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	Uwajima, Ehime - Definition, explanation
		After Ehime Prefecture was established, the capital was moved to Matsuyama, which is in the northernmost area of Ehime.
		In 1917, Maruho village was merged with Uwajima, and Yahata Village was annexed in 1921 - it thus became a unified city.
		Uwajima is also home to an unusual fertility shrine called Taga-jinja, which features a large, realistic phallus carved from a log approximately 5 feet in length.
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/u/uw/uwajima__ehime.php (343 words)

	Uwajima, Ehime (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Uwajima (宇和島市; -shi) is a city located in Ehime, Japan.
		As of 2003, the city has an estimated population of 60,103 and the density of 419.42 persons per km².
		Uwajima City Gives city symbols, history, sightseeing, events, and access.
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Uwajima,_Ehime.html (109 words)

	Uwajima travel guide - Wikitravel
		Uwajima (宇和島) [1] is a small town on the western coast of Shikoku, Japan.
		Uwajima is the western terminus of the JR Yosan line (予讃線), and there are regular connections north to Matsuyama.
		Uwajima is fairly spread out, but the few sights of interest are nearby and can be reached on foot from the center of town.
	wikitravel.org /en/Uwajima (821 words)

	Information of Ehime
		Its capital, Matsuyama, is the largest city on Shikoku, with a population of over 500,000 and an abundance of historical and cultural resources such as the famous Matsuyama Castle and Dogo Hot Spring Spa, the oldest bathing area in Japan.
		Ehime, which sounds feminine to Japanese ears and literally means "beautiful maiden", is blessed by a mild climate with an average low of 5.3degrees C (42degrees F)in January and an average high of 27degrees C(81degrees F)in August.
		Iyo, the old name for Ehime, is said to have first appeared as the name for the island of Shikoku in the "Kojiki" (Record of Ancient Matters) and the "Nihon Shoki" (Chronicles of Japan), both written in the early eighth century.
	www.pref.ehime.jp /kokusai/e-seika1.htm (631 words)

	JNTO Website \| Find a Location \| Ehime \| Uwajima
		Uwajima is situated deep inside the Uwajima Bay with saw-toothed coast facing the Bungo Channel at the southwestern Ehime.
		It forms the central city of Ehime located in the southern district embraced by mountains over 1,000 meters high and was flourishing as a castle town for the Date family since the early 17th century.
		The largest festival in Uwajima, Warei Grand Festival, is celebrated in every summer at the Warei-jinja Shrine that is worshiped as the protector deity for sea-farers and familiarly called Warei-sama by the local people, and a ritual to pray for rich haul and good harvest is conducted in front of the shrine.
	www.jnto.go.jp /eng/location/regional/ehime/uwajima.html (319 words)

	Uwajima Fishery High School . USS Greeneville (SSN-772) . Uwajima, Ehime . Ehime Prefecture . Japan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Uwajima Fishery High School 宇和島水産高等学校 is in Uwajima, Ehime Uwajima, Ehime Prefecture, Japan.
		The school operated the vessel Ehime maru, which the USS Greeneville SSN-772 USS Greenville, a U.S. Navy submarine, struck and sank on February 9, 2001.
		Ehime Prefecture 愛媛県 Ehime-ken is a Prefectures of Japan prefecture in northwestern Shikoku, Japan.
	www.uk.fraquisanto.net /Uwajima_Fishery_High_School (398 words)

	Uwajima to resume fisheries training off Hawai'i - The Honolulu Advertiser - Hawaii's Newspaper
		After a U.S. nuclear submarine collided Feb. 9 with the Ehime Maru in waters off Pearl Harbor and left nine boys and men from Uwajima lost at sea, Toshihiko Nakao, the Uwajima school's administrative director, worried that the accident might lead to a further decline in young people seeking careers on fishing boats.
		Uwajima Fisheries High School already is among the smallest of Japan's nearly 50 fisheries high schools, enrolling about 200 of the country's 12,000 fisheries students.
		In Uwajima, the last train stop on the southwest side of an island best known as the center of Shingon Buddhism, the hometown fisheries school competes against three other schools in the region to prepare teenagers for a fishing trade that employs about 400,000 people across Japan.
	the.honoluluadvertiser.com /article/2001/Jun/24/ln/ln06a.html (730 words)

