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In one example, marketer and blogger happy-kernel commented on the news that the Kakegawa City Amateur Sports Association in Shizuoka Prefecture is starting an agricultural farm business.

Global Voices in English » Go Farm, Young Man! – How Farming in Japan is Changing 2009

While the official result was still pending late yesterday, Toru Hashimoto , who stood down as governor of Osaka Prefecture to stand in the race for city mayor, looked certain to win the election on a platform of merging the prefecture and city.

Osaka Voters Reject Status Quo Of Japan's Main Parties Mari Iwata 2011

Mr. Noda's cabinet got off to a bit of a rocky start, with one minister forced to resign a week after taking office over controversial remarks he made about Fukushima Prefecture, which is at the center of Japan's worst nuclear accident.

Key Japan Survey Shows Economy Is Rebounding Megumi Fujikawa 2011

There were three in all, the highest measuring 6.8 on the Richter scale, all of them happening in Niigata Prefecture, which is north of Tokyo.

CNN Transcript Oct 23, 2004 2004

If on the other hand it is a case which Police Headquarters are investigating on their own initiative and if, in the end, there is neither crime nor culprit, then the bill for expenses is charged to the Prefecture, that is to say to the Ministry of the Interior.

Maigret has Scruples Simenon, Georges, 1903- 1958

Consequently, Propaganda placed the northern part of the vicariate, under the name of the Prefecture of Upper Cimbebasia, in charge of the Congregation of the Holy Ghost (1 August, 1892), while the German territory was called the Prefecture of Lower Cimbebasia, and given to the Oblate Fathers of Mary.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913

Fat monkeys spend their time in a 420-square-meter enclosure at Ohama park in Sakai, Osaka Prefecture on May 4, 2008.

NYDN Rss 2011

The epicenter of the earthquakes was a sparsely populated, rural area about 50 km west of Jyeku (Chinese: Jiegu or Gyegu) town, the government seat of Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, which is about 800 km south-west of Xining, the provincial capital of Qinghai.

YubaNet.com 2010

And China's Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture, which is home to a large ethnic Korean population and also borders the reclusive state, has suffered the worst floods in 100 years,

Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2010

And China's Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture, which is home to a large ethnic Korean population and also borders the reclusive state, has suffered the worst floods in 100 years,

Latest News - Yahoo!7 News 2010