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  Nagano Prefecture - Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Nagano was formerly known as the province of Shinano, and was divided among many local daimyo during the Sengoku period.
Nagano was host to the 1998 Winter Olympics, which gained the prefecture international recognition as well as gaining the prefecture a Shinkansen line to Tokyo.
Nagano is also the prefecture which is bordered by the highest number of other prefectures in Japan and it contains the location which is the furthest point from the ocean anywhere in Japan.
encyclopedia.maksiu.info /wiki/Nagano_Prefecture   (228 words)

  
 Hara, Nagano - TheBestLinks.com - Japan, Population, 2003, Square kilometer, ...
Hara, Nagano - TheBestLinks.com - Japan, Population, 2003, Square kilometer,...
Hara, Nagano, Japan, Population, 2003, Square kilometer, Population density...
Hara (原村;; -mura) is a village located in Suwa District, Nagano, Japan.
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 Shimosuwa, Nagano - TheBestLinks.com - Japan, Population, 2003, Square kilometer, ...
Shimosuwa, Nagano, Japan, Population, 2003, Square kilometer, Population...
Shimosuwa (下諏訪町;; -machi) is a town located in Suwa District, Nagano, Japan.
As of 2003, the town has an estimated population of 23,283 and a density of 348.03 persons per kmandsup2.
www.thebestlinks.com /Shimosuwa__2C___Nagano.html   (95 words)

  
 JAPAN - LoveToKnow Article on JAPAN
Lake Suwa, in Shinano, which is emptied by the Tenriu-gawa, has a height of 2624 ft. In the vicinity of many of these mountain lakes thermal springs, with remarkable curative properties, are to be found.
Winter in these districts does not last more than two months, from the end of December to the beginning of March; for although the latter month is not free from frost and even snow, the balminess of spring makes itself plainly perceptible.
In the district on the east of the main island the snowfall is insignificant, seldom attaining a depth of more than four or five inches and generally melting in a few days, while bright, sunny skies are usual.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /J/JA/JAPAN.htm   (19610 words)

  
 Chapter 3   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Nagano basin consists mainly of alluvial fans and the floodplain of the river Chikumagawa.
Nagano, the major city in the basin, developed as a market and one of the post-station towns on the old historic road.
Suwa is a graben basin, spread around the Suwa lake in Nagano prefecture.
www.uwplatt.edu /~stradfot/asia393/KaranJapan3a.html   (19866 words)

  
 Suwa, Nagano - Unipedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Suwa was also an old province located in Tosando of Japan for a brief period of time, which today composes the southern part of Nagano Prefecture.
Suwa is a beer brewed by the Christian population of Eritrea, and can also be found in parts of Ethiopia.
Suwa (諏訪市; -shi) is a city located in Nagano, Japan.
www.unipedia.info /Suwa.html   (257 words)

  
 company   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
The Suwa district of Nagano Prefecture is often referred to as the "Switzerland in the Orient." Quality watches, cameras, and other precision instruments are produced here.
He said that the present two subcontractor laws are of little help in checking the reckless cost-cutting by parent companies, and he wanted to launch a union that would give him power in negotiating with the contractor.
The Suwa district, located around Lake Suwa, has an industrial complex in which many small-and medium-sized companies are structured at the bottom of a pyramid with a large corporations such as Seikosha (watch), Olympus (camera), and Sankyo Seiki (music box) on top.
www.japan-press.co.jp /2298/company.html   (396 words)

  
 wikien.info: Main_Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Harda District Area 2644 sq km, population 474,174 (2001 census), a 25% increase from 1991.
Harda district is bounded by the districts of Sehore to the n..
Hardmead is a village in the Unitary District of Milton Keynes, England.
istanbulhotelsguide.info /browse.php?title=H/HA/HAR   (10982 words)

  
 Shimoina District, Nagano - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Shimoina (下伊那郡; -gun) is a district located in Nagano, Japan.
As of 2003, the district has an estimated population of 70,442 and a density of 43.92 persons per km².
This page was last modified 03:25, 9 October 2005.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Shimoina_District,_Nagano   (63 words)

  
 Silk Circa 1840: Chin/Mommaneni Paper
During the Tokugawa period, the Fukushima Prefecture's Shindatsu district was the most important silk producing region in Japan during the period in question.
The Shindatsu district is a collection of several villages (refer to maps), most of which specialized in the production of silk.
The headwaters of the river are in the Nasukazan district of the Ibaragi prefecture; it enters Fukushima prefecture at the southwest and flows north before it empties into the Pacific Ocean.
www.smith.edu /hsc/silk/papers/chin.html   (3374 words)

