| Nagano Prefecture was brought into the limelight with the successful 1998 Winter Olympics which were held at various locations in the prefecture. |
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| Along the stream headed towards Nagano, there is an area where whistling swans have recently been making their stopovers. |
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| Nagano is also known for good walnuts, and there are equally lots of sweets using walnuts. |
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| Word of Nagano got to Frank Zappa, who in 1983 enlisted him to conduct his fiendishly tricky classical works with the London Symphony Orchestra. |
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| At the 1998 Nagano Olympics, he was rapped by Bazay for criticizing the selection of freestyle skier Jean-Luc Brassard as Canada's flag-bearer. |
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| During this year's ski season, Ace Helicopters took more than 2,000 people heli-skiing in Nagano Prefecture. |
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| While there, she first taught English in the Nagano Prefecture and then was hired on at a local school board in Yokohama. |
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| Nagano specials are those of soba noodle with wasabi and chili pepper mix. |
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| She went to Nagano as the heavy favorite, skated tentatively and was upset by teammate Tara Lipinski. |
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| It is the official bird of Gifu, Nagano, and Toyama Prefectures and is a protected species nationwide. |
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| It is said that Mount Iizuna, from the Nagano Prefecture, got its name due to how the gods gave people mastery of this technique from there. |
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| Hatoyama clashed with Tojo and, as a result, he had to spend some time in seclusion at a villa in Karuizawa, Nagano Prefecture. |
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| The HDD head development and manufacturing operations are currently performed at the Nagano Plant. |
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| Shintaro Ishihara, declared his candidacy Monday in the Nagano gubernatorial election to fill the post left vacant by the ouster of Gov. |
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| Despite not really being prepared to host, Nagano won the bid. |
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| The precise figures are unknown since Nagano, after the IOC asked that the entertainment expenditures not be made public, destroyed the financial records. |
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