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  First American Flag to Fly Over Japan presented by Clifford M. Omtvedt, 515th CA(AA)
After Swedish Red Cross officials notified Japanese officials at Mukaishima Prisoner of War Camp that a verbal offer of surrender had been tendered by the Japanese high command, Japanese guards at Mukaishima Prisoner of War Camp relinquished their role as captors.
Affiant states that he was held as a prisoner in the vicinity of Manila, in the Philippine Islands, until August 25, 1944, at which time he was transported to the Island of Mukaishima, Hiroshima Province, Honshu, Japan, and was there held in a Prisoner of War camp.
The Flag raising ceremony was conducted before the assembled group of prisoners to the strains of “To the Colors” blown on a Japanese bugle which had been confiscated from the Japanese Forces guarding the prisoners.
www.angelfire.com /nm/bcmfofnm/mukaishima/omtvedt.html   (827 words)

  
  Hiroshima Prefecture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hiroshima is a traditional center of the Chugoku region and was the seat of the Mori clan until the Battle of Sekigahara.
Hiroshima prefecture lies in the middle of Chugoku, facing Shikoku across the Seto Inland Sea.
Hiroshima's main industries include automobiles (Mazda is headquartered in Hiroshima Prefecture) and shipbuilding (Kure was one of the main naval bases of the Imperial Japanese Navy and remains a major commercial yard).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hiroshima_Prefecture   (767 words)

  
 Mitsugi District, Hiroshima - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
As of 2003, the district had an estimated population of 29,682 and a density of 181.49 persons per km².
On March 22, 2005 the town of Kui merged (with two towns from other districts) into the expanded city of Mihara.
On March 28, 2005, the towns of Mitsugi and Mukaishima merged into the expanded city of Onomichi.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mitsugi_District,_Hiroshima   (112 words)

  
 Yamagata District, Hiroshima   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Yamagata (山県郡; -gun) is a district located in Hiroshima Japan.
As of 2003 the district has an estimated population of 29 978 and a density of 30.34 persons per kmandsup2.
This is THE essential collection of Penderecki works, concentrating on the youthful, ferocious instrumental pieces of the 1960s, along with a sample of his choral writing ("Canticum canticorum Salomonis").
www.freeglossary.com /Yamagata_District,_Hiroshima   (268 words)

  
 Hiroshima - Search Engine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Hiroshima English - A private English conversation school serving Onomichi, Fukuyama, Mihara, Matsunaga, and Hiroshima City.
Hiroshima San-iku Gakuin - A private Seventh-day Adventist co-educational boarding junior and senior high school with around 500 students in Daiwa Town.
Hiroshima YMCA International Business College - Accredited school offering an integrated program of language, cultural and vocational education.
www12.brinkster.com /myuae/cat.asp?/Regional/Asia/Japan/Prefectures/Hiroshima/Education   (296 words)

  
 ScienceDaily: Mukaishima hiroshima   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
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Otherwise, a theory of the alternative name of the "Tama-no-Ura" relates the origin of this name to a symbolization of the rock balls of the Senko Temple, or else to the family crest of the Ashikaga family.
Onomichi is located approximately at the center of the Inland sea of Japan, southeast of Hiroshima.
Beside the three islands located within the city limits (Mukaishima, one third of its eastern part belongs to Onomichi city, Momoshima island and Kashima island it is a scattered city and includes also Urazaki town beyond Fukuyama city.
park.org /Japan/Public/Hiroshima/htmleng/ecity05.htm   (404 words)

  
 Mukaishima, Hiroshima - TheBestLinks.com - Japan, Population, 2003, Square kilometer, ...
Mukaishima, Hiroshima - TheBestLinks.com - Japan, Population, 2003, Square kilometer,...
Mukaishima, Hiroshima, Japan, Population, 2003, Square kilometer, Population...
As of 2003, the town has an estimated population of 16,283 and a density of 884.95 persons per kmandsup2.
www.thebestlinks.com /Mukaishima__2C___Hiroshima.html   (95 words)

  
 Hiroshima Prefecture - Indopedia, the Indological knowledgebase   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The area around Hiroshima has been a center of trade and culture since the beginning of Japan's recorded history.
Saiki (renamed from Saeki in 1982; present Hatsukaichi, Hiroshima)
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www.indopedia.org /Hiroshima_Prefecture.html   (202 words)

  
 Javorie.com :: Regional :: Asia :: Japan :: Prefectures :: Hiroshima :: Education   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Study English online or at one of our schools in Innoshima, Mukaishima or Setoda.
A private English conversation school serving Onomichi, Fukuyama, Mihara, Matsunaga, and Hiroshima City.
Located in Kumano City, a suburb of Hiroshima.
www.exil.sk /directory/index.php/Regional/Asia/Japan/Prefectures/Hiroshima/Education   (303 words)

  
 Mukaishima POWs (Group Photo)
One having died, on 18 August 1945 at 11:00am, the surviving ninety-nine Americans raised a homemade flag in Mukaishima prisoner-of-war camp accompanied by “To the Colors” blown on a confiscated Japanese bugle.
The inscription on one of the plaques of the Japan-United Kingdom Friendship Monument, dedicated in March 2002 to the 23 British prisoners of war who died at Mukaishima states, “In November 1942, 100 British aircraftmen were brought here from Indonesia.
For the next five days, they traveled by various means to Mukaishima.
www.angelfire.com /nm/bcmfofnm/mukaishima/mukaishima.html   (423 words)