	Uwajima Junior Chamber,Inc (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Uwajima is located in the southwest of Ehime prefecture and surrounded by the beautiful Uwa-Sea and steep mountains.
		The main point is that the redevelopment area project around JR Uwajima station aims at accumulating market and business area and forming a space which has urban prosperity.
		Uwajima Castle is located in the center of Uwajima city and the symbol of our city.
	www.rpm.or.jp /ujc/uwaji-e.htm (285 words)

	A whole sentence of a representation from Prefectural Government and Assembly to Mr.Blair
		"Ehime Maru" of the Ehime Prefecture Uwajima Marine and
		This is to bring to your attention my sincere request on behalf of the people of Ehime, in light of their feelings and concerns following the recent accident.
		That the feelings of the people of Ehime be considered, and therefore all available measures be taken to find the 9 missing persons, including raising the sunken "Ehime Maru" in the near future.
	www.pref.ehime.jp /honbu/ehime3-e.htm (283 words)

	CNN.com - U.S. sub, Japanese trawler collide; nine missing - February 10, 2001
		In Japan, officials of Uwajima, Ehime Prefecture (state) said they were scrambling to coordinate a response to the accident, which left nine students of a vocational fishing high-school missing.
		Mori said the Ehime Prefectural government had set up a crisis center to assist families and cull information on the accident in which a Navy submarine sank the Ehime Maru, a fisheries training vessel.
		Sasaki said that when she heard of the accident she immediately called a friend whose son attends the high school, and was relieved to find that he was not on the school's training mission in Hawaii.
	archives.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/asiapcf/east/02/09/japan.substrike.02 (874 words)

	Honolulu Star-Bulletin Hawaii News
		The city of Uwajima this weekend posted a message from the city's mayor to the people of Hawaii on the city's Web site, urging boaters to help in the search for the nine missing high-school students, teachers and crew members of the Ehime Maru.
		Uwajima is a small, close-knit fishing community and such beliefs are still strongly held.
		After listening to the stories of the survivors, rescued thanks to the diligent work by the U.S. Coast Guard and Navy, even though two people, one high school student and one crew member, were seen on the deck as the accident happened, they have yet to be found.
	starbulletin.com /2001/02/19/news/story4.html (478 words)

	JNTO Website \| Japan In-Depth \| History & Culture \| Traditional Annual Events \| Warei Taisai Festival
		Three portable shrines transported on boats from the Port of Uwajima to the mouth of the Sukagawa River, are carried on the shoulders of energetic youths wading through the river waters amid the darkness, relying merely on the illumination of the pine torch fires.
		The stone-made torii (a gate erected at the entrance of a shrine) standing at the gateway of Warei-jinja Shrine, which serves as the main venue of these festive events, is well worth seeing, for it is the largest stone torii gate in Japan.
		JR Uwajima Station is 1 hour and 20 minutes from JR Matsuyama Station on the Yosan Line (Limited Express Service).
	www.jnto.go.jp /eng/indepth/history/traditionalevents/a35_fes_warei.html (364 words)

	Read Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Gittins, on behalf of Waddle, thanked the Japanese people, Ehime Gov. Moriyuki Kato, and the high school's principal, Hisao Onishi, for allowing him to visit Ehime Prefecture, southwestern Japan, and the school to offer his apologies to the families of the nine lost at sea and the survivors.
		Scott Waddle, former skipper of the U.S. Navy submarine Greeneville, lays a wreath at a memorial in Uwajima, Ehime Prefecture, Japan on Sunday.
		Waddle, who arrived in Japan on Saturday, met with four survivors and their families in Uwajima, Ehime Prefecture, on Sunday after offering flowers at a memorial in the city for the nine who died in the accident.
	www.unobserver.com /printen.php?id=596 (463 words)

	asahi.com：Top surgeon's work under police microscope - ENGLISH (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		UWAJIMA, Ehime Prefecture--As part of their investigation into the suspected sale of a kidney for transplant, prefectural police here plan to pore over records of hundreds of such procedures performed by one of the nation's foremost surgeons in the field, officials said Tuesday.
		Suzuo Yamashita, 59, a fisheries company executive who underwent the operation at the Uwajima hospital in September 2005, was arrested Sunday in connection with violations of the Organ Transplant Law.
		The Uwajima Tokushukai Hospital opened in April 2004 and conducted 20 kidney transplants before the year was out, ranking it eighth in Japan in that year--almost on a par with hospitals in Tokyo and Nagoya.
	www.asahi.com /english/Herald-asahi/TKY200610040127.html (406 words)

