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	Mainland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mainland is usually the continental part of a region, as opposed to the islands nearby.
		Mainland Ireland as opposed to its offshore islands.
		Mainland Portugal as opposed to Azores and Madeira Islands.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mainland (355 words)

	Mainland Japan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mainland Japan (内地, naichi) is an uncommon term to distinguish the area of Japan from Okinawa and Hokkaido and the colonies that Japan used to possess in East Asia.
		It is somewhat confusing as Mainland Japan is defined to consist of several major islands (Honshu, Kyushu, Shikoku) and many minor ones.
		The term mainland Japan is also sometimes used to translate Honshu, the largest island, though naichi not.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mainland_Japan (94 words)

	JPRI Occasional Paper No. 8
		The dialects of mainland Japan and the Ryukyus are closely related structurally but became mutually unintelligible after they split from a single "mother dialect" sometime around 700 A.D. The Meiji government considered language "standardization" (gengo doitsu) an important policy that it later applied to the whole country.
		A central theme in the research of Iha Fuyu, the founder of Okinawan ethnography, and mainland anthropologists Yanagita Kunio and Orikuchi Shinobu, was that Okinawan culture, especially in it ancient forms, is of central importance to the culture of Japan.
		The American military prolonged its occupation rule of Okinawa until 1972, twenty years beyond the occupation of mainland Japan, and continues to "occupy" vast areas with its bases to this day in what is, unfortunately for Okinawa, a convenient staging area for weapons and troops to virtually all of Asia.
	www.jpri.org /publications/occasionalpapers/op8.html (5107 words)

	OLYMPIC VS KETSU-GO
		Japan Proper was in the process of being isolated from the Asian continent and from the Southwest Pacific region.
		It proposed to force Japan's unconditional surrender through a combination of lowering her ability and will to resist and the seizing of portions of the industrial heartland of Honshu.
		Some felt that Japan's disintegrating posture might encourage the enemy to press straight to the Izu islands and land in the Kanto area by the late autumn of 1945, in one fell swoop.
	www.ibiblio.org /pha/war.term/olympic.html (9330 words)

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		In Maui County, the number of visitors from the U.S. mainland decreased by 1.2 percent, the number from Japan plummeted by 32.7 percent, the number from other countries increased by 14.0 percent, and the total number of visitors declined by 5.9 percent.
		On Kauai, the number of visitors from the U.S. mainland increased by 2.8 percent, the number from Japan fell by 8.2 percent, the number from other countries increased by 3.2 percent, and the total number of visitors increased by 2.0 percent.
		On Oahu, the number of visitors from the U.S. mainland increased by 8.7 percent, the number from Japan declined by 1.5 percent, the number from other countries increased by 12.1 percent, and the total number of visitors increased by 5.8 percent.
	www.fdic.gov /bank/analytical/stateprofile/2004_summer/SanFrancisco/Hi/Chart2.html (274 words)

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		On Oahu, the number of visitors from the U.S. mainland declined by 1.4 percent, the number from Japan declined by 11.8 percent, the number from other countries declined by 1.8 percent, and the total number of visitors fell by 4.9 percent.
		On Kauai, the number of visitors from the U.S. mainland increased by 1.5 percent, the number from Japan plummeted by 44.9 percent, the number from other countries declined by 1.2 percent, and the total number of visitors contracted by 3.3 percent.
		In Maui County, the number of visitors from the U.S. mainland climbed by 5.5 percent, the number from Japan dropped by 31.2 percent, the number from other countries increased by 12.5 percent, and the total number of visitors improved by 2.9 percent.
	www.fdic.gov /bank/analytical/stateprofile/2004_spring/SanFrancisco/Hi/HI.article&dlink=Chart3.html (278 words)

	JPRI Working Paper No. 45
		Mainland business was to be induced to invest and thereby bring the islands up to the industrialization levels of the rest of Japan.
		Half of Japan's 174 land and sea mammal species are already either extinct or in grave danger of extinction, and the pattern for flora, other animals and insects, and bird life, is similar.
		In this, as in other respects, Okinawa is becoming 'mainland-ized.' Unlike the rest of Japan, however, the coral-protected islands of Okinawa are directly threatened by global warming and the anticipated rise in the level of the oceans, since the former may well kill the coral, and the latter inundate it.
	www.jpri.org /publications/workingpapers/wp45.html (7103 words)

