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Iwaki River

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The is a river that crosses western Aomori Prefecture, Japan. [1]

76 relations: Ainu people, Ajigasawa, Aomori, Akita clan, Akita Prefecture, Aomori Prefecture, Apple, Asian house martin, Ayu, Ōu Main Line, Beetle, Black kite, Buteo, Caesium-137, Castle town, Clam, Dytiscidae, Edo, Edo period, Fagus crenata, Fujisaki, Aomori, Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, Goshogawara, Aomori, Habitat destruction, Heian period, Hiraizumi, Iwate, Hirosaki, Hirosaki Castle, Hirosaki Domain, Irrigation, Isotopes of caesium, Itayanagi, Aomori, Iwate Prefecture, Japan, Japanese castle, Japanese cuisine, Japanese reed bunting, Jōmon period, Kamakura shogunate, Kantō region, Kingfisher, Least weasel, Marsh grassbird, Meiji Restoration, Midden, Minamoto no Yoritomo, Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, Mount Iwaki, Mutsu Province, Nanbu clan, ..., Northern Fujiwara, Northern goshawk, Oirase River, Old-growth forest, Paddy field, Phragmites, Pier, Radioactive decay, Ranch, Reed bed, Rice, Riverboat, Sea of Japan, Sengoku period, Shirakami-Sanchi, Sparganium erectum, Spawn (biology), Tōhoku region, Tokugawa shogunate, Towada-Hachimantai National Park, Tsugaru Peninsula, Tsugaru Quasi-National Park, Tsunami, UNESCO, Willow, World Heritage site. Expand index (26 more) »

Ainu people

The Ainu or the Aynu (Ainu アィヌ ''Aynu''; Japanese: アイヌ Ainu; Russian: Айны Ajny), in the historical Japanese texts the Ezo (蝦夷), are an indigenous people of Japan (Hokkaido, and formerly northeastern Honshu) and Russia (Sakhalin, the Kuril Islands, and formerly the Kamchatka Peninsula).

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Ajigasawa, Aomori

is a town located in Aomori Prefecture, Japan.

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Akita clan

For the feudal domain also known as Akita, see Kubota Domain The was a Japanese samurai clan of northern Honshū that claimed descent from Abe no Sadato of the Abe clan.

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Akita Prefecture

is a prefecture located in the Tōhoku region of Japan.

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Aomori Prefecture

is a prefecture of Japan located in the Tōhoku region.

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Apple

An apple is a sweet, edible fruit produced by an apple tree (Malus pumila).

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Asian house martin

The Asian house martin (Delichon dasypus) is a migratory passerine bird of the swallow family Hirundinidae.

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Ayu

The or sweetfish, Plecoglossus altivelis, is a species of fish.

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Ōu Main Line

The is a railway line in Japan, operated by the East Japan Railway Company (JR East).

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Beetle

Beetles are a group of insects that form the order Coleoptera, in the superorder Endopterygota.

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Black kite

The black kite (Milvus migrans) is a medium-sized bird of prey in the family Accipitridae, which also includes many other diurnal raptors.

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Buteo

Buteo is a genus of medium to fairly large, wide-ranging raptors with a robust body and broad wings.

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Caesium-137

Caesium-137 (Cs-137), cesium-137, or radiocaesium, is a radioactive isotope of caesium which is formed as one of the more common fission products by the nuclear fission of uranium-235 and other fissionable isotopes in nuclear reactors and nuclear weapons.

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Castle town

A castle town is a settlement built adjacent to or surrounding a castle.

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Clam

Clam is a common name for several kinds of bivalve molluscs.

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Dytiscidae

The Dytiscidae – based on the Greek dytikos (δυτικός), "able to dive" – are the predaceous diving beetles, a family of water beetles.

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Edo

, also romanized as Jedo, Yedo or Yeddo, is the former name of Tokyo.

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Edo period

The or is the period between 1603 and 1868 in the history of Japan, when Japanese society was under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate and the country's 300 regional daimyō.

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Fagus crenata

Fagus crenata, known as the Japanese beech, Siebold's beech, or buna, is a deciduous tree of the beech genus, Fagus, of the family Fagaceae.