	Ehime-Hawai'i baseball games set tone for evolving relations - The Honolulu Advertiser - Hawaii's Newspaper
		Residents of both Ehime and Hawai'i, however, were eager to do something more to create a living monument in the form of a new and special relationship between the prefecture and the state.
		Second, although Ehime may not have been known to many Hawai'i residents before the tragedy, it has about 4 million residents and an economy more than double the size of Hawai'i's, and it is certainly capable of supporting several cooperative activities.
		Third, Ehime prefecture and Hawai'i have similar characteristics that could be the basis for joint activities beyond sports.
	the.honoluluadvertiser.com /article/2002/Dec/08/op/op06a.html (1079 words)

	asahi.com：Ehime surgeon tied to 2 more shady kidney transplants - ENGLISH (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		UWAJIMA, Ehime Prefecture--A surgeon embroiled in a scandal over kidney transplants here was involved in two additional operations with potentially diseased organs in other prefectures, officials said.
		In both cases, the donors and recipients had no family ties, and in one of those operations, the "donor" had not given her written consent, hospital officials said.
		Uwajima Tokushukai Hospital said earlier that it had conducted 11 transplants using potentially diseased kidneys from 2004, when the hospital opened, through September this year.
	www.asahi.com /english/Herald-asahi/TKY200611080153.html (623 words)

	Scenes ContestFUwajima City Shitaba, Ehime Prefecture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Uwajima City, which has a 40 billion yen share of the cultivation production industry, is expected to take a leadership role in Ehime Prefecture's fishing industries with its position in the "Uwa Sea New Marinovation Plan" ("marinovation" is a combination of the words "marine" and "renovation").
		The Shitaba region of Uwajima City is located in the southern portion of Miura Peninsula which stretches out near the center of Uwa Sea.
		A beautiful scene is formed by the setting sun shining on the small islands of Kuroshima and Goitsumijima with the rafts for pearl and fish cultivation floating in orderly formations off shore.
	www.maff.go.jp /soshiki/koukai/muratai/21j/english/no4/mura17.html (188 words)

	KRT Wire \| 02/17/2007 \| Japanese kidney donors had hepatitis, syphilis
		According to sources, blood from a patient whose kidneys were removed due to nephrosis in December 2000 at Uwajima Municipal Hospital and died a few months later, tested positive for the hepatitis B virus.
		When the virus spreads throughout a patient's body, the disease becomes chronic and the patient is likely to suffer liver cancer or liver cirrhosis.
		In cases where candidates test positive for viruses, including hepatitis B virus and HIV, their organs are not to be transplanted to other patients.
	www.charlotte.com /mld/charlotte/news/world/16723307.htm (414 words)

	Uw Uwa, Ehime Uwajima Uwajima, Ehime Uwchlan Township, Pennsylvania Uwe UweJohnson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
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	www.geodatabase.de /?Uw (76 words)

	Ehime Maru Memorial Association
		The Ehime Maru Memorial Association was incorporated on November 11, 2001 as a nonprofit organization to coordinate the activities of placing an Ehime Maru Memorial at a site in Hawaii.
		The Governor of Ehime Prefecture approached Governor Benjamin Cayetano with a request to place a memorial in Hawaii to serve as a reminder of the tragic Ehime Maru accident that occurred on February 9, 2001.
		They have also led the way in reaching out to the students of Uwajima Fisheries High School in helping to establish relationships that look to the future.
	www.jashawaii.org /emma.asp (268 words)

	Uwajimaya at AllExperts
		Uwajimaya was founded in 1928 by Fujimatsu Moriguchi of Yawatahama, Japan, in Tacoma, Washington, where he sold goods from his truck.
		It was named after the town of Uwajima (Ehime Prefecture), where he first entered the business.
		As part of the internment of Japanese Americans following the entry of the United States into World War II, Moriguchi and his family were sent to the Tule Lake Internment Camp in 1942.
	en.allexperts.com /e/u/uw/uwajimaya.htm (434 words)