	Understanding Okinawa's Role in the U.S.-Japan Security Arrangement \| Japan Digest (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Okinawa, Japan's southernmost prefecture is comprised of 160 islands, of which 50 are inhabited by approximately 1.5 million residents.
		As Japan's poorest prefecture, Okinawa and its citizens are particularly susceptible to economic rewards and sanctions from the government.
		Given Japan's reluctance to relocate U.S. military units to the mainland and Okinawa's dependence on governmental economic support, the island's situation is unlikely to change in the foreseeable future.
	www.indiana.edu /~japan/Digests/okinawa.html (1907 words)

	Invasive Insect Pests And Plant Quarantine In Japan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Changes in the number of imported consignments inspected during the period 1970 to 1998 in Japan are shown in Table 5.
		Japan opened her borders to the world in 1868, after a long period of isolation.
		Of the 201 insect species which have invaded Japan since that date, 54, or a quarter of the total, were introduced before World War II (1945) (Table 6).
	www.agnet.org /library/article/eb498.html (3103 words)

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		On whether the people living on the mainland of Japan now show much more understanding toward Okinawa since the rape incident involving an elementary school girl that occurred four years ago, 59 percent said that there was no major change.
		Japan asserts that North Korea is a threat.
		Some in the media are alarmed by such a Japan or are critical of it, arguing, "Militarism and nationalism are gaining strength." Others focus on the bright side of such a Japan, believing it is a part of the move toward becoming what we call a normal country.
	www.usc.edu /isd/archives/dsjp/summaries/1999/December/Sm991208.doc (7690 words)

	KO Kung Fu
		It is the main island in the Ryuku Island chain that extends from Japan to Taiwan.
		In 1879, at the end of the Kingdom of the Ryukyus, Okinawa was annexed by mainland Japan.
		Samurai of pre-Tokugawa Japan were required to be adept in a vast range of combat skills including kyujitsu (bow), kenjutsu (arrow), bajutsu (sword), sojutsu (cavalry), and kumi-uchi (spear and grappling).
	kokarate.com /okinawan.html (944 words)

	Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Ukiyo-e Virtual Exhibition: Activities: Poetry and Drama- Grade 10- Assessment Notes
		Japan’s position as an island nation in the midst of seas that could turn suddenly treacherous meant that the country was protected from foreign invasion for many centuries.
		Japan is surrounded by the Pacific Ocean to the East; The Soya Straight to the north; the Sea of Japan, the Korea Straight, and the East China Sea to the South.
		Japan’s climate is greatly affected by nearby ocean currents and the prevailing winds.
	www.vmfa.state.va.us /ukiyoe/ukiyoe_activities_poetrydrama_assess.html (5371 words)

	Tokyo Lets Loose Lapdogs of War
		Japan may have regained its sovereignty in 1952, but the decision to dispatch Japanese troops to Iraq earlier this month has reminded many of its citizens just how little independence the country really has — and just how much control the United States retains.
		Article 9, a key part of Japan's post-World War II constitution, prohibits Japan from using force in the conduct of its foreign relations.
		Chalmers Johnson is president of the Japan Policy Research Institute and author of "The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic" (Metropolitan Books, 2004).
	www.commondreams.org /views04/0218-08.htm (937 words)

	Traffic Bulletin: Vol. 19, No. 2 (November 2002)
		Eel imports to Japan from mainland China have grown rapidly in recent years (Figure 6), a factor that many of Japan’s eel farmers consider to be a serious obstacle to their industry.
		Following strong lobbying from the Japan Eel Culture Associations, on 27 March 2001 Japan’s Minister of Agriculture demanded that the Ministers of Finance and of Economics and Industries carry out preliminary research into the feasibility of applying such measures to eel imports.
		It was finally agreed that an import quota be established in mainland China for European glass eels, and a restriction placed on the number of ports of entry.
	www.traffic.org /bulletin/Nov2002/eels9.html (1224 words)

	My experience in Japan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		From May 24, 2000-June 11, 2002, I was stationed in the northern part of mainland Japan, at Misawa Air Base, Misawa, Japan.
		Misawa is in the north of mainland Japan.
		Misawa is in the Aomori Prefecture, in the Tohoku district of Japan.
	www.ctlopez.com /japan (1422 words)

