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| | Japan. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 |
 | | Military extremists instigated the assassination of Prime Minister Inukai in 1932 and an attempted coup in 1936. | | | Both nations were upset by school history textbooks that minimized aspects of Japan’s role in World War II, despite the fact that the textbooks were used by very few schools. | | | The old myths of imperial and racial divinity, rediscovered by scholars in the Tokugawa period, were revived, and the sentiment of loyalty to the emperor was actively propagated by the new government. |
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| | Japan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The Local Government Law of Japan divides the country into 47 prefectures, which carry out administrative duties independently of the central government. | | | Despite a major stock market crash in 1990, from which the country has not yet fully recovered, Japan remains a global economic power and has recently begun to re-emerge as a strategic power, lending non-combat support to the Gulf War, the UN efforts to rebuild Cambodia, and the 2003 invasion of Iraq. | | | Sometimes these returnees are not considered truly Japanese and sometimes suspected of being a descent of old feudal Burakumin "unclean" caste, a group of people known to have immigrated to South American countries, and subject to discrimination. |
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| | Japanese history: Meiji Period |
| | This was achieved already in 1870 and followed by the restructuring of the country in prefectures. | | | The new government aimed to make Japan a democratic state with equality among all its people. | | | Political parties did not yet gain real power due to the lack of unity among their members. |
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| | Japan |
| | In opposition are the Democratic Party of Japan, the Social Democratic Party, and the Japanese Communist Party. | | | Japan maintains one of the world's largest fishing fleets and accounts for nearly 15% of the global catch, prompting some claims that Japan's fishing is leading to overdepletion in fish stocks such as tuna. | | | Japan is a temperate region with four distinct seasons, but because of its great length from north to south, its climate varies from region to region: the far north is very cold in the winter, while the far south is subtropical. |
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| | Japan Districts |
| | Japan is divided into 43 ken (prefectures), one to (metropolis - Tokyo), one do (territory - Hokkaido), and two fu (urban prefectures- Kyoto and Osaka). | | | Japan still asserts its claim to the southern Kuril Islands, including Etorofu, Kunashiri, Shikotan, Shibotsu, and Suisho, which have been administratively part of Russia since the war's end. | | | He has received some of this information from a Japanese organization, the Council of Local Authorities for International Relations. |
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| | University of Minnesota Human Rights Library |
| | The Committee urges the State party to carry out an investigation, on its own and jointly with the prefectures, to assess the extent and causes of homelessness in Japan. | | | The Committee requests the State party to annex a copy of its national plan of action to its third periodic report, and to explain how the plan promotes and protects economic, social and cultural rights. | | | This contravenes article 8 (2) of the Covenant (to which the State party has made a reservation), and the ILO Convention (No. 87) concerning Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organize, despite the existence of alternative systems of personnel committees. |
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| | Hiroshima, Japan - BootsnAll.com |
| | The city government, almost totally destroyed by the bombing, was not capable of taking over the reconstruction work and was forced to depend heavily on aid from other areas of Hiroshima Prefecture and neighbouring prefectures. | | | As most other cities in Japan tore up their street car tracks after World War II, their cars were added to Hiroshima's collection, and so the city has acquired an eclectic collection of tram cars, many dating back to the 1940s, it seemed an appropriate way to travel. | | | Yoshiro Saeki, a noted religious historian was opposed to the idea of building Hiroshima as a large city. |
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| | It's not just Sushi II -- More of Bill Stonehill's reports from from Japan |
| | Prefectures in Japan are the level of government between cities and villages and the central government, and are the equivalent of states in the USA. | | | Japan is the only industrialized nation in the world that does not have some way to dispose of PCBs. | | | Japan is signatory to all sorts of treaties barring chemical warfare and requiring destruction of chemical weapons, all signed with much pious muttering and then completely ignored. |
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| | Prefecture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The local self-governing system of Japan consists of 2 classes: prefectures as the large area local governing units and municipalities the basic local governing units. | | | Japan is divided into 47 prefectures and each prefecture is further divided into municipalities. | | | subprefectures are used as special administrative units because such regions are too large or remote for a single prefectural government to govern. |
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| | Jepang - Wikipédia |
| | Japan maintains one of the world's largest fishing fleets and accounts for nearly 15% of the global catch, prompting some claims that Japan's fishing is leading to overdepletion in fish stocks such as tuna as well as killing whales for 'scientific research', and the whale meat somehow ending up in seafood restaurants. | | | Japan is a temperate region with four distinct seasons, but because of its great length from north to south, its climate varies from region to region: the far north is very cold in the winter, while the far south is subtropical. | | | Over repeated ice-ages during the last million years, Japan was regularly connected by land bridges to the Asian mainland (by Sakhalin to the North, and probably Kyushu to the South), facilitating migrations of humans, animals and plants to the Japanese archipelago from the area that is now China and Korea. |
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| | Pictures of Japan - Japan-101.com |
| | Japan is divided into 8 regions, each consisting of several prefectures except for Hokkaido which is a single region and prefecture. | | | Japan is divided into 47 prefectures, similar to US states. | | | Modern culture captured in the faces and actions of the Japanese people. |
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| | Prefectures of Japan |