	Japan Omnibus - Sightseeing - Shikoku
		The region was not very developed until the construction of several bridges to connect Shikoku with the mainland of Honshu.
		The western part of Shikoku is dominated by the city of Matsuyama in the north of Ehime Prefecture.
		The Edo Period (1600~1868) castle town of Uwajima on the west coast is known for its togyu (bull-fighting), which pits two bulls against each other, and the Warei Shrine festival held in July.
	www.japan-zone.com /omnibus/shikoku.shtml (757 words)

	Uwajima
		YH is located 2km walk from JR Uwajima staion, and also adjacent to Atago park which is on at 80m's hill, so YH can command a city view and is surrounded by rich nature.
		Please use YH as a base for city rambling to enjoy nice local foods and for exploring to Cape Ashizuri or Shimanto river.
		From JR Uwajima station, walk for 30 minutes.
	www.jyh.or.jp /english/shikoku/uwajima/index.html (76 words)

	Thursday, February 22, 2001 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Family members of the nine high school students, teachers, and crew members missing from the Ehime Maru and others connected with them met with Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori at the Prime Minister's Official Residence and presented him with a list of requests.
		The Ehime Maru, a training vessel of Uwajima Fisheries High School in Uwajima, Ehime Prefecture, was accidentally rammed and sunk by the U.S. Navy nuclear submarine USS Greeneville off the island of Oahu, Hawaii, on February 10 (February 9 in Hawaii).
		The Prime Minister expressed his sympathy for their anguish and pledged the government's utmost efforts to see that their wishes were realized.
	www.kantei.go.jp /foreign/moritoku_e/01february_dialy/february01/february22b.html (114 words)

	Uwajima%2C Ehime
		The city of Matsuyama and Ehime Prefecture, home to such poets as Shiki and Santoka, and visted by Saigyo and many others, boasts a large number of such "haiku stones", here presented with full texts in both Japanese and somewhat kinky English translations, along with photographs and background information, by Ehime University.
		Regional bank headquartered in the city of Matsuyama, the capital of Ehime Prefecture.
		Fundamentals with examples of capillary and two dimensional electrophoresis in protein-protein interaction, including antibody-antigen in immunology and proteomics applications, at the Faculty of Science, Ehime University, Japan.
	www.omniknow.com /common/wiki.php?in=en&term=Uwajima%2C_Ehime (805 words)

	Ehime travel guide - Wikitravel
		Asia : East Asia : Japan : Shikoku : Ehime
		Ehime prefecture (愛媛県 Ehime-ken) is on the Japanese island of Shikoku.
		Uwajima - home to bull sumo and sex shrines
	wikitravel.org /en/Ehime (124 words)

	UWAJIMA, EHIME (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Uwajima ist eine Stadt, die in Ehime, Japan gelegen ist.
		Die Stadt bekannt für seine Stier sumo Turniere, eins von Japans wenigen restlichen ursprünglichen Schlössern und ein ungewöhnliches Ergiebigkeit shrine.
		It is licensed under the GNU free documentation license.
	www.faktedon.com /wiki/de/uw/Uwajima%2C%20Ehime.htm (75 words)

	2007 Voyage to Japan
		Itinerary for Japan Voyage 2007: Okinawa, Kumamoto, Nagasaki, Yamaguchi (Oshima, which hosts a Museum of Japanese Emigration to Hawai'i), Hiroshima, Uwajima, and Yokohama.
		The stops are in prefectures from where immigrant workers came to Hawai’i in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century; or at places which have special relationships to Hawai'i, such as Uwajima in Ehime and Yokohama, where Kalakaua was welcomed in 1881.
		The progress of the voyage can be followed via the 2007 Voyages to Micronesia and Japan BLOG.
	pvs.kcc.hawaii.edu /2007voyage/2007japan.html (357 words)

	Ehime Society of Architect & Building Engineer Uwajima branch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		We divide all elementary schools is 4 area(Jyohoku,Jyonan,Jyotou,Uwaumi) in Uwajima City.
		The exhibition join for schoolchildren one area year and year.
		This year,The exhibition join to Jyonan area in Uwajima City.
	www.netwave.or.jp /~shikai/shikai/shmain-e.htm (154 words)

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