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Topic: Sendai, Kagoshima

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	Sendai, Miyagi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sendai was incorporated as a city on April 1, 1889, as a result of the abolition of the han system.
		Sendai is known to be a relatively liberal area, which tends to favor the Democratic Party in national elections.
		Sendai is the center of the Tohoku region's economy, and is the base of the region's logistics and transportation.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sendai (3415 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Kagoshima Prefecture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		On October 12, 2004, the city of Sendai, the towns of Hiwaki, Iriki, Kedoin and Togo and the villages of Sato, Kamikoshiki, Shimokoshiki and Kashima merged to form the city of Satsumasendai.
		Kagoshima was bombarded by the British Royal Navy in 1863 to punish the Satsuma daimyo for the murder of Charles Richardson on the Tōkaidō highway the previous year, and the refusal to pay an indemnity in compensation.
		Kagoshima was the birthplace and scene of the last stand of Saigo Takamori, a legendary figure in Meiji Japan in 1877 at the end of the Satsuma Rebellion (Seinan Senso).
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Kagoshima-Prefecture (501 words)

	Christianity in Japan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		1549 Francis Xavier establishes Japan's first Christian mission at Kagoshima
		1613 Date Masamune, daimyo of Sendai, dispatches Hasekura Tsunenaga to Spain to petition Philip III (unsuccesfully) for the establishment of trade relations with New Spain.
		This was transcribed from Kodansha's Encyclopedia of Japan
	www.baobab.or.jp /~stranger/mypage/chrinjap.htm (3117 words)

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