| | The only to in Japan is Tokyo, which was created by merging the city of Tokyo with the prefecture of Tokyo in 1943. | | | The term dō (circuit) was originally used to refer to regions of Japan consisting of several han, such as Tokaidō and Saikaidō (see: Provinces of Japan). | | | Japan is divided into 47 local jurisdictions: one metropolitan district (都; To), Tokyo; one circuit (道; Dō), Hokkaido; two urban prefectures (府; Fu), Osaka and Kyoto); and 43 rural prefectures (県; Ken). |
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| | PURCHASED - Online Information article about PURCHASED |
| | Average from 1886 to 1889 8,739,273 1895 19,087,310 1900 20, 705,644 1905 21,630, 829 1906 24,215,324 The chief silk-producing prefectures in Japan, according to the order of production, are Nagano, Gumma, Yamanashi, Fukushima, Aichi and Saitama. | | | Encouragement by grants in aid was also given to the establishment of similar experimental farms by private persons in the various prefectures, and such farms are now to be found everywhere. | | | Forests.Forests occupy an area of 55 millions of acres, or 60 % of the total superficies of Japan, and one-third of that expanse, namely, 18 million acres, approximately, is the property of the state. |
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| | Outdoor Japan - Your guide to travel and the outdoors in Japan |
| | Within Japan, there are three well-known examples, all of them located in the south: Akiyoshidai in Yamaguchi prefecture, the largest and most famous of the three; Hiraodai in Fukuoka, Kyushu; and Shikoku Karst on the border of Ehime and Kochi prefectures. | | | See some fun video clips of great places and activities in Japan. | | | Guess T House is a multi-cultural guest house located in the heart of Tokyo just few minutes from Roppongi Hills. |
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| | Japan, my Japan! |
| | Japan for Dummies - a humorous description of everyday life in Japan. | | | This symbol of the beautiful land is located on the border of Shizuoka and Yamanashi Prefectures. | | | My Japan - a series of episodes by an Australian living in Japan. |
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| | Abolition of the han system - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Initially there were over 300 prefectures, corresponding to the number of han, but this number was reduced to 72 by the end of 1871, and the present 47 by 1888. | | | In 1871, the abolition of the han system and establishment of the prefecture system (廃藩置県, haihan-chiken; hai abolish + han + chi set down + ken prefecture) was an act to replace the traditional han system and introduce new local government. | | | In an attempt to wipe out feudalism in Japan, the new Meiji government, which replaced the Tokugawa shogunate, abolished hundreds of feudal domains or han. |
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| | Under the Meiji regime, Japan's former feudal territories became prefectures, with Okinawa the southernmost of these. | | | Following Okinawa's establishment as a prefecture, cultural ties between Japan and Okinawa intensified, and, as Haun and Henry (1997:10) summarize, Okinawa's political and social structures were brought into conformity with those of the reorganized Japan. | | | Although evidence is increasing for the inception of agriculture on Honshu, mainland Japan, as early as 5500 to 4500 B.P., during the Middle Jomon Period (Imamura 1996:101). |
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| | Japan, my Japan! |
| | This symbol of the beautiful land is located on the border of Shizuoka and Yamanashi Prefectures. | | | Japan for Dummies - a humorous description of everyday life in Japan. | | | This page seeks to collect any and all useful Internet materials related to Japan. |
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| | Subprefecture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Some Japanese prefectures have branch offices called 支庁 (shicho) in Japanese, which are translated in English as "subprefectures", "branch offices", or "branches of the prefectural government". | | | See details in Subprefectures of Japan and an example of Kushiro Subprefecture. | | | Subprefecture is an administrative level that is below prefecture or province. |
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| | Omniseek: /Politics /Japan /National Government |
| | Each of Japan's prefectures has a statistics section within its own prefectural government. | | | Japan is slightly smaller than the state of California. | | | Nagoya told to shave budget By JEFF ADAMS Calgary Herald Japan's economy is hurting so badly that the traditionally spend-happy corporate sector is urging federal officials to drastically cut back... |
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| | Japan, my Japan! |
| | Japan for Dummies - a humorous description of everyday life in Japan. | | | This symbol of the beautiful land is located on the border of Shizuoka and Yamanashi Prefectures. | | | My Japan - a series of episodes by an Australian living in Japan. |
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| | Subprefectures of Japan |
| | Subprefectures, called 支庁 (shicho) or 庁 (cho), in Japan are subdivision of local administrations units, above cities and towns and below prefectures. |
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| | Near Okinawa Island and Japan's Southernmost island "Yonagumi" Island.Stones in the pictures look much more man-made to me, than stone pavements of "lost civilization" off Bimini Island (I watch Discovery Channel very often!). | | | Prefectural List for the Islands and Prefectures of Okinawa | | | A lot of information on Okinawa with frequent updates. |
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| | Prefecture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The local self-governing system of Japan consists of 2 classes: prefectures as the large area local governing units and municipalities, the basic local governing units. | | | In the Japanese system, the word prefecture (県; ken) is used for translating references to an administrative district, which is about the area of a county in the United States but, on average, about half the population of a state. | | | Modern Greece, under its 1975 Constitution, is divided into 51 nomoi (Greek:νομοί) which form the units of local government. |
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| | Japan, my Japan! |
| | Japan for Dummies - a humorous description of everyday life in Japan. | | | This symbol of the beautiful land is located on the border of Shizuoka and Yamanashi Prefectures. | | | My Japan - a series of episodes by an Australian living in Japan. |
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| | ASU Libraries: Japanese Studies Subject Guide |
| | Glossary and indexes are given by Japanese names, and branch museums and other collections by prefectures and by types of collections. | | | The world maps, maps of Japan, and route maps are noted in chronological order, while regional, provincial, and city maps are placed according to geographic locations. | | | This publication covers dissertations originally presented in the United States, 18 European nations, Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, India, Israel, Japan, the Philippines, Republic of China, and Republic of S. Africa. |
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