local parts Kokura kita () and Kokura minami () partitioned.
Rachel Ward (* 12 September 1957 in Cornwell Manor, Oxfordshire) is an British-Australian film actress.
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 Kokura Did You Mean kokura?
Kokura (??) is an ancient castle town guarding, via its suburb Moji, the Straits of Shimonoseki between Honshu and Kyushu in Japan.
Ferries connect Kokura with Matsuyama on Shikoku, and Pusan in Korea.
When the city of Kitakyushu was created in 1963, it was divided into Kokura Kita ward in the north, and Kokura Minami ward in the south.
www.did-you-mean.com /Kokura.html   (315 words)

  
 THE NEW SAMURAI (SHIN ONMITSU KENSHI) CAST CHARACTERS AND EPISODE GUIDE
February 1932, the fourth son of Jotaro and Mune (Arai) in Fushimi Ward, Kyoto.
He entered primary school in 1938 and in the spring of 1945, the year of Japan's defeat he had his higher education terminated and found himself cast out into the turbulent society of the time.
On board a boat bound for Kokura from Shimonoseki, Tonbei is rescued from a perilous situation by a samurai named Kage Shinnosuke.
www.home.netspeed.com.au /reguli/samnew.htm   (1543 words)

  
 Gibbs Reports on Prisoner of War Camps in Kyushu
A large steam electric plant was located within 500 yards of the camp installation, and surrounding it were steel mills and steel rolling mills, all producing Japanese war essentials, and relying, substantially, on prisoner labor to operate them.
To protect the prisoner personnel, as far as possible, from anticipated bombing raids, a new camp was erected in a suburb of Tobata [Kokura] about 300 yards from the bay, just west of the city.
Tobata is located at the north central tip of the island about 6 miles from Yawata in a northeasterly direction, and its coordinates are 33°56'N. The terrain at Tobata was flat.
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 Fukuoka - World Travel Guide   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Historically,it was divided into Hakata and Fukuoka, two separate cities divided by the central river, but although the main Japan Railways station is located in Hakata, and is called JR Hakata, Hakata-ku is now merely one ward of Fukuoka city.
Shinkansen services are offered from Kokura in Kitakyushu (20 minutes), Hiroshima (1 hr), Okayama (1 3/4 hrs) and Osaka (2 1/2 hrs), and through via the Tokaido Shinkansen from Kyoto (2 3/4 hrs), Nagoya (3 1/2 hrs) and Tokyo (5 hrs).
From Osaka to Kita Kyushu, it takes 6600 yen by Meimon ferry, but it is economy price, you can choose any price, higher and lower.
www.world-travel-guide.net /index.php?title=Fukuoka   (1362 words)

  
 Yahata Higashi-ku, Kitakyushu - Cassiopedia, The True Encyclopedia
Yahata Higashi-ku (East Yahata ward) is the second smallest ward in Kitakyushu after Tobata ward at only 36.36 square kilometres.
Residents have a very high average age, one of the highest in Japan.
The ward contains the Space World amusement park, which is popular with tour groups, especially from Taiwan and Korea.
www.cassiopedia.org /wiki/index.php?title=Yahata_Higashi-ku,_Kitakyushu   (182 words)

  
 vitamin E, Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis Literature
Harbige LS 2003 Fatty acids, the immune response, and autoimmunity: a question of n-6 essentiality and the balance between n-6 and n-3.
Harrison SA, Ward JA, Schenker S 2004 The role of vitamin E and C therapy in NASH.
Tomioka K, Kakibuchi N, Murakami Y, Kawakami T, Takaguchi K, Kita K, Okita M 2005 Effects of eicosapentaenoic acid supplementation in the treatment of chronic hepatitis C patients.
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 Spartanburg SC | GoUpstate.com | Spartanburg Herald-Journal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
At the start of the First Sino-Japanese War of 1894–1895, Mori was sent to Manchuria, and the following year to Taiwan.
In 1899, he was appointed head of the Army Medical Corps, and was based in Kokura, Kyushu.
In his literary journals, he instituted modern literary criticism in Japan, based on the aesthetic theories of Karl von Hartmann.
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 nitric oxide, Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis Literature
Kolios G, Valatas V, Ward SG 2004 Nitric oxide in inflammatory bowel disease: a universal messenger in an unsolved puzzle.
Kullberg MC, Ward JM, Gorelick PL, Caspar P, Hieny S, Cheever A, Jankovic D, Sher A 1998 Helicobacter hepaticus triggers colitis in specific-pathogen-free interleukin-10 (IL-10)-deficient mice through an IL-12- and gamma interferon-dependent mechanism.
Kumazawa Y, Kawaguchi K, Takimoto H 2006 Immunomodulating effects of flavonoids on acute and chronic inflammatory responses caused by tumor necrosis factor alpha.
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 Solor Success in Experimental Housing
In 2007, it will add the city of Fukuoka to its eco-friendly locations.
The air conditioning installation company, founded in 1977, has its headquarters in Kita-Kyushu's Kokura-Minami Ward.
After switching from selling electrical equipment to installing air conditioning several years ago, it added solar-power panels to its offerings in 2002.
www.megavolt.co.il /articles/SolorSuccess.html   (683 words)

  
 Environment and Aging in Japan: A Review of Recent Research -- Verderber and Song 37 (1): 43 -- Environment and Behavior
Matsumoto, A., Yamamoto, K., Odaka, S., Takemiya, K., and Yosida, K. Characteristics of ward plans: A study on facility planning for hospice facilities.
Nagahara, K., Ishii, S., and Matsumoto, A. Evaluating the effectiveness of small-scale care units in caring for elderly with dementia: a comparison between a psychiatric ward and a group home.
Yang, J., Funahashi, K., Kita, M., and Lee, S. Use characteristics of parks as places of gathering among the elderly.
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 KIPPO NEWS Wednesday, September 26, 2001
The Osaka session of the 14th general assembly of the World Tourism Organization (WTO), to be co-hosted by Japan and South Korea, will be held at the Osaka International Convention Center in Osaka's Kita Ward September 28-October 1.
This year's beer summit will be entered by more than 120 kinds of craft beer from Japan and some 30 other countries, including Germany, South Korea, Thailand, the Czech Republic and India.
During the summit, dancers participating in the Midosuji Parade will perform also at the Wonder Square together with Japanese entertainer groups who will introduce Japanese performing arts at the WTO meeting, including Gion drummers from Kokura, the Eisa dancing troupe from Okinawa and the Kawachi dancing troupe from Osaka.
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 More Info on Kyushu
Located in the north exit zone of Kokura Station, called International Convention Zone, adjacent to West Japan General Exhibition Hall (exhibition area; 6,930 sq.m).
International Center for the Study of East Asian Development became a foundation in January 1990.
Facility to accept industrial trainees from developing countries (KITA in charge of training).
www.kyushu.meti.go.jp /invest/more/mor_inter3.htm   (488 words)

  
 Toronto Kendo Club - Power of legendary swordsman drawing new wave of disciples
But there is one significant change at Tamukeyama park in Kokura-Kita Ward: The apprentices are now more likely to be European than Japanese.
Case in point: On Nov. 21, five young French disciples, each with two wooden swords, trained in the park near Musashi's statue put up by his adopted son and Kokura samurai warrior Iori in 1654.
The park commands a fine view overlooking Ganryujima, the small island in Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi Prefecture, where Musashi fought with Kojiro in 1612.
www.toronto-kendo-club.ca /modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=92   (726 words)

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