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Kanagawa
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Kanagawa , prefecture (1990 pop. 7,980,421), E central Honshu, Japan. Yokohama is the...prefecture merges with Tokyo to the north. Flowers and dairy products are produced in Kanagawa, and fishing is an important industry.
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Tokyo
Encyclopedia entry from: Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of World Cities
...generally defined as the four prefectures of Tokyo, Saitaima, Kanagawa, and Chiba, while the city of Tokyo proper usually refers...comprised of the four prefectures of the Kanto region: Tokyo, Kanagawa, Saitama, and Chiba World population rank 1 : 1 Percentage...
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Fujisawa
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Fujisawa , city (1990 pop. 350,330), Kanagawa prefecture, central Honshu, Japan, on Sagami Bay. It is an industrial and residential suburb of Tokyo, known for the production...
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Chigasaki
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Chigasaki , city (1990 pop. 201,675), Kanagawa prefecture, central Honshu, Japan, on Sagami Bay. It is a fashionable resort with large electronics and chinaware industries.
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Perry, Matthew Calbraith
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea
...of which a quarter-size steam railway and a telegraph instrument made the greatest impression. On 31 March the Treaty of Kanagawa was signed. It opened Shimoda and Hakodate to the reciprocal return of shipwrecked seamen, and gave permission to set up...
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Hamada, Shoji
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...period of ever-increasing textile industrialization. Early Life Shoji Hamada was born on December 9, 1894 in Kawasaki (Kanagawa prefecture), Japan. Not much has been recorded regarding his father, Kyuzo Hamada, and his mother, Ai. Hamada found...
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Katsushika Hokusai
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...the genius of Hokusai at its very best. The most famous among the compositions are Fuji on a Clear Day and the Great Wave at Kanagawa, the former showing the red cone of Mt. Fuji, the sacred mountain of Japan, silhouetted against the white clouds and blue...
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Hiratsuka
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Hiratsuka , city (1990 pop. 245,950), Kanagawa prefecture, central Honshu, Japan, on Sagami Bay and the Sagami River. It is a commercial and industrial center with industries producing automobiles, rubber, chemicals, and machinery.
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Hadano
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Hadano , city (1990 pop. 155,619), Kanagawa prefecture, E central Honshu, Japan. An important communications center and agricultural market, the city is a center of tobacco trading. The production of computers, textiles, sake, and soy sauce are among its main industries.
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Kamakura
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Kamakura , city (1990 pop. 174,307), Kanagawa prefecture, central Honshu, Japan, on Sagami Bay and at the base of the Miura Peninsula. It is a resort and residential area...
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