Hokkaido: Society and Culture
This category is for sites on society and culture of Hokkaido Prefecture, Japan.
- Sapporo 札幌
Ebetsu Citizens International Exchange Association (ECIEA)
- Organisation created to increase contact and understanding between residents and non-Japanese visitors through distribution of news and information, homestays, language services, and social events.http://www.webone.ne.jp/~eciea/index-e.html
Ebetsu International Center
- Consists of groups related to international exchange for interaction between non-Japanese and the citizens of Ebetsu Cityhttp://www.ebetsu-iec.org/
Kutchian Rotary Club
- Regional chapter of the Rotary Club based in Kutchian City, Hokkaido.http://www.hirafu.com/rotary/
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
- Posted by ampontan on Friday, November 14, 2008 WHILE POLITICIANS on both sides of the Sea of Japan continue to troll for votes by creating hobgoblins that arouse the sort of people who like to argue
- 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