Hiroshima is a traditional center of the Chugoku region and was the seat of the Mori clan until the Battle of Sekigahara.
On March 22, 2005, the town of Daiwa from the former Kamo District (dissolved by this action), the town of Kui from Mitsugi District, and the town of Hongo from Toyota District merged into the expanded city of Mihara.
Hiroshima's main industries include automobiles (Mazda is headquartered in Hiroshima Prefecture) and shipbuilding (Kure was one of the main naval bases of the Imperial Japanese Navy and remains a major commercial yard).
Kure (呉市; -shi) is a city located in Hiroshima, Japan.
As of the March 20, 2005 expansion but with October 1, 2004 population data, the city has an estimated population of 252,253 and a density of 714 persons per km².
March 20, 2005 The towns of Ondo, Kurahashi, Kamagari in Aki District and the towns of Yasuura, Toyohama and Yutaka were merged into Kure.
It is located about an hour by train on the Kure Line east of Hiroshima on the coast of the Seto Inland Sea.
Parts of the mountain are in Kawajiri and the villages of Yasuura and Kurose.
Kawajiri is part of Kure City which is on the Seto Inland Sea east of Hiroshima City.
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Keith Koala(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Yasuura is about 50km from Hiroshima on the island of Honshu.
Hiroshima is a very beautiful city, but another reason why Hiroshima is well known is because it was where the first atomic bomb was dropped.
It was thought that nothing would grow in Hiroshima for seventy years, but with the help of people in Japan and abroad, Hiroshima was completely re-built.
When I made my first visit to Japan in 1991 for a six-week home-stay in Hiroshima, the long history of Japan was immediately apparent.
Five years later I returned to Japan to teach English in Yasuura, an oyster-harvesting town on the Inland Sea.
The banks of the tidal riverbed nearby had been recently reinforced with concrete, but on early mornings in the spring, the river fish were still being trapped by traditional methods that employed a system of nets, ropes and pulleys.
Oasa, Hiroshima -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
[Categories: Dissolved municipalities of Japan, Towns in Hiroshima Prefecture]
On February 1, 2005 the town merged with three other towns from the district forming the town of (additional info and facts about Kitahiroshima) Kitahiroshima.
As of 2003, the town had an estimated ((statistics) the entire aggregation of items from which samples can be drawn) population of 3,711 and a (The amount per unit size) density of 41.01 persons per (additional info and facts about km²;) km²;.
Middle East Open Encyclopedia: Hiroshima Prefecture(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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Iraq Museum International always displays the most recent published revision of the source article, Hiroshima Prefecture; all previous versions may be viewed here.
They link directly to authoring tools for you to start writing a particular article.
The ukase about the specification of the disaster which affects a specific area about 1990 and the specification of the ...(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The one which affects an area in Ishikawa Prefecture Wajima City, and Suzu City, Shimane Prefecture Ochi District Ochi-cho, Yamato-mura, Hasumi-mura, Hiroshima Prefecture Jinseki District Yuki-cho and 3 pieces of county Sakugi-son in both by the disaster by the cloudburst until the 18th from 1990 August 16th
"RO" Nara Prefecture Yoshino District Nosegawa-mura, Hiroshima Prefecture Kamo District Kawachi-machi and Toyota District Yasuura-cho, Tokushima Prefecture Ama District Kainan-cho, Miyoshi District Yamashiro-cho and Nishiiyayama-son, Ehime Prefecture Kamiukena District Yanadani-mura, Kita District Kawabe-mura and Kochi Prefecture Kami District Monobe-mura, Tosa District Kagami-mura, Tosa-cho and Hongawa-mura, Agawa District Gohoku-mura, Takaoka District Yusuhara-cho and Niyodo-mura
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Rebecca Schmidt #2(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Rebecca went to Japan in the summer of 1997 to teach English as a second language in Yasuura, a village on the Inland Sea about 40 miles west of Hiroshima.
Rebecca was bid farewell by her fellow teachers after a 3-year stay in Yasuura, the maximum time allowed by the JET program.
Rebecca, Margaret and Steve wearing yukatas at the Dogo Onsen in Matsuyama, Japan.
Michitada Morisue Department of Information Sciences, Hiroshima City University 3-4-1,Ozuka Higashi,Asa-Minami-ku, Hiroshima, Japan,731-3194 Phone: +81-82-830-1678 Fax: +81-82-830-1678 E-mail: morisue@im.hiroshima-cu.ac.jp No.55 Prof.
Masahiro Sakamoto Faculty of Information Sciences Hiroshima City University 3-4-1, Ozuka-higashi, Asa-minami-ku Hiroshima 731-3194, Japan Phone: +81-82-830-1666 Fax: +81-82-830-1666 E-mail: sakamoto@im.hiroshima-cu.ac.jp No.74 Prof.
Hiroto Yasuura Dept. of Computer science and Communication Eng.
