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	DISCOVER MIE
		Mie is on Japan's Pacific coast and enjoys four distinct seasons.
		CL PK 259 Kita-Marunouchi, Tsu-city, Mie 514-0031 JR or Kintetsu Tsu STN - 5 min.
		CB PK 3-47 Sakaemachi, Tsu-city, Mie 514-0004 JR or Kintetsu Tsu STN - 1 min.
	www.kankomie.or.jp /kanko/discover/info/useful.html (787 words)

	Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > Mie prefecture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Geography Mie prefecture is bordered by Aichi, Gifu, Shiga, Kyoto, Nara, and Wakayama.
		As of 2000 Mie prefecture's 5,776.44 km²; landmass is divided into 64.8% forest, 11.5% agriculture, 6% residential area, 3.8% roads, and 3.6% rivers.
		Miscellaneous topics Mie prefecture is famous for the Mikimoto pearl island formerly known as Ojima island, the shinto shrine[?] in Ise[?] built in the 1st century, the invetion of Ninja spies at Ueno castle, the wedded rocks at Futamigaura beach, and Matsuzaka beef[?].
	www.kids.net.au /encyclopedia-wiki/mi/Mie_prefecture?title=Tsu (164 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Mie Prefecture
		Mie Prefecture forms the eastern part of the Kii Peninsula, and is bordered by Aichi, Gifu, Shiga, Kyoto, Nara, and Wakayama.
		Shima District was dissolved as a result of this merger.
		November 1, 2004-The city of Ueno; the towns of Iga, Ayama, Shimagahara, and Aoyama; the village of Ōyamada; and the districts of Ayama and Naga merged to form the city of Iga.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Mie_Prefecture (715 words)

	The State of Mie's Environment
		The emission of carbon dioxide in Mie Prefecture in 1998 was 1.057 in the ratio to 1990.
		Mie Prefecture is blessed with a natural environment diversified and beautiful such as calm Ise Bay, Kumano rough sea known for the rough waves of the Pacific, steep Mt. Suzuka, magnificent Mt. Daiko and various clear streams or community wood- lands.
		Mie prefectural Environmental Education Information Center is making efforts to become a facility that people, from children to adults, can use as a foothold for environmental education, study and information dispatch.
	www.eco.pref.mie.jp /data-syu/hakusho/h14/English/2002main03_e.htm (1946 words)

	AEG - Mie's Prefecture's Profile
		The climate of Mie much varies in different localities, for the prefecture is not only long from north to south, but composed of such a wide variety of topography, as the Iga Basin between the mountains, the Ise Plains, and the Sea of Kumano in the south.
		Mie is a long-shapen prefecture, situated in the extreme east of the Kinki Districts and bordered by the Chubu Districts.
		The city of Ise and the whole Shima Peninsula, appointed as a national park, are the pivot of the tourism in Mie.
	www.infowest.com /personal/r/rpurcell/mie.html (720 words)

	Lighthouses of the Tokyo Area
		The words saki and misaki are for capes and headlands, shima (also spelled sima or jima) is an island, wan is a bay, and ko is a harbor.
		Okino Shima is a small island, now joined to the mainland by a causeway, marking the entrance to the harbor of Tateyama, the port sheltered by Suno Saki.
		Misaki Ko ("Cape Harbor") is the harbor sheltered behind Zyoga Shima, at the southwestern corner of the Miura Peninsula.
	www.unc.edu /~rowlett/lighthouse/jphn2.htm (4504 words)

	Mie_District,_Mie Information - Online Prescription Medication Directory
		Mie (???; -gun) is a district located in Mie, Japan.
		As of 2003, the district has an estimated population of 68,660 and a density of 530.81 persons per km².
		On February 7, 2005, the town of Kusu was dissolved after it was merged into the city of Yokkaichi.
	www.prescriptiondrug-info.com /drug_information_online.asp?title=Mie_District,_Mie (63 words)