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		Okinawa and Japan as a whole need to think about what it means to be a citizen of Japan and what kind of country Japan should try to become in the future.
		The proposal may be seen as preemptive, in that Japan is about to make changes, including the enactment of emergency legislation." Gabe is not taking a position against the security treaty.
		Japan, the host, will be put to the test as to whether it will be able to make the Summit successful, while getting along well with NGOs.
	www.stanford.edu /dept/SUL/wwwsul/test/depts/asrg/dailysum/Daily_Summary_2000/may_00/Sm000519.doc (1950 words)

	Marine Corps Gazette (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Prior to Okinawa being claimed as Japan’s 47th Prefecture in 1879, it was an island kingdom that was subjugated by the Shimazu daimyo of Satsuma and controlled as a vassal domain.
		However, when considering all of the bases and facilities required for U.S. forces in Japan, joint use facilities in mainland Japan are the intervening variable, and as a result, the statistics are that only 23.5 percent of the total land required for U.S. bases in Japan is actually in Okinawa.
		Many Okinawan and mainland Japanese officials have joined and called for the revision of SOFA because they see it as allowing extraterritorial privileges and feel it was forced upon Japan at a disadvantageous time.
	www.mca-marines.org /Gazette/2005/05stavale.html (1845 words)

	Political Affairs Magazine - Japan-U.S. talks must focus on 'removal of bases'
		This contradicts the Japan-U.S. Security Treaty that stipulates that the purpose of stationing U.S. forces in Japan is to contribute to the security of Japan and the maintenance of international peace and security in the Far East.
		The present plan is designed to strengthen the functions of U.S. bases in Japan through a mix of consolidation and the promotion of joint use between U.S. forces and the Japanese Self-Defense Forces.
		Japan should not accept this U.S. demand for U.S. bases in Okinawa to be relocated to somewhere else in Japan.
	politicalaffairs.net /article/articleview/339/1?... (789 words)

	CCTV lenses: Line yields digital, IR-based units (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		As a result, more makers are entering the line in the mainland, increasing supply capacity by 38 percent each year and narrowing profit margins by 5 to 10 percent.
		Mainland China makers are focusing on low-end lenses with a resolution of less than 10,000 pixels.
		Taiwan companies sourcing from the mainland said low-end lenses could be had at $3 each, lower by about 30 percent to 50 percent than those from Japan or 10 percent to 15 percent from South Korea.
	www.security.globalsources.com /gsol/I/CCTV-lens/a/9000000068388.htm (1215 words)

	PPI: Japan Exported More to Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Mainland China Than to The United States Last Year
		a small part of the Meiji-era overhaul of all of Japan's institutions, ranging from abolition of the shogunate to the introduction of compulsory education, creation of new diplomatic missions abroad, and on to the popularization of long skirts and hats with brims.
		In that year, Japan's new trade agency recorded 4.3 million yen worth of exports to China (at that time counting Hong Kong and Taiwan as well as the mainland), and 4.2 million yen to the United States.
		China has already become the largest export market for Korea and Singapore, whose direct exports to America have dropped as their mainland factories grow: since 2000, American imports from China have jumped by $52 billion, while imports from the five big investors fell by a combined $47 billion.
	www.ppionline.org /ppi_ci.cfm?knlgAreaID=108&subsecid=900003&contentid=252412 (659 words)

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		Although evidence is increasing for the inception of agriculture on Honshu, mainland Japan, as early as 5500 to 4500 B.P., during the Middle Jomon Period (Imamura 1996:101).
		In 1874, China and Japan signed a treaty by which China gave up all rights to the Ryukyus; this was the year of Okinawa's final mission to China.
		Following Okinawa's establishment as a prefecture, cultural ties between Japan and Okinawa intensified, and, as Haun and Henry (1997:10) summarize, Okinawa's political and social structures were brought into conformity with those of the reorganized Japan.
	members.tripod.com /williamsem/index_m.htm (4599 words)

	Marine move from Okinawa to Japan mainland discussed: general
		"If we do move anybody to mainland Japan either on a rotational basis or a permanent basis, I would hope we would be able to continue to expand our involvement with the Japanese self-defense forces," Gregson said.
		The presence of some 17,000 Marines on Okinawa, which was captured by US forces in 1945 and returned to Japan in 1972, has been a sore point in bilateral relations since three US service members raped a Okinawan schoolgirl by in 1995.
		"I think moving away from Japan moves us away from where the need is and where most of the problems are likely to occur," he said.
	www.spacewar.com /2004/040708180914.if0k6i7d.html (376 words)

	Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) subtype in EBV related oral squamous cell carcinoma in Okinawa, a subtropical island in ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) subtype in EBV related oral squamous cell carcinoma in Okinawa, a subtropical island in southern Japan, compared with Kitakyushu and Kumamoto in mainland Japan -- Higa et al.
		In mainland Japan, type A virus has been reported to be predominant.
		The presence and subtype of Epstein-Barr virus in B and T cell lymphomas of the sino-nasal region from the Osaka and Okinawa districts of Japan.
	jcp.bmjjournals.com /cgi/content/full/55/6/414 (4967 words)

	Free Port (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		While business in mainland Japan flourished, Okinawa having been constrained for the past twenty-five years under the restrictions and high costs of being a domestic out-port, received none of the benefits.
		Using Okinawa as Japan's southern international Hub, feeder ships can transport to and pick up cargo from the West Coast of mainland Japan at a lower cost than trucking cargo overland to the East Coast ports of Kobe and Yokohama.
		Some businessmen feel it is better to be a big rock in a small lake than a small pebble in a large ocean, completely forgetting that the potential of the latter would be 100 times what it is at present or more.
	www.accokinawa.org /About_Us/Position_Papers/Free_Port/free_port.html (1257 words)

	Japanese roots surprisingly shallow
		It is a controversial view of Japan's past that should raise eyebrows in a country of history buffs.
		That's because while Japanese archaeologists have come to accept the view that their ancestors migrated from the Asian mainland, most popular discussion still adheres to the pre-World War II ideology that the Japanese are racially distinct from other Asians.
		Recent evidence indicates that Yayoi people crossed from the mainland and were distinct from their Ainu-like predecessors in the Jomon Period — a finding that contradicts the common idea that Japanese have an unbroken lineage stretching back to the ice age.
	www.trussel.com /prehist/news146.htm (949 words)

	Focus on the Philippines
		With the normalization of relations, the US agreed to close down then majority of its bases in mainland Japan, but only if it could transfer their functions to the Okinawa.
		These feelings are rooted in what Okinawans regard as Tokyo’s sacrificing the people of the island for a suicidal defense against the American advance in order to give time for mainland Japan to prepare for the Allied invasion.
		This one came in the midst of a conversation I was having with Yukako Onaka, the head of the Teachers’ Union in Takatsuki, a small city in Osaka Prefecture in mainland Japan.
	www.focusweb.org /publications/Bulletins/Fop/Issue18_2000.htm (1517 words)

	Friday, August 17, 2001
		CAMP FOSTER — Typhoon Pabuk is gathering steam southeast of Okinawa, according to weather forecasts, and is expected to threaten mainland Japan’s eastern shores by early next week.
		The typhoon was carrying 74 mph winds and well organized, with a clearly defined eye, said a forecaster with the Joint Typhoon Warning Center in Hawaii.
		People living within Guam, Okinawa, mainland Japan and South Korea are vulnerable to the seasonal tropical cyclones.
	www.stripes.com /01/aug01/ed081701d.html (222 words)

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		"Kill Japan First" strategy (KJF) are as follows: Push Japan off the Asian mainland; cut Japan's cash flow; destroy the imperial navy; and offer only token resistance to Germany.
		On the other hand, if the UK bought an IC in India and Russia skipped an attack on Germany (see Germany's response) to move all of her tanks into Asia, you must proceed with extra caution.
		It will be way to valuable in defending the Japan sea zone with 2 fighters on board in the rounds to come.
	members.aol.com /wwiigames/cjf2.htm (1018 words)

	Friday, May 19, 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Mainland Japan ought to thrash out the matter, the root of it being the question of whether to keep the Japan-U.S. alliance in place; Proposals are desirable for the Government; High evaluation of the presence of the bases is quite natural; Universality of the security alliance unknown
		Okinawa and Japan as a whole need to think about what it means to be a citizen of Japan and what kind of country Japan should try to become in the future.
		Japan, the host, will be put to the test as to whether it will be able to make the Summit successful, while getting along well with NGOs.
	www.usc.edu /isd/archives/dsjp/summaries/2000/May/Sm000519.htm (2501 words)

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