Aomori Prefecture

Aomori Prefecture (青森県 Aomoriken or frequently Aomori-ken) is located in the Tōhoku Region of Japan. The capital is the city of Aomori. Aomori was named after the Aomori Bay (青森湾; Aomori-wan), which the Ainu described it simply as the "big bay" (大湾/アオモイ; Ao-moi). Aomori Prefecture - History. Aomori Prefecture - Geography. Aomori Prefecture is the northernmost prefecture on Honshu and faces Hokkaido across the Tsugaru Strait. It borders Akit ...

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Aomori Prefecture is the northernmost prefecture on Honshu and faces Hokkaido across the Tsugaru Strait. It borders Akita and Iwate in the south. Oma, at the northwestern tip of the axe-shaped Shimokita Peninsula, is the northernmost point of Honshu. The Shimokita and Tsugaru Peninsulas enclose Mutsu Bay. Between those peninsulas lies the Natsudomari Peninsula, the northern end of the Ou Mountains. The three peninsulas are prominently visible in the prefecture's symbol, a stylized map. Lake Towada, a crate ...

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Aomori Prefecture, Aomori Prefecture - History, Aomori Prefecture - Geography, Aomori Prefecture - Cities, Aomori Prefecture - Towns and villages, Aomori Prefecture - Mergers, Aomori Prefecture - Future mergers, Aomori Prefecture - Economy, Aomori Prefecture - Demographics, Aomori Prefecture - Culture, Aomori Prefecture - Tourism, Aomori Prefecture - Prefectural symbols, Aomori Prefecture - Miscellaneous topics

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Yokohama (Japanese: 横浜市; -shi) is the capital city of Kanagawa Prefecture in Japan. It is Japan's largest incorporated city by population, Japan's largest seaport, and a commercial hub of the Greater Tokyo Area. Yokohama - History. Yokohama was a small fishing village up to the end of the Edo period, a time when Japan conducted very little trade with foreign countries. In 1854, Commodore Matthew Perry arrived just south of Yokohama with a fleet of American warships, and forced Japan to open several po ...

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Ao is a Japanese word including what Westerners would call, separately, blue and green. For example, in Japan, green traffic lights are described as ao shingo, and blue skies are described as ao zora, as in aozora bunko. Ao also appears in the name of Aomori Prefecture. In writing, ao appears in Japanese as あお in hiragana and 青 in kanji. As an adjective, it becomes aoi (青いIncluding:

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To help compare orders of magnitude of different geographical regions, we list here areas between 1,000 km² and 10,000 km². See also areas of other orders of magnitude. areas less than 1000 km² 1,000 km² is equal to: 1 E9 m² in scientific notation 100,000 hectares approx. 386 square miles approx. 247,105 acres. a circle of radius of approx. 18 km. a square of side of approx. 32 km. 1,004 km² -- Samut Prakan Province, Thail ...

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The story of Toyota Motor Corporation began in September 1933 when Toyoda Automatic Loom created a new division devoted to the production of automobiles under the direction of the founder's son, Kiichiro Toyoda. Soon thereafter, the division produced its first Type A Engine in 1934, which was used in the first Model A1 passenger car in May 1935 and the G1 truck in August 1935. Production of the Model AA passenger car started in 1936. Although the Toyota Group is most well known today for its cars, it is still in the textile business and still makes automatic looms (fully computerized, of course), and ele ...

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The story of Toyota Motor Corporation began in September 1933 when Toyoda Automatic Loom created a new division devoted to the production of automobiles under the direction of the founder's son, Kiichiro Toyoda. Soon thereafter, the division produced its first Type A Engine in 1934, which was used in the first Model A1 passenger car in May 1935 and the G1 truck in August 1935 Production of the Model AA passenger car started in 1936. Although the Toyota Group is best known today for its cars, it is still in the textile business and still makes automatic looms (fully computerized, of course), and ele ...

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The construction of Tōhoku Main Line began in the Kanto region and extended to the north end of Honshu, and the city of Aomori. It is one of oldest railway lines in Japan, with construction beginning in the late 19th century. Until November 1, 1906 the current Tōhoku Main Line was run by a private company Nihon Tetsudo (Japan Railway). In 1883 the first segment between Ueno and Kumagaya opened. In 1885 it was extended to Utsunomiya, but the Tone River still had to be crossed by boat. It was not until the construction of the Tone Riv ...

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The area has plenty of Jomon period ruins, the most famous among them being Sannai Maruyama ruins located in the southwest of the city center, where the remains of a large wooden building was unearthed and revolutionalized Japanese archeology. Before the early Edo period, Aomori was a small fishing village called Utō (善知鳥村; Utō-mura). It was settled as a seaport in 1612 by Moriyama Yashichirō, the Port Development Officer of Tsugaru han in the order of daimyō Tsugaru Nobuhira. The town name Aomori was given in that day. Du ...

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Aomori Aomori, Aomori Aomori - History, Aomori Aomori - Climate, Aomori Aomori - Transportation, Aomori Aomori - Sightseeing, Aomori Aomori - Sister cities

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The Ōu North Line began in Aomori, the South Line in Fukushima, and the full line began operation in 1905. Ōu Main Line - Ōu North Line. December 1, 1894: Aomori — Hirosaki October 21, 1895: Hirosaki — Ikarigaseki June 21, 1899: Ikarigaseki — Shirasawa November 15, 1899: Shirasawa — Ōdate October 7, 1900: Ōdate — Takanosu Novermber 1, 1901: Takanosu — Noshiro (present-day Higashi-Noshiro) August 1, 1902: Noshiro — Gojōme (prese ...

