Barmy bureaucrats are known throughout the world for coming up with daft ideas, but peculiar pen pushers in Japan are among the best of them, according to Nikkan Gendai (4/18), coming up with ordinances that seem to be in the best interests of residents, but all too often carrying riotous repercussions.
Kisei in Mie Prefecture has had a loopy law on the books for the past five years as it struggles to find brides for the town's growing numbers of single, 30-something men.
Nanto's plan to get kids into its public high school by offering them 50,000 yen when they start and another 150,000 yen upon graduation attracted 35 students, an unprecedented number for the Mie Prefecture town.
It would be the first time for a plebiscite to be held on a nuclear power plant before its location had been decided by a power company.
Miyama, population around 10,000, is close to the towns of Nanto and Kisei, where strong opposition by residents in February 2000 forced Chubu Electric Power Co. to abandon its plan to build a nuclear power plant there.
Since the 1980s, some members of the local business community, hoping to revive the area, have been pressing for the town to invite the company to build a nuclear power plant in Miyama, where the population consists mainly of elderly people.
And the deadly martial arts Hokuto Shin Ken and Nanto Sei Ken. These two groups are not allowed to fight each other; if they do, this world will be destroyed.
You are a woman of the Nanto Sei Ken bloodline.
Jagi: I heard there was a man of the Nanto Suichou Ken style at that village.
We woke up and checked on the moped, which got the heater instead of me. The idea was that if it were warm in the morning, the bike would start, but alas, no. So instead of taking the bikes around, Ben and I went on his bike to another jet man's place.
The area was beautiful and early in the morning, there was a mist rising off of the mountains that were still covered in frost.
After getting back, around noonish, we had some lunch and started out for a hotspring out in the next prefecture west of Mie, where Nanto is located.
(Kyodo) A town assembly panel in Miyama, Mie Prefecture, is expected to discuss next week whether it should hold a plebiscite on hosting a nuclear power plant that other prefectural towns have rejected, assembly officials said Thursday.
Chubu Electric Power Co. originally intended to set up a nuclear power plant in Ashihama, a coastal area stretching between Kisei and Nanto.
The plan was conceived in 1964, but strong local opposition forced the Nagoya-based utility to ditch it in February 2000.
The Nanto dialects are used by Okinawa islanders from the Amami Islands in Kagoshima prefecture to Yonaguni Island at the western end of the archipelago.
Each rural settlement has at least one shrine of its own, and there are several shrines of national significance, the most important of which is the Grand Shrine of Ise in Mie prefecture.
Many of the ceremonies associated with the birth of a child and the rites of passage to adulthood are associated with Shinto.
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The pro-nuclear side promised the plant would bring an economic revival; Suzu's population has been dropping steeply, and revenues cover only 25 percent of its budget (DY 16/20 June).
In Mie Prefecture, Nanto's incumbent mayor, who had pledged to stop Chubu Electric Power Co. from building a plant, won re-election.
The challenger also opposed the project (JT 6 August).
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Ken was trained up with his evil half-brother Shin, the Fist of the South Star, and who represents a polar opposite from him.
He practices Nanto Seiken, a martial art that destroys from without.
But Shin stole Ken's beloved Julia, this after fighting our hero, marking his chest with the seven distinctive scars which echo the sign of the Big Dipper and leaving him for dead.
When supremo bad guy Shin (Toshio Furukawa) steals Ken’s girlfriend, Yuria or Julia, depending on what language you listen to the movie in, your no-so-ordinary macho conflict erupts.
Shin is the dichotomous other half of Ken—a master of the Nanto Seiken style of fighting, which is complementary and contrary to Ken’s.
Their fight scenes are exceptional, no holds bared, grudge contests that light up the screen.
The use of saturated aqueous solution of boric acid instead of distilled water was necessary to hinder the re-dissolution of boron from the formed gel film.
!14 Paper #: 3136-25 Fluorescent thin gel films using organic dyes and pigments, pp.159-167 Author(s): Hiroyuki Nakazumi, Osaka Prefecture Univ., Sakai, Osaka, Japan; Tarao Takashi, Osaka Prefecture Univ., Sakai, Osaka, Japan; Shin-ichi Taniguchi, Kanazawa Univ., Kanazawa Ishikawa, Japan; Hidehito Nanto, Kanazawa Institute of Technology, Ishikawa, Japan.
Abstract: New organic-inorganic fluorescent thin gel films included with laser dyes or fluorescent organic pigments have been prepared for display application.
TOKYO - Chubu Electric Power Co (TSE: 9502) says it is scrapping a plan to build a nuclear power plant bordering the towns of Kisei and Nanto in Mie prefecture in central Japan.
The announcement came hours after Mie Governor Masayasu Kitagawa told the prefectural assembly that the power company should ditch the plan, which was first proposed 37 years ago.
