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  iwate_prefecture   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
On September 1, 2005 the towns of Ashiro and Nishine and the village of Matsuo from Iwate District merged, forming the city of Hachimantai.
On November 1, 2005 the town of Yuda and village of Sawauchi from Waga District merged forming the town of Nishiwaga.
On January 1, 2006 the towns of Ishidoriya and Ohasama (from Hienuki District) and the town of Towa (from Waga District) merged with the city of Hanamaki to become the new city of Hanamaki.
www.hondparts.com /wiki/?title=Iwate_Prefecture   (668 words)

  
 Iwate Prefecture - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Iwate Prefecture (岩手県; Iwate-ken) is located in the Tohoku region on Honshu island, Japan.
It was not until the end of the eighth century that the Nara authorities had penetrated deeply into Iwate, with Fort Shiwa, to the north of present day Morioka, constructed in 803.
Iwate faces the Pacific Ocean to the east, and borders Aomori Prefecture on the north, Akita Prefecture on the west, and Miyagi Prefecture on the south.
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Iwate   (661 words)

  
 Waga District, Iwate Information
As of 2003, the district has an estimated population of 17,829 and a density of 23.83 persons per km².
On November 1, 2005 the town of Yuda and village of Sawauchi merged forming the town of Nishiwaga.
On January 1, 2006, the town of Towa merged with the former Hienuki District and the former city of Hanamaki to create the new city of Hanamaki.
www.bookrags.com /wiki/Waga_District,_Iwate   (74 words)

  
 Iwate_prefecture info here at en.12-year.info   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Iwate visages the Pacific Ocean to the east, 'n borders Aomori Prefecture on the north, Akita Prefecture on the west, 'n Miyagi Prefecture on the south.
On January 1, 2006 the towns of Ishidoriya 'n Ohasama (from Hienuki District) 'n the township of Towa (from Waga District) merged with the oppidan of Hanamaki to wax the up-to-date oppidan of Hanamaki.
On March 6, 2006 the village of Yamagata from Kunohe District merged with the infirm oppidan of Kuji to contour the up-to-date oppidan of Kuji.
en.12-year.info /Iwate_Prefecture   (1044 words)

  
 Morioka, Iwate   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Beautiful Mount Iwate is to the northwest of the city.
Mitsuishi temple (literally, 'three rocks'), has three large rocks on the grounds with shackles around them to represent the story of 'Oni no tegata', which is a legend explaining the origin of the name of Iwate prefecture.
The Iwate Museum of Art in Morioka displays works by three notable local artists, Tetsugoro Yorozu, Shunsuke Matsumoto and Yasutake Funakoshi, as well as holding exhibitions on national and international themes.
www.infoforyou.org /input.php?title=Morioka,_Iwate   (553 words)

  
 Higashiiwai District, Iwate   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
January 1, 1955-The village of Maikawa merged with the villages of Ganmi, Hagisho, and Yasaka from Nishiiwai District, and city of Ichinoseki (1st) to form the new city of Ichinoseki (2nd).
The village of Namabo merged with the town of Maesawa, and the villages of Hakusan and Furushiro from Isawa District to form the town of Maesawa in Isawa District.
April 15, 1955-The village of Nagashima merged with the town of Hiraizumi from Nishiiwai District to form the new town of Hiraizumi from Nishiiwai District.
www.toshare.info /en/Higashiiwai_District,_Iwate.htm   (296 words)

  
 Mizusawa, Iwate - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
As of 2003, the city had an estimated population of 60,979 and a population density of 629.17 persons per km²;.
On February 20, 2006 the city of Mizusawa merged with the city of Esashi and the municipaltites of Maesawa, Isawa and Koromogawa from Isawa District to form the new city of Oshu.
Mizusawa, Iwate, Merger, Cities in Iwate Prefecture and Dissolved municipalities of Japan.
www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Mizusawa,_Iwate   (129 words)

  
 Casino online portal | information about Casino online | Iwate_Prefecture
On June 6, 2005 the town of Taro and village of Niisato from Shimohei District merged into the expanded city of Miyako.
On September 20, 2005, the towns of Daito, Higashiyama, and Senmaya, and the villages of Kawasaki and Murone all from Higashiiwai District merged with the town of Hanaizumi from Nishiiwai District into the expanded city of Ichinoseki.
On October 1, 2005 the village of Miyamori from Kamihei District merged into the expanded city of Tono.
www.casinohomeportal.com /?u=/Iwate_Prefecture   (997 words)

  
 Morioka,_iwate info here at en.articles-on-stress-of.info   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Hoonji is a temple which was primarily raised at Sannohe by the 13th lord of the Nambu Clan, Moriyuki, in 1394, and brought to Morioka by the 27th lord, Toshinao.
Mitsuishi temple (literally, 'three rocks'), has eight exorbitant rocks on the grounds with shackles everywhere them to represent the narrative of 'Oni no tegata', which is a legend explaining the germ of the eponym of Iwate prefecture.
The Iwate Museum of Art in Morioka showboats pushs by eight notable vernacular artists, Tetsugoro Yorozu, Shunsuke Matsumoto and Yasutake Funakoshi, as together as holding nonpartisans on ethnic and all-embracing themes.
en.articles-on-stress-of.info /Morioka,_Iwate   (739 words)

