Chiba: Society and Culture
Includes sites that reflect the history, culture, and composition of the people of Chiba. Also includes the sites of local social-service resources and institutions that serve this prefecture. Examples includes sites for clubs, social-service organizations, disability resources, genealogy, history, personal pages, activism, politics, religion, and various sub-groups of the population.
Association of Foreign Wives of Japanese, Chiba Chapter
- Chiba Chapter of organization providing friendship and support for non-Japanese women married to Japanese menhttp://www.geocities.com/afwjchibachapter/
Chiba Makuhari Rotary Club
- Local chapter in Chiba, with statistics on membership and guide to activities.http://www.chiba-net.or.jp/~makuhari-rc/
Gunkanjima: UNESCO World Heritage site?- The Asahi Shimbun has reported that some want Nagasaki’s “Battleship island” to become a UNESCO World Heritage Site: The island has been included in a tentative list of candidates for designa
- Downright?neighborly
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- Electric Sunflower
- A former Japanese race car driver has designed a new kind of electric car, called the Electric Sunflower. Via, the United Nations University's new webzine Our World 2.0. The electric sunflowe
- Governors fight dam plan
- Governors fight dam plan Four prefectural chiefs band together against Daido River project WAKAYAMA (Kyodo) The governors of Osaka, Kyoto, Shiga and Mie demanded Tuesday that the central government
- And Then There Was One
- The collapse of the North American Big Three Automakers means that by the end of this collapse of capitalism there will be one left standing. And it won't be Ford, GM or Chrysler. It will be Toyo