	Mie Summary
		Mie Prefecture is situated in the central region of Japan's island of Honshu, where it occupies an area of 5,778 square kilometers.
		Mie is bordered by Ise Bay and the Kumano Sea, and by Wakayama, Nara, Kyoto, Shiga, Gifu, and Aichi Prefectures.
		The erection of the Ise Shrine, devoted to the mythical ancestors of the Imperial family and long the nation's principal Shinto pilgrimage destination, as early as the third century contributed to the region's rapid growth.
	www.bookrags.com /Mie (396 words)

	Japan : Regions in Brief (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Kanto District -- Located in east-central Honshu and comprising metropolitan Tokyo and six prefectures, this district is characterized by the Kanto Plain, the largest flatland in Japan.
		Chubu District -- The Chubu (Central) District lies between Tokyo and Kyoto and straddles central Honshu from the Pacific Ocean to the Japan Sea, encompassing nine prefectures.
		Known as the Tohoku District, it isn't nearly as developed as the central and southern districts of Honshu, due in large part to its rugged, mountainous terrain and harsh climate.
	www.frommers.com /destinations/print-narrative.cfm?destID=229&catID=0229020814 (1351 words)

	Japan Regional Information
		Mie is situated in the center of the Honshu Island (the mainland of Japan), in the eastern part of the Kii-hanto Peninsula that juts out into the Pacific Ocean.
		Mie is a home for the tradition and the modernity, and welcomes a ceaseless flow of visitors.
		Yunoyama-onsen is a hot spring resort dotted with inns on the slope with the altitude of 318 meters along the Mitaki-gawa River in the north Mie.
	www.asia-planet.net /japan/mei.htm (2851 words)

	Kokichi Mikimoto (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Born as the first son of a noodle shop owner in Toba, Mie prefecture he left school at the age of 13 selling vegetables to support the family.
		Seeing the pearl divers of Ise unloading their treasures at the shore in his childhood started the fascination with pearls.
		In 1888 he obtained a loan to start his first pearl farm at the Shinmei inlet in Shima province (now Mie prefecture) together with his wife and partner Ume.
	www.gogoglo.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/k/ko/kokichi_mikimoto.html (206 words)

	Mie Cities and Towns – Web Listings
		The city was formed on October 1, 2004 by the merger of all five towns from the former Shima...
		Mie: largest cities and towns and statistics of their population.
		Mie, 24, ???, Tsu, 5761, 1747311, 1841358, 1857339, 1867166.
	www.business.com /directory/government_and_trade/by_country/japan/regional_and_municipal_government/prefectures/mie/cities_and_towns/weblistings.asp (523 words)

	Shima, Mie (town) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Shima (志摩町; -cho) was a town located in the former Shima District, Mie, Japan.
		On October 1, 2004 the town merged with the other four towns from the district forming the city of Shima, Mie.
		As of 2003, the town had an estimated population of 14,075 and a density of 827.45 persons per km².
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Shima,_Mie_(town) (122 words)

	JNTO Website \| Find a Location \| Mie \| Shima
		The Shima-hanto Peninsula is situated at the eastern edge of the Kii-hanto Peninsula.
		It has a complex saw-toothed coastline with a number of bays and inlets, including the Matoya Bay, famous for cultured oysters and the Ago Bay, an Aegean Sea of Japan.
		There is a theme park called Shima Spain Mura Village, which reproduces the famous places and townscape of Spain.
	www.jnto.go.jp /eng/location/regional/mie/shima.html (325 words)

	The Japan Forum
		This theme park forms the core of the Shima Spain Village resort facility developed by the Kintetsu Corporation railway company with the cooperation of the Mie prefectural and Shima city governments.
		The village was opened in 1994 at a time when society was making a shift from the overheated "economy first" era to a time stressing leisure and relaxation after the bursting of the bubble.
		In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries it was a place people longed to visit at least once in their lifetime, and pilgrimages to the shrine were organized throughout the country.
	www.tjf.or.jp /eng/content/japaneseculture/31themepark.htm (2026 words)

