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  • After the quake and tsunami, four thermal power facilities in Fukushima, Ibaraki and Kanagawa Prefectures remain suspended.

    Japan Utility Struggles to Maintain Power Levels Juro Osawa 2011

  • Prefectures wishing to test their vegetables may have to transport the samples to a distant research lab.

    Radiation in Food Rises Juro Osawa 2011

  • I, for one, was proud of His Holiness the Dalai Lama when he spoke strongly about the Chinese Communist Party's oppressive treatment of Tibetan Buddhist monks in Tibet [the whole of Tibet, being all the Tibet Autonomous Prefectures and Counties as well as the Tibet Autonomous Region].

    Robert Thurman: China Is Attempting to Wipe Out Buddhism 2010

  • We are currently somewhere between Aichi and Shizuoka Prefectures, connecting to the internet through a wireless router in our “location bus,” which I am pretty sure is not an English word.

    Néojaponisme » Blog Archive » Infiniti Brand Journey: Kyoto 2010

  • I, for one, was proud of His Holiness the Dalai Lama when he spoke strongly about the Chinese Communist Party's oppressive treatment of Tibetan Buddhist monks in Tibet [the whole of Tibet, being all the Tibet Autonomous Prefectures and Counties as well as the Tibet Autonomous Region].

    China Is Attempting to Wipe Out Buddhism Robert Thurman 2010

  • Tonight a pigeon landed in The Huntsman's loft with the excellent news that Regional Assemblies, those deeply undemocratic, unloved prototypes for Emperor Barroso's Prefectures are to have their chips cashed in.

    Archive 2007-07-15 2007

  • Tonight a pigeon landed in The Huntsman's loft with the excellent news that Regional Assemblies, those deeply undemocratic, unloved prototypes for Emperor Barroso's Prefectures are to have their chips cashed in.

    Tub O'Lard's Legacy Melts Away 2007

  • Prefectures have armed forces, police and fire brigade staff on standby and missile interceptors are poised to shoot down any errant parts of the rocket.

    Worries Rise as North Korea Nears Missile Launch Peter Spiegel 2009

  • Managed by the Ministry of the Environment (ME), in cooperation with the Forestry Agency and the Governers of the two local Prefectures.

    Shirakami-sanchi (Shirakami mountains), Japan 2009

  • Most of the other 3 million Tibetans live on the rest of the plateau, in officially designated "Tibetan Autonomous Prefectures and Counties" under the jurisdiction of the provinces of Qinghai, Sichuan, Gansu and Yunnan.

    Human Rights Watch: Year After Tibet Riots, Hundreds Of Detainees And Prisoners Unaccounted For 2009

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