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Francis Xavier, St
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Francis Xavier, St (1506–52). Spanish
Roman Catholic (
Jesuit) priest and missionary to Asia, canonized, 1622: feast day 3 Dec. Xavier was won over by his Basque fellow countryman,
Ignatius Loyola, to become one of the original band of the Society of Jesus (he was one of those who took vows with him at Montmartre in 1534). Xavier committed himself to obey the pope's command to serve in the already vast and growing overseas colonies of Portugal and sailed for India on 7 Apr. 1541, arriving in Goa a year later.
Xavier's commission from both the king of Portugal and the pope extended to the whole of Asia, and he spent some months of 1546 and 1547 in what is now Indonesia. His primary goal, however, was Japan, and with a Japanese convert and a small band of co-workers landed on Kagoshima on 15 Aug. 1549. Xavier remained in Japan only two years and three months, leaving about 2,000 Christians to the ministrations of fellow Jesuits, after which he returned to Goa and then came back to die on an island near the coast of China on 3 Dec. 1552. His body was taken to Goa, where it is still venerated.
Among Xavier's greatest contributions to the mission to Japan was his deep and growing respect for the Japanese as persons and as bearers of a high culture which could be the foundation of Christian life.
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KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY STUDENTS, FACULTY VISIT UNIVERSITY OF WEST GEORGIA
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 9/22/2008; 681 words
; ...news release: Faculty and students from Kagoshima University will spend five days with...student exchange with West Georgia and Kagoshima University, which is located in Japan...academic relationship between UWG and Kagoshima began several years ago when a former...
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Japan Newspaper Publisher Kagoshima Shinpo Files for Voluntary Bankruptcy.
Newspaper article from: Kyodo News International (Tokyo, Japan); 5/5/2004; 453 words
; May 5--KAGOSHIMA, Japan -- Kagoshima Shinposha, publisher of the Kagoshima Shinpo newspaper, said Wednesday it has filed for bankruptcy with the Kagoshima District Court. The company went under with liabilities totaling 2.2 billion yen...
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NEC: NEC begins color PDP production at Kagoshima plant.
M2 Presswire; 12/11/1998; 700+ words
; ...NEC begins color PDP production at Kagoshima plant (C)1994-98 M2 COMMUNICATIONS...PDP) products at a new line in its NEC Kagoshima plant in southern Japan. The new two...commencement of volume production at NEC Kagoshima, the Color PDP Business Promotion Division...
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Studies from Kagoshima University add new findings in the area of crustacean biology.
Newspaper article from: China Weekly News; 1/6/2009; 700+ words
; ...Korea. China, and Taiwan," scientists in Kagoshima, Japan report. "In Kagoshima Bay, southern Japan. this species is one of...maturity, and spawning season was investigated in Kagoshima Bay. A total of 5,681 female specimens were...
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Li Peng Feted in Kagoshima
News Wire article from: Xinhua News Agency; 4/8/2002; 408 words
; ...hosted in his honor here Monday evening by Kagoshima Prefecture Governor Tatsuro Suga, Li...relationship for the generations to come." Kagoshima Prefecture is not far from China and...recourses and he wishes the people of Kagoshima to build a beautiful homeland in the...
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Studies from Kagoshima University add new findings in the area of obesity and diabetes.
Newspaper article from: Obesity & Diabetes Week; 10/6/2008; 700+ words
; According to a study from Kagoshima, Japan, "Obestatin is a recently...wrote T. Nakahara and colleagues, Kagoshima University (see also Obesity and...information, contact T. Nakahara, Kagoshima University, Graduate School of Medicine...
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Kagoshima University reports research in cancer.(Report)
Newspaper article from: Cancer Weekly; 3/3/2009; 700+ words
; ...colon cancer cell lines," scientists in Kagoshima, Japan report (see also Cancer...wrote N. Yamada and colleagues, Kagoshima University. The researchers concluded...information, contact S. Yonezawa, Kagoshima University, Graduate School of Medicine...
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Kagoshima University details research in hepatocellular cancer.
Newspaper article from: Cancer Weekly; 9/29/2009; 700+ words
; According to recent research from Kagoshima, Japan, "Surgery remains difficult...wrote M. Sakoda and colleagues, Kagoshima University (see also Hepatocellular...additional information, contact S. Ueno, Kagoshima University, School of Medicine &...
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Kagoshima University Selects Blue Coat for Wan Optimization to Extend Internet Access to Iojima Island.
PR Newswire; 5/1/2007; 700+ words
; ...application delivery, today announced that Kagoshima University, through its Computing and...Computing and Communications Center of Kagoshima University with expert support from Fujitsu Kagoshima Infonet Limited and NTT West. It was also...
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Research findings from Kagoshima University update understanding of methotrexate.(Report)
Newspaper article from: Cancer Weekly; 5/5/2009; 700+ words
; ...HDMTX chemotherapy," investigators in Kagoshima, Japan report (see also Methotrexate...wrote Y. Shibayama and colleagues, Kagoshima University. The researchers concluded...additional information, contact Y. Takeda, Kagoshima University, Kagoshima University Med...
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Kagoshima
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Kagoshima , city (1990 pop. 536,752), capital of Kagoshima prefecture, extreme S Kyushu, Japan, on Satsuma Peninsula and Kagoshima Bay. An important port, it has a navy yard. The city's industries produce Satsuma porcelain ware, textiles...
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Sakurajima
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Sakurajima , peninsula, Kagoshima prefecture, S Kyushu, Japan, in Kagoshima Bay opposite Kagoshima. Formerly an island, Sakurajima became a peninsula in 1914 when lava from three volcanic cones closed the channel (Mt. Sakurajima is one of...
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Satsuma
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Satsuma , peninsula, Kagoshima prefecture, SW Kyushu, Japan. It gives its name to a famous...Satsuma into one of the most advanced areas in 19th-century Japan. Kagoshima, the capital of Satsuma, was a center of Western influence in...
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Kyocera Corporation
Book article from: International Directory of Company Histories
...laboratories throughout the product development process. The Kagoshima Central Research Laboratory was opened in 1979 to engage in...and current chairman, Kazuo Inamori. Upon graduation from Kagoshima University, where he studied applied chemistry, Inamori...
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Hamada, Hiroshi 1933–
Book article from: International Directory of Business Biographies
...Company Nationality: Japanese. Born: April 28, 1933, in Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan. Education: Tokyo University, 1957...OPERATIONS AND PRODUCT LINE Hamada was born in April 1933 in Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan. He graduated from the prestigious Tokyo...
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