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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But first an application has to be made to the local prefecture with a mountain of paperwork involved. |
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These might look ordinary trees, but they are in fact a very special present from the governor of the Nara prefecture in Japan. |
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In October an earthquake measuring 6.8 on the Richter scale struck Japan's Niigata prefecture. |
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The government followed up on these demands in 1900 by mandating the creation of public reformatories in each prefecture. |
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Takamatsu, in the prefecture of Kagawa, on the island of Shikoku, to the south of Japan is to noodle lovers what Mecca is to Muslims. |
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The Okinawa prefecture was in fact under direct U.S. military administration from 1945 to 1972, when it was handed over to the Japanese. |
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The island prefecture of Okinawa has the most centenarians per population, and the official attributed this to the subtropical climate. |
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It is possible to appeal against the sanctions within 60 days, to the prefecture or justice of the peace. |
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On average, one to three matrixes are studied on each site depending on the local environmental context and the demands of the prefecture. |
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A survivalist mood deepened in Miyagi prefecture, and spread in nearby Yamagata prefecture. |
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His children, however, ran about merrily, making new friends and helping themselves to food provided by the prefecture. |
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Most of the refugees streamed in from Fukushima prefecture, and many were trying to get away from a radiation threat. |
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The story was originally to revolve around Jikisai Minami, a well-respected Zen Buddhist priest in Aomori prefecture. |
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On October 2011, the prefecture established an ordinance imposing fines and potential jail time. |
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Hiroo Onoda was born on March 19 1922 at the village of Kamekawa in the Wakayama prefecture of south Japan. |
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Forestry and stockbreeding, however, are well developed, and rice paddies are scattered throughout the prefecture. |
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My name is TETE Akou Laetitia, a woman farmer in Agome-Yoh in the prefecture of Kloto in Togo. |
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To avoid the name calling that a woman would probably receive at a horse fair, he got permission from the prefecture of police to dress in men's clothing. |
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Requested use of Emblem: to be used as a means of identification of a World Heritage site on a web page of the Akita prefecture web site. |
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The prefecture will stop using workshops for industrial production, and settlers in the General Building of the General Zhang Aiping will be relocated. |
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Originating from Nakai tea garden in the Uji prefecture, this tea has a beautiful emerald colour with fresh and herbaceous appealing notes. |
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Aurillac, a lovely city at the foot of the Cantal mountains, has the dubious distinction of being the prefecture in France furthest from a motorway. |
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One of his first tasks after buying a dilapidated farmhouse in the Chiba prefecture, about 60 miles east of Tokyo, was to build a huge wooden bathtub. |
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An official at the prefecture said the most urgent need was tents because the cold nights were starting in earnest. |
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Typhoon Khanun was located about 70 kilometers south of Miyako Island in the prefecture as of 3 p.m. Saturday and was heading northwest at 25 km per hour, the agency said. |
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Residents of Tottori, on the other hand, know that their prefecture benefits from their relatively stronger voice in both houses of the Diet. |
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This procedure consists in going to the prefecture building with the landowner who will admit having granted the lot free. |
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Statement taken from a survivor at the Polyclinic of Hope in Kagugu, prefecture of Kigali. |
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On 10 August the prefecture ordered the local police to question the mother and to ascertain the circumstances surrounding the abduction. |
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On 2 August the father contacted the prefecture in Willisau to have the decision of 12 July enforced. |
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The location of the site chosen by the prefecture did not fall within our boundaries, so it ended up being managed instead by public authorities. |
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In May 2010, similar services are also scheduled to launch in Gaoxiong prefecture, adjacent to Pingdong. |
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Perishables such as vegetables, fruits, and flowers can be conveniently shipped to the markets in the eastern part of the prefecture. |
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The construction permit for this site has been revoked by the French courts and the Corporation has filed a regularization permit with the departmental prefecture. |
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In addition to the conditions set out in article 18 above, a foreign resident wishing to leave the national territory must be in possession of an exit visa issued by the prefecture of his place of residence. |
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We nevertheless put at your disposal an assistance service for all registration request and information, fiscal quietus, foreign documents registration at the prefecture, true certificates acquisition. |
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In Akita, a rural prefecture in northern Honshu, the LDP candidate was trounced a year ago by the incumbent governor, Sukeshiro Terata, who ran unattached to any party. |
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Balneology, which is based on 2 sectors, rheumatology and ORL, registers approximately 250.000 overnight stays, representing a high potential for the alpine prefecture. |
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Oku-noto no Aenokoto is an agricultural ritual transmitted from generation to generation by the rice farmers of the Noto Peninsula, which projects from Ishikawa prefecture in the centre of Japan's main island, Honshu. |
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Harvesting regulations are developed at the prefecture level, but flexibility exists for the FCAs to adopt the regulations to suit local management objectives. |
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On June 5th a governor was re-elected in Aomori prefecture, on the northern tip of Honshu, who said he would keep its two nuclear-power plants provided an experts' committee was set up that vouched for their safety. |
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Mr Suga's late father was a struggling farmer from Akita prefecture, among the poorest, who in middle age gave up trying to make a living from growing rice. |
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Friday October 24th, 2008 was a very special day for the women of Birao, the capital of the prefecture of Vakaga, which is in the far north east of the Central African Republic. |
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No information is forthcoming from either the Forensic Science Institute, which falls under the prefecture of police, to which all corpses found on the public highway are taken, or undertakers. |
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Now Satsumasendai in Kagoshima prefecture, on the southern tip of Kyushu, southernmost of Japan's four main islands, is likely to be the country's first city to approve the restart of a nuclear plant. |
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In 2012, before two reactors at Oi in Fukui prefecture were switched back on for a while, the governor there ensured that the then prime minister, Yoshihiko Noda, reassured the public over the plant's safety. |
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Like many residents, Mr Somekawa, who is now 47, is dismayed at the news, but he says the decision is well-nigh inevitable. The final word will come from the governor of Kagoshima prefecture and from Satsumasendai's mayor. |
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Except for the Vakaga prefecture, where a return to the villages had been noted, in the North-Western and Central Northern regions, the humanitarian situation had instead deteriorated. |
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Shimane prefecture had an estimated 743 centenarians per million inhabitants. |
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The metropolitan government also administers 39 municipalities in the western part of the prefecture and the two outlying island chains. |
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To pay for the added administrative costs, the prefecture collects municipal taxes, which would usually be levied by the city. |
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Stilicho actually proposed using Alaric's troops to enforce Honorius' claim to the prefecture of Illyricum. |
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In 397, Alaric was named military commander of the eastern Illyrian prefecture by Arcadius. |
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To the south, Vietnam gained lasting independence after being a Chinese prefecture for many centuries. |
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The Okinawa prefecture consists of a chain of islands extending from the southwestern-most main island of Japan down toward Taiwan. |
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Okinawa Prefecture hopes the new flight service will help double the number of Chinese tourists visiting Japan's southwest island prefecture. |
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He had to go down to the prefecture and could not welcome you himself. |
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The country is divided into 47 prefectures in eight regions, with Hokkaido being the northernmost prefecture and Okinawa being the southernmost one. |
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In 1929 the Society was put in charge of the apostolic prefecture of Szepingkai, erected on portions of the vicariates of Jehol and Mukden, Manchuria. |
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On the wall of his bedroom hung an illuminated scroll, the certificate of his prefecture in the college of the sodality of the Blessed Virgin Mary. |
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The elevation of the prefecture generally increases from southwest to northeast, with mountains forming the backbone of the city and the ocean comprising the front. |
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Each prefecture is further divided into cities, towns and villages. |
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