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 Kumamoto Prefecture - Open Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-20)
Kumamoto Prefecture (熊本県; Kumamoto-ken) is located on Kyushu Island, Japan.
Historically the area was called Higo province and was renamed to Kumamoto prefecture during the Meiji Restoration as part of the abolition of the feudal system.
Kumamoto Prefecture is located in the center of Kyushu, the southernmost of the four major Japanese islands.
open-encyclopedia.com /Kumamoto_Prefecture   (116 words)

  
 Minamata, Kumamoto -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-20)
Minamata (水俣市;; -shi) is a (A large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts) city located in (additional info and facts about Kumamoto) Kumamoto, (A constitutional monarchy occupying the Japanese Archipelago; a world leader in electronics and automobile manufacture and ship building) Japan.
As of 2003, the city has an estimated ((statistics) the entire aggregation of items from which samples can be drawn) population of 30,080 and the (The amount per unit size) density of 184.69 persons per (additional info and facts about km²;) km²;.
A single mercury polluting corporation was at fault for killing hundreds and harming thousands of people in Minamata and nearby.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/m/mi/minamata,_kumamoto.htm   (125 words)

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