  
 WAGA: Information from Answers.com (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.cs.virginia.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
WAGA ("FOX5 Atlanta") is the Fox-owned and operated television station (OandO) in Atlanta, Georgia.
Because of this WAGA was made the flagship station of New World for a short period of time.
Also, with the affiliation switch, WAGA remained the home station for the Falcons, as the station had carried them as a CBS affiliate since the team's inception -- the Falcons had played in the NFC West division since 1970 (they are now in the NFC South).
www.answers.com.cob-web.org:8888 /topic/waga-tv   (1230 words)

  
 Hienuki District, Iwate - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.cs.virginia.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
By the time of founding, the district was co-teminous with the city of Hanamaki-excluding the former town of Towa areas.
On January 1, 2006, the district dissolved when both municipalities merged with the town of Towa from Waga District and the former city of Hanamaki to create the new city of Hanamaki.
January 1, 2006-The district merged with the town of Towa from Waga District and the former city of Hanamaki to create the new city of Hanamaki.
en.wikipedia.org.cob-web.org:8888 /wiki/Hienuki_District,_Iwate   (168 words)

  
 directopedia : Directory : Regional : Asia : Japan : Prefectures : Iwate
On January 1, 2006 the towns of Ishidoriya and Ohasama (from Hienuki District) and the town of Towa (from Waga District) will merge into the city of Hanamaki.
On January 1, 2006 the village of Ono and the town of Taneichi (both from Kunohe District) will merge into the town of Hirono.
On January 10, 2006 the village of Tamayama from Iwate District) will merge into the city of Morioka.
directopedia.org /directory/Regional-Asia/Japan-Prefectures-Iwate.shtml   (1025 words)

  
 Atelier Aterui: Juan Goto and Crypto-Christians in Mizusawa Ward, Oshu City, Iwate
The Christian lords of the Kyushu District, Sorin Otomo, Harunobu Arima and Sumitada Omura, sent four boys studying at the Japanese Jesuit school "Seminario nella citta d' Arima, nel Giappone" to Pope of Rome Gregorius XIII (r.1572-1585) in 1582 [the Tensho mission to Europe 1582-1590].
According to the prohibition, if the crypto-Christians found, in the most typical case, the officers put them behind bars and gave the final test using a copper tablet (or something) with a crucifix to be trodden on to prove themselves non-Christians: if they could not trod on, they were sentenced to be crucified.
It is said that there were many Christian "Medai" treasured in this district in the early seventeenth century The Mass-day (feast day) of this hall is set on September 9 and organized by the hereditary members of the Takahashi family since early times.
p-www.iwate-pu.ac.jp /~acro-ito/Japan_pics/Japan_MZS/Juan_Goto.html   (2882 words)

  
 Encyclopedia of Japanese Minerals, by Alfredo Petrov
Akita: Rare in kuroko-type deposits in the Waga-Omono district, where it occurs in the low temperature zone surrounding the sulphide ores, as euhedral platy short-prismatic crystals together with mordenite, pyrite, siderite and Mg-rich smectite, forming veinlets or disseminated aggregates.
Iwate: "Aluminian ferroanthophyllite" occurs as porphyroblastic crystals intimately associated with chamosite ("thuringite") in contact metamorphosed pelites (slates and tuffaceous slates), the hornfels aureole of the Tohno hornblende-biotite granodiorite, on Yakushi-san (Yakushiyama?) in the Miyamori district, Kitakami range.
At the Kotaki mine in the same district, more equant, thick tabular crystals to 9mm, with c, m and x-faces almost equally developed, were found on chalcopyrite, with pyrite and calcite.
www.petrovrareminerals.com /articles02f.html   (3820 words)

  
 Iwate Buddy: The Battle of Sufuse Village
Two of the strongest groups were in the area that is now Iwate; the Shiwa and the Isawa.
The Isawa Emishi seem to have dwelt along the Kitakami River in an area from the Koromo River in the South to perhaps the Waga River in the North; roughly the area encompassed by present day Oshu City and Kanegasaki Town.
There is another useful site about Aterui on the Unveiling Histories of the Tohoku District web site by Eishiro Ito.
iwatebuddy.blogspot.com /2006/05/battle-of-sufuse-village.html   (930 words)

  
 waga, waga   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
In 1992, WAGA began pre-empting CBS This Morning in favor of a locally produced...
As of 2003, the district has an estimated population of 17829 and a density of 23.83 persons per...
http://ps2.ign.com/objects/694/694572.html IGN: Waga ga Ryuu wo Miyo: Pride of the Dragon Peace IGN is the ultimate Waga ga Ryuu wo Miyo: Pride of the Dragon Peace resource for trailers, screenshots, cheats, walkthroughs, release dates, previews,...
waga.tvntv.kom.pl   (496 words)