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Ōu Main Line, Ōu Main Line - Route Data, Ōu Main Line - Service, Ōu Main Line - Fukushima — Shinjō 148.6km, Ōu Main Line - Shinjō — Ōmagari 98.4km, Ōu Main Line - Ōmagari — Akita 51.7km, Ōu Main Line - Akita — Aomori 185.8km, Ōu Main Line - Timeline, Ōu Main Line - Ōu North Line, Ōu Main Line - Ōu South Line, Ōu Main Line - Ōu Main Line, Ōu Main Line - Station List

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On October 1998, the 1 billionth passenger was carried on Tohoku, Joetsu and Nagano Shinkansen lines. An extension from Hachinohe to Shin-Aomori is under construction and is scheduled for completion around 2010. From Aomori, construction is underway to continue the line under the name Hokkaido Shinkansen, passing through the world's longest railway tunnel, the Seikan Tunnel to Shin-Hakodate on Hokkaido, and eventually all the way to Sapporo. The mountainous terrain that the line passes through has necessitated heavy reliance on ...

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Tōhoku Shinkansen, Tōhoku Shinkansen - Timeline, Tōhoku Shinkansen - Trains, Tōhoku Shinkansen - List of stations

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Archeological digs have uncovered Clovis artifacts and other ancient artifacts dating back almost 12,000 years that enlightened us to the fact that people migrating during the last ice age settled in Wenatchee. Some believe that the people who remained became the Yakama Indians. The Yakima inhabited this area for ten millennia. The Columbia provided an ample supply of food. They took refuge from the flooding river on the ...

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Dazai was born Shuji Tsushima (津島修治), the eighth surviving child of a wealthy landowner in Tsugaru, a remote corner of Japan at the northern tip of Tōhoku. An excellent student at school and an able writer even then, his life only started to change when his idol writer Akutagawa Ryunosuke committed suicide in 1927. Shuji started to neglect his studies, spending his allowance on clothes, booze and geisha and dabbling with Marxism, at the time heavily suppressed by the government. On December 10, 1929, the night before year-end ...

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Iwate was historically part of Mutsu Province. It was only brought into the empire around 800. In the Jomon period it was an area abundant in fishing and hunting. There were also Emishi settlements in the Kitakami Basin. The Emishi, which translates as either toad or shrimp barbarians, were regarded by contemporary chroniclers as a race apart living in an independent state with a different language - possibly a variant of Old Japanese, or perhaps of Ainu. They were known for their tempers and their valour in battle. Whether they were ...

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Iwate Prefecture, Iwate Prefecture - History, Iwate Prefecture - Geography, Iwate Prefecture - Cities, Iwate Prefecture - Towns and villages, Iwate Prefecture - Mergers, Iwate Prefecture - Economy, Iwate Prefecture - Demographics, Iwate Prefecture - Culture, Iwate Prefecture - Tourism, Iwate Prefecture - Prefectural symbols, Iwate Prefecture - Basho

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Hiroyuki Takei was born at Yomogida in Aomori Prefecture, located in the northern Honshu of Japan. His beginnings was marked by his manga SD Hyakkaten Series that he created for a fanzine. His success was growing and he didn't wait to become the assistant of famous manga's like Nobuhiro Watsuki (Ruroni Kenshin) and Tamakichi Sakura (Sabaki no kaminari). It was with his first manga series "Butsu Zone" published in Shonen ...

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Miyazawa Kenji was born in Hanamaki in 1896, where he spent most of his life (although he traveled often and spent a period of time living in Tokyo). Miyazawa’s invented Esperanto word Ihatov refers to Iwate prefecture in general, and is agreed to refer more specifically to Hanamaki itself. On April 1, 1954 six towns consolidated into the former city of Hanamaki. Those seven towns (in rough order of size category) were: Hanamaki-cho, Yuguchi-mura, Yumoto-mura, Miyanome-mura, Yasawa-mura, and Ohta-mura. An additional seventh tow ...

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Hanamaki Iwate, Hanamaki Iwate - History, Hanamaki Iwate - Geography, Hanamaki Iwate - Demographics, Hanamaki Iwate - Transportation, Hanamaki Iwate - Tourist Attractions

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List of Han - Mutsu Province. Tonami - Created in 1870 from part of former Aizu han. Consisted of the districts of Kita (today Kamikita and Shimokita districts) and Sannohe, both in modern-day Aomori and Ninohe in Iwate. Capital was at modern-day Mutsu, Aomori Kunohe - Branch of Morioka han, corresponded to modern Kunohe District, Iwate? Hirosaki - Located in modern-day Aomori Prefecture Kuroishi - Branch of Hirosaki han, based in modern-day Kuroishi, A ...

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List of Han, List of Han - Hokkaido, List of Han - Tohoku, List of Han - Mutsu Province, List of Han - Kyushu

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Yokohama was a small fishing village up to the end of the Edo period, a time when Japan conducted very little trade with foreign countries. In 1854, Commodore Matthew Perry arrived just south of Yokohama with a fleet of American warships, and forced Japan to open several ports for commerce. Yokohama was designated as a foreign port instead of Kanagawa, which the Tokugawa shogunate feared was too close to the Tokaido, a strategic highway connect ...

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