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Chiba
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Chiba , city (1990 pop. 829,455), capital of Chiba prefecture, central Honshu, Japan, on Tokyo Bay. It is...paper products, and plastics. It was the residence of the Chiba daimyo from the 12th to the 16th cent. The city retains...
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Tokyo
Encyclopedia entry from: Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of World Cities
...prefectures of Tokyo, Saitaima, Kanagawa, and Chiba, while the city of Tokyo proper usually...largest city in Japan), Kawasaki, and Chiba, as well as rural mountain regions west...region: Tokyo, Kanagawa, Saitama, and Chiba World population rank 1 : 1 Percentage...
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Otani, Soji (1924-)
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology
...Parapsychology. He was born on December 8, 1924, in Chiba Prefecture, Honshu, Japan. He studied at the University...Education, Tokyo (1951-52), and a lecturer at Chiba University, Chiba-shi (1952-60). In 1960, Otani began his career...
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Choshi
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Choshi , city (1990 pop. 85,138), Chiba prefecture, central Honshu, Japan, on the Kashimada Sea at the mouth of the Tone River. It is a major center for deep-sea fishing and the major port of Chiba prefecture. Great quantities of soy are produced in Choshi.
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Abiko
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Abiko , city (1990 pop. 120,629), Chiba prefecture, central Honshu, Japan. It is an important railway junction, a resort town, and a residential suburb NE of Tokyo.
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Japan
Encyclopedia entry from: Cities of the World
...Yokohama, Ō saka, K ō be, Ky ō to, Nagoya, Hiroshima, Fukuoka, Sapporo, Nagasaki Other Cities: Chiba, Gifu, Hamamatsu, Himeji, Kagoshima, Kanazawa, Kawasaki, Kita-ky ū sh ū u, Kumagaya, Kumamoto...
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Eucommia Bark
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine
...uses. In the late 1990s Japanese researchers became interested in eucommia bark. In 2000, researchers at Nihon University in Chiba, Japan, published two studies showing that both the leaves and the bark of Eucommia ulmoides contained a compound that encourages...
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Ichihara
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Ichihara , city (1990 pop. 257,716), Chiba prefecture, central Honshu, Japan, on Tokyo Bay. Part of the Keihin Industrial Region, Ichihara has important petrochemical...
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Noda
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Noda , city (1990 pop. 114,475), Chiba prefecture, E central Honshu, Japan, on the Edo River. It is a commercial and industrial center known for its soy sauce factories.
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Narashino
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Narashino , city (1990 pop. 151,471), Chiba prefecture, E central Honshu, Japan, on Tokyo Bay. It is a newly developed suburb of Tokyo and has a large metals industry.
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