  
 Mukashima POW Camp - Hiroshima
Here in Mukaishima, the Hiroshima Prisoner of War Sub-camp No.4 was set up and the number of prisoners of war, including British and American men, totaled 216.
First, in November 1942, 100 British airmen were shipped from Indonesia to Mukaishima on the Dainichi Maru, and put to work in the shipyards.
Japanese school in Mukaishima honors the men of this camp.
www.mansell.com /pow_resources/camplists/hiroshima/Hiro_4_mukaishima/mukaishima.html   (325 words)

  
 The Cultural and Historic CROSSROADS of Japan / Map Search
Fukuyama, Tomonoura, Onomichi, Mukaishima, Shimanami SeaRoad, Mihara, Takehara
Leaving Hiroshima, the train travels along the Ota River and arrives in Miyoshi in an hour and 20 minutes.
If you were to travel by hydrofoil from Hiroshima port to the island of Shikoku, for example, 10 minutes into the trip you'd be at Kure harbor.
www.west-japan-travel.com /map   (1157 words)

  
 Ascidian News 39 - May 1996   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Mukaishima Marine Biological Laboratory, Faculty of Science, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima.
Some ascidians are known to accumulate high concentration of vanadium (up to 350mM) in their blood cells called vanadocytes.
High levels of vanadium were found by mere chance in the blood cells of an ascidian, known as sea squirt, by the German chemist M. Henze in 1911.
biol.dgbm.unina.it /ascidians/AscidianNews/an39.html   (11280 words)

  
 Ark English Academy: Innoshima, Mukaishima, Setoda, Onomichi, Hiroshima (Jobs)
Ark English Academy: Innoshima, Mukaishima, Setoda, Onomichi, Hiroshima (Jobs)
Location: Bordering the beautiful Seto Sea National park, only 16km from historic Onomichi city in Hiroshima.
Benefits: Enough to live, save and learn Japanese in this region.
www.arkeikaiwa.com /jobs.htm   (162 words)

  
 Sera, Hiroshima   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Sera (世羅町; -cho) is a town located in Sera District Hiroshima Japan.
As of 2003 the town has an estimated population of 8 562 and a density of 78.29 persons per kmandsup2.
It combines a heart rate monitor and an altimeter that comes with the included Suunto tran...
www.freeglossary.com /Sera,_Hiroshima   (451 words)

  
 AN50.html
Sci., Hiroshima Univ., Hiroshima, Mukaishima 2445, Hiroshima 722-0073, Japan.
Ascidians accumulate high levels of vanadium in their vacuoles of vanadocytes from sea water.
Some species in the family Ascidiidae accumulate vanadium at concentrations in excess of 350 mM, which corresponds to about 107 times that found in seawater.
nsm.fullerton.edu /~lamberts/ascidian/an51.html   (7298 words)

  
 Hongo, Hiroshima   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Hongo (本郷町 Hongō-cho) is a town located in Toyota District Hiroshima Japan.
As of 2003 the town has an estimated population of 10 991 and a density of 133.73 persons per kmandsup2.
Her last book, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award, was written more than twenty years ago, and...
www.freeglossary.com /Hongo,_Hiroshima   (208 words)

  
 Fukuoka POW Camp #1 - Page 1
I know every time I passed by Fukuoka International Airport, I would think about those who suffered building that airstrip, and those who rejoiced in finding frogs, snails or grasshoppers in the rice fields, making for a delicious roasted meal.
If you are a foreigner living in Japan, come August you will be sure to notice the emphasis in the media regarding Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the terrible A-bombs.
Hopefully these pages I've put together will add additional perspective.
home.comcast.net /~winjerd/Page01.htm   (3658 words)

  
 HIROSHIMA AIRPORT / ACCESS INFORMATION
Fukuyama Limousine bus, One-way: 300 yen (Takasaka Bus Station - Hiroshima Airport)
* The bus also stops at major bus stops within Innoshima, Mukaishima and Onomichi.
Acrobat Reader ver5 or later is required to view PDF files.
www.hij.airport.jp /english/access/bus/b05.html   (150 words)

  
 Nobu & Brad's Gay Life
Later that same summer, once things had settled down, we visited Nobu's hometown of Onomichi, a delightful historical city about halfway between Hiroshima and Okayama cities.
Nobu was actually born on Mukaishima Island, located in the Seto Inland Sea.
Brad had the chance to meet Nobu's parents, too!
www.geocities.com /cajapan   (1267 words)

  
 International Outdoor Club - Kansai
Opened recently in 1999, the Shimanami Kaido links Onomichi City in Hiroshima Prefecture with Imabari City in Ehime
Prefecture - an unique string of island to island bridges connecting six islands in all - Mukaishima, Innoshima,
The Shimanami Kaido also - as the only link from Honshu to Shikoku -
www.geocities.com /ioc-kansai/Event_April2004.html   (966 words)

  
 Bioaccumulation of Copper Ions by Escherichia coli Expressing Vanabin Genes from the Vanadium-Rich Ascidian Ascidia ...
Marine Biological Laboratory, Graduate School of Science, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima 722-0073, Japan
Received 23 June 2003/ Accepted 12 August 2003
Mailing address: Marine Biological Laboratory, Graduate School of Science, Hiroshima University, Mukaishima-cho 2445, Hiroshima 722-0073, Japan.
aem.asm.org /cgi/content/abstract/69/11/6442   (300 words)

  
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Please contact the secretariat of Hiroshima National Athletic Meeting.
Contact: General Planning Div., Hiroshima National Athletic Meeting Tel: 082-228-2111 (ext: 5916)
Municipal Kumano junior high school Budokan (martial arts center)
park.org /Japan/Public/Hiroshima/htmleng/espor425.htm   (30 words)

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