  
 Suwa District, Nagano -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Suwa District, Nagano -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
Suwa (諏訪郡; -gun) is a (A region marked off for administrative or other purposes) district located in (A city in central Honshu northwest of Tokyo; site of a Buddhist shrine) Nagano, (A constitutional monarchy occupying the Japanese Archipelago; a world leader in electronics and automobile manufacture and ship building) Japan.
As of 2003, the district has an estimated ((statistics) the entire aggregation of items from which samples can be drawn) population of 46,162 and a (The amount per unit size) density of 181.18 persons per (additional info and facts about km²;) km²;.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/su/suwa_district,_nagano.htm   (101 words)

  
 Middle East Open Encyclopedia: Nagano   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
As of 2003, the city has an estimated population of 361,221 with a density of 893.34 persons per km².
Nagano was the host city to the 1998 Winter Olympics, the 1998 Winter Paralympics and the 2005 Special Olympics World Winter Games and the first city to host all three of these events.
The origin of Nagano was a small town around it.
www.baghdadmuseum.org /ref/index.php?title=Nagano   (272 words)

  
 Suwa District, Nagano - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Suwa (諏訪郡; -gun) is a district located in Nagano, Japan.
As of 2003, the district has an estimated population of 46,162 and a density of 181.18 persons per km².
This page was last modified 03:26, 9 October 2005.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Suwa_District,_Nagano   (63 words)

  
 FRUGAL TRAVELER; Choosing A Slow Pace In Japan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Exhausted, we arrived at the Motonago inn in the Gion district.
At night, the historic district of Gion empties of tourists and once again becomes an ancient neighborhood.
On Higashi-mon, the gaudy main street in the red-light district, we stumbled upon a basement Italian restaurant, Osteria ca' d'Oro, where we gorged on prosciutto, vegetables, seafood linguine, fresh bread and a carafe of wine for under $80.
www.geocities.com /TheTropics/Cove/5750/nytimes.html   (2305 words)

  
 Nagano Prefecture @ FootballLiving.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Families are lining up on weekends to feed a long-necked furry friend at Chausuyama Zoo in Nagano city.
And when a mom holds her tot up to feed the giraffe, dad dutifully snaps away with his cellphone camera.
Forty of the 45 public forestry corporations across the nation have accumulated debts totaling 1.2 trillion yen, according to financial reports for fiscal 2004.
www.footballliving.com /moreinfo/Nagano_Prefecture   (509 words)

  
 Interpersonal relationship in Nagano   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
I understand that there is numbers of people that is interested for further data referring to the relationship in Nagano.
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Socio-Economic History 64-6 - fostered a before of trust in the interpersonal relationship between putting-out in the Suwa district, Nagano prefecture, feeling the World War II.
www.relationship-guide.com /location/Interpersonal-relationship-in-Nagano.php   (688 words)

  
 eZ Systems -
Masuda-san had personally shown Dr. Rowley many of the locations around Suwa and it was plainly of great concern to her that she should be believed.
In response to a question as to whether Dr. Rowley is acting as an expert consultant to Columbia Pictures for the making of the film of the novel, the answer was that Liza Dalby is the expert witness as her own geisha experience had been in the Pontocho district.
One questioner said that he felt that the most remarkable episode of the whole book was the suicide of Masuda-san's younger brother and did Dr. Rowley feel that this was partly why she had chosen to write the book, so that he would not be forgotten?
www.asjapan.org /Lectures/2004/Lecture/lecture-2004-12.htm   (1868 words)

  
 The Red Panda Restaurant Group   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Naniwa is a famous merchant district in Osaka city.
Big trees are cut from the mountains to build as the pillars around four corners of Suwa Shrine.
There are three portable shrines started parade from Sensou Shrine and then 80 portable shrines follow to parade 44 districts of Asakusa area.
www.theredpanda.com /japanese-featival.htm   (446 words)

  
 Obata-Ôi
He was at Nagano Castle when his brother was killed at the Honnoji in Kyoto by Akechi Mitsuhide.
Nobutomo was the head of the Iwakura Oda family and ruled the four southern districts of Owari Province.
In 1541 he allied with the Suwa and advanced into Kai Province, where he was defeated by Takeda Shingen at Nirasaki.
www.samurai-archives.com /dictionary/o1.html   (6771 words)

  
 Japan Times: The wonder that is winter   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Arctic adventures are a regular feature of my life in winter in Hokkaido -- occasional winter camps, regular cross-country skiing trips -- tempered, of course, with dips in hot springs from which it's also often possible to watch wildlife.
A mere two weeks earlier I had seen an astonishing flock of more than a 1,000 of them on Lake Suwa beside the highway from Nagano to Tokyo, and before that a smaller gathering among the ice at Toufutsu-ko in northeast Hokkaido.
At "my" Midlands reservoir I witnessed a swimming "red-head," a female goosander extend her neck and beak until they lay along the water's surface, her body low and long.
search.japantimes.co.jp /print/features/enviro2004/fe20040318mb.htm   (1108 words)