  
 Nishiwaga, Iwate - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Nishiwaga (西和賀町; -machi) is a town located in Waga District, Iwate, Japan.
A similar competition was held for the new town symbol and motto, all of which may be found on Nishiwaga's homepage, cited in the references section below.
In the southeastern section of Nishiwaga Town the Waga River is restrained by the Yuda Dam, which creates a variable depth man-made lake called Kinshuko Lake.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nishiwaga,_Iwate   (381 words)

  
 THE GENEALOGY OF THE JAPANESE LANGUAGE
For one year beginning in the fall of the same year, I studied the reading of classical Tamil at the University of Madras under Prof.
During the winter break I visited the Trichi district, his home village, and was able to observe the old Tam ii New Year’s celebrations.
Arunasalam Sanmugadas, linguist at the University of Jaffna in Sri Lanka, and his wife Manonmani, came to Japan on a Japan Foundation grant, one of their purposes being to assist me in my research.
arutkural.tripod.com /tolcampus/jap-tamil.htm   (1892 words)

  
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Kazuo Sayama, Waga Na wa Kendrick ("My Name is Kendrick", 1991) and his interesting letters regarding the installation of the bronze statue of Lady Washington in front of Kushimoto station.
Broughton wanted to head south along the coast of Honshu which other than the Iwate section had not been well charted.
Upon the publication of this paper on the internet I hope to include some links to some of these resources on the world wide web so that adventurers in this information age can cross cyber-bridges into the past and continue to explore the early ties between Japan and the United States.
mcel.pacificu.edu /aspac/papers/scholars/mockford/mockford.htm   (12176 words)

  
 Kunohe District, Iwate
Kunohe (九戸郡; -gun) is a district located in Iwate, Japan.
The district has two towns and two villages each.
January 1, 2006-The municipalities of Ōno (spelled "Ohno" by the town.) and Taneichi merged to form the new town of Hirono.
www.danceage.com /biography/sdmc_Kunohe_District,_Iwate   (80 words)

  
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A preliminary report on the Pliocene and Pleistocene strata in the southwestern environs of Hanamaki City, Iwate Prefecture ?
Plant and Molluscan Fossils from the Motohata formation in Waga district, Iwate Pref.
Plant fossils form the Hishinai Formation, Kitakami City, Iwate Pref.
staff.aist.go.jp /miyagi.iso14000/Works/Review/coop/0025/325.html   (124 words)

  
 GMR Watch Center: 001_report アーカイブ
On June 24, farmers and consumers of Niigata prefecture filed a provisional disposition with Niigata District Court Takada Division, urging to stop planting rice seedlings outdoors.
In response to these developments, farmers in Towa town, Waga County, Iwate, have formed a Genetically Modified Rice Watch Network and are starting a movement to monitor and stop these test cultivations.
In particular, rice farmers in Iwate prefecture are proactively opposing GM rice and are being supported by consumer organizations.
teikeimai.net /gmr-watch/file/001_report/index.html   (3047 words)

  
 criterionforum.org :: View topic - Japan’s Shochiku Company at 110
Yasujiro Shimazu, who by this time had directed well over 100 films (most of which are sadly lost), fashioned a story that explores what happens when the intense but brief sensation of pleasure threatens to be transformed into something deeper and more long-lasting.
Relatively plotless, the film moves between several characters, but the real star is the district of Asakusa itself, as gilded a cage as has ever been put on screen.
There, he meets Seiko, and is instantly smitten, yet when he tries to connect with her she doesn’t respond to his advances.
www.criterionforum.org /forum/viewtopic.php?t=2925   (8066 words)

  
 The walk way of Ihatov(English version)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Called the Matsushima of Waga, Tsunatori Hot Spring makes you think you are bathing in a hot spring at Matsushima, one of the top three scenic areas in Japan.
While bathers look out at the scenary they can enjoy bathing in the outdoor bath, the pride of this hot spring.
The water is cooled to a temperature of 48℃ through a heat exchange system not by adding cold water so bathers can enjoy the natural hot spring.
iwachuu.echna.ne.jp /kanko/eg/e_kaoru_2.htm   (472 words)

  
 WEBCAMS
New Atlanta Arena Cam Keep an eye on construction of the new home of the Atlanta Hawks and Atlanta Thrashers.
Skyview 5 Downtown Atlanta, courtesy WAGA - FOX 5.
Tokyo - See the Galen Higashi Dori, in the Roppongi district of Tokyo.
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 Occurrence - Search Result   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
CON CUONG DISTRICT, CHAU KHE REGION, KHE BU, STREAM BELOW CAMP
HUONG SON DISTRICT, RAO AN REGION, MAIN STREAM BELOW BASE CAMP
Kitakami-gawa River system, Sarugaishi-gawa River: Iwate Pref., Waga Cty., Touwa Town
www.fishbase.org /museum/GenusOccurrenceList.cfm?genus=Rhinogobius   (718 words)

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