	Encyclopedia of Japanese Minerals, by Alfredo Petrov
		Kagoshima: Recrystallized chromite grains as inclusions in maskelynite (qv) in the veined L6 chondrites of the Kyushu meteorite shower.
		Mie: A very ferrian variety ("ferritchromite") - (Fe'' 0.67 Mg 0.34)(Cr 0.73 Fe''' 0.71 Al 0.51)O4 - forms the cores of crystals with rims of chromian magnetite (qv) in serpentinized peridotite in the Asama-gatake layered intrusion.
		Mie: Cinnabar veins at the Nyu mine were discovered in 658 A.D., and mercury produced here was used in the gold-plating process for the Great Buddha of Nara.
	www.petrovrareminerals.com /articles02c.html (10942 words)

	Travel Places
		Located in the centre of Japan, Mie has prospered as a corridor between eastern and western Japan since ancient times.
		Kyuka Park, where the ruin of Kuwana Castle are situated, is now a popular spot to view cherry blossoms and azaleas, but the surrounding district bears only faint traces of its former history.
		The largest temple in Mie Prefecture, this is the head temple of the Shinshu Takada sect.
	www.travelplaces.co.uk /renault/mr-destination-suzuka6.htm (1664 words)

	Ise Shrine Summary
		Located in Mie Prefecture, the Grand Shrine of Ise (Ise Daijingu) is the most important shrine in Japan.
		Ise Shrine (Ise-jingū 伊勢神宮) is a Shinto shrine to the goddess Amaterasu ōmikami, located in the city of Ise in Mie prefecture, Japan.
		The two are located some six kilometers apart, joined by a pilgrimage road that passes through the old entertainment district of Furuichi.
	www.bookrags.com /Ise_Shrine (619 words)

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		Bukeyashiki aka âSamurai District'', the Bukeyashiki is an area in Kanazawa with old samurai houses from the Tokugawa Period.
		The term of office of members of the House of Councillors shall be six years, and election for half the members shall take place every three years.
		Electoral districts, method of voting and other matters pertaining to the method of election of members of both Houses shall be fixed by law.
	www.openhistory.org /jhdp/download/encyclopedia/0.3.3/ejh.txt (16714 words)

	Edutraveller :: Places :: The Kinki Region
		It comprises the prefectures of Shiga, Mie, Nara, Kyoto, Wakayama, Osaka, Kobe and Hyogo, and is the imperial center of Japan until the end of the Shogunates with the Meiji Restoration in 1869 when the imperial residence was moved to Tokyo.
		The Arima hot springs in the Kobe-Hanshin district are one of the oldest in Japan, and they and the Kinosaki and Yumura hot springs (Tajima District) are popular.
		Higashi-Harima District is located exactly at the center of the Japanese archipelago with plenty of Jomon-era burial mounds.
	www.edutraveller.com /jp/ja/places/kinki.html (2095 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for shrine
		Guadalupe Hidalgo, shrine, central Mexico, in the Federal District.
		The basilica of Guadalupe containing the shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe (feast: Dec. 12) is the focal point of the most famous pilgrimage in the Western Hemisphere.
		104,164), Mie prefecture, S Honshu, Japan, on Ise Bay.
	www.encyclopedia.com /searchpool.asp?target=shrine (690 words)

	Ruth Linhart - Modern Times for Ama Divers
		By the way, the ama dress of the Shima-region in Central Japan, shows the history of growing prudishness: before Showa ama only wore a koshimaki (loincloth) and a tenugui (towel) around their hair; from that time onwards they added a blouse, then trousers and for about ten years proper diving-dresses they called 'wetsuits'.
		In the real-life situation of Katada, a diving and fishing village in Shima, Mie-prefecture, where I was in 1978 and again in 1983 when I spent a longer time in an ama household, I encountered ama as hardworking middle-aged women.
		Their working places are the reefs under the blue surface of the sea to which the object of their work, the awabi (abalone), cling.
	www.ruthlinhart.com /japan_22.htm (2682 words)

