Maruko

In 2002, the town -- along with the Nippon COMSYS Corp., a builder of telecommunications infrastructure -- launched a computerized system called the Maruko Town Emergency Report, to watch over the old folks living alone.

HOME CARE: WATCHING OUT FOR MOM 2007

If she has a younger sister, finding some subtitled eps of Chibi Maruko-chan on youtube could be fun.

Anime Bleg Rogers 2008

If you applied that kind of reasoning in Maruko, then any legal system denying to gay partners benefits traditionally given to spouses - for instance by refusing to introduce any system of civil partnership - would discriminate unlawfully.

Archive 2008-04-01 2008

But the alternative approach taken here means that it's only liberal countries like Germany and Britain, which have set up civil partnership systems broadly equating to marriage, which can be found guilty of Maruko discrimination.

Archive 2008-04-01 2008

One of their recent projects is transcribing the new Chibi Maruko-chan manga which was restarted by creator Momoko Sakura in July 2007 into Braille.

Anime & Manga News (Late July/Early August) | The Anime Blog 2007

At 78, Yoshiko Takano was still independent, energetic and very attached to her friends, home and gardens -- as well as her favorite karaoke class -- in Maruko, a peaceful town 200 kilometers northwest of Tokyo.

HOME CARE: WATCHING OUT FOR MOM 2007

As it turned out, Maruko was already on top of the issue.

HOME CARE: WATCHING OUT FOR MOM 2007

But for one 37-year-old who goes by the pen name Kajipon Maruko Zangetsu, it was a time of torment due to family problems and a majorly broken heart.

Archive 2005-06-01 2005

It was established by nine members from a miso factory at Maruko, Nagano Prefecture

Chapter 20 1979

As they were unable to take back the dog, they hoped the pound would hold Maruko until they could get proper housing and be reunited.

The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Amy Chavez 2011