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Fujisaki, Aomori

is a town in Aomori Prefecture, Japan.

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Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster

The was an energy accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Ōkuma, Fukushima Prefecture, initiated primarily by the tsunami following the Tōhoku earthquake on 11 March 2011.

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Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant

The is a disabled nuclear power plant located on a site in the towns of Ōkuma and Futaba in the Fukushima Prefecture, Japan.

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Goshogawara, Aomori

is a city located in Aomori Prefecture, Japan.

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Habitat destruction

Habitat destruction is the process in which natural habitat is rendered unable to support the species present.

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Heian period

The is the last division of classical Japanese history, running from 794 to 1185.

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Hiraizumi, Iwate

is a town located in Nishiiwai District, Iwate Prefecture, Japan.

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Hirosaki

is a city located in western Aomori Prefecture, Japan.

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Hirosaki Castle

is a hirayama-style Japanese castle constructed in 1611.

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Hirosaki Domain

Hirosaki Castle, the seat of the Hirosaki Domain, also known as, was a tozama feudal domain of Edo period JapanRavina, Mark.

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Irrigation

Irrigation is the application of controlled amounts of water to plants at needed intervals.

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Isotopes of caesium

Caesium (55Cs; or cesium) has 40 known isotopes, making it, along with barium and mercury, the element with the most isotopes.

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Itayanagi, Aomori

is a town located in Aomori Prefecture, Japan.

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Iwate Prefecture

is a prefecture in the Tōhoku region of Japan.

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Japan

Japan (日本; Nippon or Nihon; formally 日本国 or Nihon-koku, lit. "State of Japan") is a sovereign island country in East Asia.

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Japanese castle

were fortresses constructed primarily of wood and stone.

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Japanese cuisine

Japanese cuisine encompasses the regional and traditional foods of Japan, which have developed through centuries of social and economic changes.

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Japanese reed bunting

The Japanese reed bunting or ochre-rumped bunting (Emberiza yessoensis) is a species of bird in the Emberizidae family.

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Jōmon period

The is the time in Japanese prehistory, traditionally dated between 14,000–300 BCE, recently refined to about 1000 BCE, during which Japan was inhabited by a hunter-gatherer culture, which reached a considerable degree of sedentism and cultural complexity.

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Kamakura shogunate

The Kamakura shogunate (Japanese: 鎌倉幕府, Kamakura bakufu) was a Japanese feudal military governmentNussbaum, Louis-Frédéric.

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Kantō region

The is a geographical area of Honshu, the largest island of Japan.

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Kingfisher

Kingfishers or Alcedinidae are a family of small to medium-sized, brightly colored birds in the order Coraciiformes.

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Least weasel

The least weasel (Mustela nivalis), or simply weasel in the UK and much of the world, is the smallest member of the genus Mustela, family Mustelidae and order Carnivora.

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Marsh grassbird

The marsh grassbird (Locustella pryeri), also known as the Japanese swamp warbler, is a species of Old World warbler in the family Locustellidae.

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Meiji Restoration

The, also known as the Meiji Ishin, Renovation, Revolution, Reform, or Renewal, was an event that restored practical imperial rule to the Empire of Japan in 1868 under Emperor Meiji.

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Midden

A midden (also kitchen midden or shell heap) is an old dump for domestic waste which may consist of animal bone, human excrement, botanical material, mollusc shells, sherds, lithics (especially debitage), and other artifacts and ecofacts associated with past human occupation.

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Minamoto no Yoritomo

was the founder and the first shōgun of the Kamakura Shogunate of Japan.

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Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism

The, abbreviated MLIT, is a ministry of the Japanese government.

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Mount Iwaki

is a stratovolcano located in western Aomori Prefecture, Tohoku, Japan.

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Mutsu Province

was an old province of Japan in the area of Fukushima, Miyagi, Iwate and Aomori Prefectures and the municipalities of Kazuno and Kosaka in Akita Prefecture.

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Nanbu clan

The was a Japanese samurai clan who ruled most of northeastern Honshū in the Tōhoku region of Japan for over 700 years, from the Kamakura period through the Meiji Restoration of 1868.