  
 San Francisco Taiko Dojo:  Seiichi Tanaka   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Seiichi Tanaka, the son of a professional baseball player, was born in Tokyo, Japan in 1943.
He spent his youth in Nagano prefecture and, like his father, grew into a skilled athlete.
He spent his youth in Nagano prefecture and, like his father, grew into a skilled athlete.  He attended the Chiba University of Commerce on a baseball scholarship, graduating in 1964.  Shortly thereafter, he visited the United States for the first time.
www.taikodojo.org /about_tanaka.html   (812 words)

  
 Fujimi, Nagano - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Fujimi, Nagano   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Fujimi, Nagano - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Fujimi, Nagano.
Fujimi (富士見町;; -machi) is a town located in Suwa District, Nagano, Japan.
As of 2003, the town has an estimated population of 15,525 and a density of 107.32 persons per km²;.
www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/Fujimi-Nagano.html   (107 words)

  
 Japan Doctors, Patients Sue Organization - May 26, 2004 - Japan
A group of Japanese doctors and patients sued a national medical society on Wednesday for blocking a prenatal test that screens for genetic diseases, and demanded $691,000 in compensation.
The lawsuit, filed at the Tokyo District Court against the Japan Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology, is the first to ask the courts to consider whether a fertility treatment is constitutional, said Dr. Yahiro Netsu, who runs the Suwa Maternity Clinic in central Nagano Prefecture (state), northwest of Tokyo.
He is one of two doctors and nine patients named as plaintiffs in the case.
www.intendedparents.com /News/Japan_Doctors_Patients_Sue_Organization.html   (497 words)

  
 Send Flowers To Japan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Hakata Gion Yamagasa Festival in Fukuoka reaches its climax on the 15th with a fleet of giant floats topped by elaborate decorations that are paraded through the streets.
Kunchi Festival of Suwa Shrine in Nagasaki features a dragon dance of Chinese origin and floats with umbrella-shaped decorations.
Here a sacred fire is kindled in the shrine's precincts, which is believed to bring happiness to those cooking their first meal with the embers of the fire, and visitors are encouraged to take some of the embers of the sacred fire, made available, to their homes.
www.japanfloristshop.com /festivals.asp   (2099 words)

  
 Shimoina District, Nagano -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Shimoina District, Nagano -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
Shimoina (下伊那郡;; -gun) is a (A region marked off for administrative or other purposes) district located in (A city in central Honshu northwest of Tokyo; site of a Buddhist shrine) Nagano, (A constitutional monarchy occupying the Japanese Archipelago; a world leader in electronics and automobile manufacture and ship building) Japan.
As of 2003, the district has an estimated ((statistics) the entire aggregation of items from which samples can be drawn) population of 70,442 and a (The amount per unit size) density of 43.92 persons per (additional info and facts about km²;) km²;.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/sh/shimoina_district,_nagano.htm   (116 words)

  
 Nagano, Nagano - Unipedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Nagano (長野市) is the capital city of Nagano Prefecture, situated near the junction of the Chikuma River and the Sai River on the island of Honshu, Japan.
Nagano was the host city to the 1998 Winter Olympics.
Nagano Nagano Top 10 Bestselling Search: Nagano Nagano
www.unipedia.info /Nagano.html   (199 words)

  
 uch_bio
In his ninth-grade year, he placed third in the district wrestling championship and fourth in hurdles in the district track meet.
For three months in the midst of winter, Uchida sensei lived in Suwa City in Nagano-ken with his future in-laws.
To make his dream of building a dojo in Suwa come true, Tsuchihashi sensei quit smoking and put the money he normally spent on cigarettes into savings.
www.mushinkankendo.com /uch_bio.html   (3005 words)

  
 Raccoon dog (Nyctereutes procyonoides) Bibliography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Fujiwara, S. and Suwa, F. On the facial artery of the raccoon dog Nyctereutes procyonoides viverrinus Temminck.
Distribution, population density and economical importance of the raccoon dog (Nyctereutes procyonoides) in the Amur-Ussury District.
Age structure and dental anomalies of the raccoon dogs, Nyctereutes procyonoides viverrinus Temminck, in Chichibu district, Saitama Prefecture.
www.canids.org /SPPACCTS/Nprocyonoidesbiblio.htm   (12338 words)

  
 Snow Japan Insider : Member Journal entries from September 2004.
Dinner was eaten at a rest area along the toll highway and after a quick break and near mutiny at Lake Suwa we set off.
Dan's group of Risa and the Japanese fellow were certain that hiking the north side would be better.
We ended up in the Red Light district as that is were the fun is while eating falloafas watched a lady step on a cockroach and saw numerous hookers standing around on the corners.
snowjapan.com /e/insider/journal.php?month=September&year=2004   (2715 words)

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