	Iga Ueno Travel Guide
		Iga is the name of the former province, which covered part of today's Mie Prefecture.
		Ueno is commonly referred to as Iga Ueno in order to avoid confusion with an identically named city district in Tokyo.
		The Iga school of ninjutsu (art of stealth), based in Ueno City, used to be one of Japan's two leading ninja schools during the feudal era (the Koga school in Shiga Prefecture was the other).
	www.japan-guide.com /e/e4350.html (171 words)

	asahi.com：Pilot again not guilty of midair negligence - ENGLISH (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		On June 8, 1997, JAL Flight 706 was caught in turbulence over Shima Peninsula in Mie Prefecture en route from Hong Kong to Nagoya.
		In July 2004, the Nagoya District Court acquitted Takamoto of negligence although it ruled his maneuvers had led to the accident.
		Citing as evidence a report by the former transport ministry's Aircraft Accidents Investigation Commission, the district court said Takamoto had deactivated the autopilot by suddenly pulling on the control stick to raise the nose as the aircraft gathered speed while descending.
	www.asahi.com /english/Herald-asahi/TKY200701100136.html (533 words)

	Shima - Hotel, holiday, vacation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Shima City was born out of the merger of four districts in 2005.
		Shima is most famous for pearl cultivation and is a popular playground for watersports and holidaymakers.(www.city.shima.mie.jp/kankou/e-guide/index.html)
		Possibly the main attracion in Shima is Shima Spain Village "Parque Espana"(www.parque-net.com/index.html)
	35west.com /travel-Shima (106 words)

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		At Ise-Shima in the Mie Prefecture, the Mikimoto Pearl Museum teaches the generations about the development of cultured pearls, and as a tourist attraction, about the Ama-San, but this is not the real Ama diving.
		I went to the Ama-San festival in Shirahama's Nojimazaki district on the tip of the Boso-Hanto Peninsula, about 100 kilometers (60 miles) southeast of Tokyo.
		After all-day festivities and prayers in a colorful, carnival atmosphere, they walked solemnly past applauding crowds into the chilly night sea and swam holding torches.
	www.uhms.org /PRESSURE/JASO_05/jaso-PG6.htm (1108 words)

	Brujula.Net - Your Latin Stating Point (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		As it grew steadily into the economic bubble of the late 1980s, Tokyo became one of the most dynamic cities on Earth, with a tremendous range of social and economic activities, myriad restaurants and
		The construction boom of the bubble years was one of the greatest in world history (as judged by the level of building expenditures in relation to the size of the economy), leading Tokyo to have an enormously more modern capital stock of buildings than similar metropolises such as London and
		On March 20, 1995, Tokyo became the focus of international media attention in the wake of the Aum Shinrikyo cult terrorist organisation attack with Sarin
	www.brujula.net /english/wiki/Tokyo.html (1632 words)

	Mikimoto giant Christmas tree in front of its Ginza store - Fareastgizmos.com
		However, the elegant beauty of Kokichi's pearls was eventually recognized by women throughout the world, and his wish was fulfilled, as the name "Mikimoto" became well-known around the globe.Mikimoto was born as the first son of a shop owner in Toba, Mie prefecture.
		Seeing the pearl divers of Ise unloading their treasures at the shore in his childhood started the fascination with pearls.
		In 1888 Mikimoto obtained a loan to start his first pearl farm at the Shinmei inlet in Shima province together with his wife and partner Ume.
	www.fareastgizmos.com /other_stuff/mikimoto_giant_christmas_tree_in_front_of_its_ginza_store.php (384 words)

	For Curious Japanese, Nibbles of Foreign Cultures - New York Times
		But this is Japan, not the Netherlands, and Huis Ten Bosch in Nagasaki is just one of several Japanese theme parks, from Shima City to Nagoya, offering an idealized distillation of a foreign culture.
		Meanwhile, visitors to Parque España in Shima City are greeted by a cast-iron statue of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, a perfect copy of the statue in Madrid’s Plaza de España.
		And more recent additions to the genre, such as Italian Village or Venus Fort, the Italian-themed shopping mall in the trendy Odaiba district of Tokyo, offer a variation on the theme by placing their primary emphasis on that most central of tourist activities: shopping.
	travel2.nytimes.com /2006/07/30/travel/30journeys.html (1471 words)

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