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Northern Fujiwara

The Northern Fujiwara (奥州藤原氏 Ōshū Fujiwara-shi) were a Japanese noble family that ruled the Tōhoku region (the northeast of Honshū) of Japan during the 12th century as their own realm.

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Northern goshawk

The northern goshawk (Accipiter gentilis) is a medium-large raptor in the family Accipitridae, which also includes other extant diurnal raptors, such as eagles, buzzards and harriers.

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Oirase River

The is a river located in eastern Aomori prefecture, in the Tōhoku region of northern Japan.

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Old-growth forest

An old-growth forest — also termed primary forest, virgin forest, primeval forest, or late seral forest— is a forest that has attained great age without significant disturbance and thereby exhibits unique ecological features and might be classified as a climax community.

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Paddy field

A paddy field is a flooded parcel of arable land used for growing semiaquatic rice.

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Phragmites

Phragmites is a genus of four species of large perennial grasses found in wetlands throughout temperate and tropical regions of the world.

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Pier

Seaside pleasure pier in Brighton, England. The first seaside piers were built in England in the early 19th century. A pier is a raised structure in a body of water, typically supported by well-spaced piles or pillars.

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Radioactive decay

Radioactive decay (also known as nuclear decay or radioactivity) is the process by which an unstable atomic nucleus loses energy (in terms of mass in its rest frame) by emitting radiation, such as an alpha particle, beta particle with neutrino or only a neutrino in the case of electron capture, gamma ray, or electron in the case of internal conversion.

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Ranch

A ranch is an area of land, including various structures, given primarily to the practice of ranching, the practice of raising grazing livestock such as cattle or sheep for meat or wool.

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Reed bed

Reed beds are natural habitats found in floodplains, waterlogged depressions, and estuaries.

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Rice

Rice is the seed of the grass species Oryza sativa (Asian rice) or Oryza glaberrima (African rice).

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Riverboat

A riverboat is a watercraft designed for inland navigation on lakes, rivers, and artificial waterways.

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Sea of Japan

The Sea of Japan (see below for other names) is a marginal sea between the Japanese archipelago, Sakhalin, the Korean Peninsula and Russia.

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Sengoku period

The is a period in Japanese history marked by social upheaval, political intrigue and near-constant military conflict.

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Shirakami-Sanchi

Shirakami Mountains Relief Map (with UNESCO World Heritage Site) is a UNESCO World Heritage Site in the Tōhoku region of northern Honshū, Japan.

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Sparganium erectum

Sparganium erectum, the simplestem bur-reed or branched bur-reed, is a perennial plant species in the genus Sparganium.

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Spawn (biology)

Spawn is the eggs and sperm released or deposited into water by aquatic animals.

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Tōhoku region

The, Northeast region, or Northeast Japan consists of the northeastern portion of Honshu, the largest island of Japan.

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Tokugawa shogunate

The Tokugawa shogunate, also known as the and the, was the last feudal Japanese military government, which existed between 1600 and 1868.

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Towada-Hachimantai National Park

is a national park comprising two separate areas of Aomori, Iwate, and Akita Prefectures, Japan.

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Tsugaru Peninsula

The is a peninsula in Aomori Prefecture, at the northern end of Honshū island, Japan.

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Tsugaru Quasi-National Park

is a quasi-national park in Aomori Prefecture in the far northern Tōhoku region of Honshū in Japan.

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Tsunami

A tsunami (from 津波, "harbour wave"; English pronunciation) or tidal wave, also known as a seismic sea wave, is a series of waves in a water body caused by the displacement of a large volume of water, generally in an ocean or a large lake.

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UNESCO

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO; Organisation des Nations unies pour l'éducation, la science et la culture) is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) based in Paris.

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Willow

Willows, also called sallows, and osiers, form the genus Salix, around 400 speciesMabberley, D.J. 1997.

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World Heritage site

A World Heritage site is a landmark or area which is selected by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) as having cultural, historical, scientific or other form of significance, and is legally protected by international treaties.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iwaki_River

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