52 relations: Asahi Shimbun, Associated Press, Blue rock thrush, Broome, Western Australia, Crinum asiaticum, Dolphin, Dolphin drive hunting, Edo period, Eitaro Ishigaki, Faroe Islands, Hakuba, Nagano, Hiezu, Tottori, Higashimuro District, Wakayama, Hiromitsu Ochiai, International Whaling Commission, Japan, Jūrō Oka, Kansai region, Kōban, Kisei Main Line, Kiwako Taichi, Klaksvík, Kozagawa, Wakayama, Kyodo News, List of towns in Japan, Maki-e, Melon-headed whale, Mercury (element), Methylmercury, Minamata disease, Minke whale, Nachikatsuura, Nantucket sleighride, National highways of Japan, Nippon Professional Baseball, Onsen, Pacific Ocean, Pilot whale, Population, Population density, Prefectural road, Russo-Japanese War, Taiji dolphin drive hunt, Taiji Station, Tetradium, The Cove (film), The Japan Times, Triple Crown (baseball), Wakayama Prefecture, West Japan Railway Company, ..., Whale meat, Yomiuri Shimbun. Expand index (2 more) »
Asahi Shimbun
The is one of the five national newspapers in Japan.
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Associated Press
The Associated Press (AP) is a U.S.-based not-for-profit news agency headquartered in New York City.
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Blue rock thrush
The blue rock thrush (Monticola solitarius) is a species of chat.
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Broome, Western Australia
Broome is a coastal, pearling and tourist town in the Kimberley region of Western Australia, north of Perth.
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Crinum asiaticum
Crinum asiaticum (poison bulb, giant crinum lily, grand crinum lily, spider lily) is a plant species widely planted in many warmer regions as an ornamental.
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Dolphin
Dolphins are a widely distributed and diverse group of aquatic mammals.
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Dolphin drive hunting
Dolphin drive hunting, also called dolphin drive fishing, is a method of hunting dolphins and occasionally other small cetaceans by driving them together with boats and then usually into a bay or onto a beach.
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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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Eitaro Ishigaki
was an American artist.
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Faroe Islands
The Faroe Islands (Føroyar; Færøerne), sometimes called the Faeroe Islands, is an archipelago between the Norwegian Sea and the North Atlantic, about halfway between Norway and Iceland, north-northwest of Scotland.
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Hakuba, Nagano
is a village located in Nagano Prefecture, Japan.
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Hiezu, Tottori
is a village located in Saihaku District, Tottori Prefecture, Japan.
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Higashimuro District, Wakayama
is a district located in Wakayama Prefecture, Japan.
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Hiromitsu Ochiai
Hiromitsu Ochiai (落合 博満 Ochiai Hiromitsu, born December 9, 1953) is a former Japanese professional baseball player.
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International Whaling Commission
The International Whaling Commission (IWC) is an international body set up by the terms of the International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling (ICRW), which was signed in Washington, D.C., United States, on December 2, 1946 to "provide for the proper conservation of whale stocks and thus make possible the orderly development of the whaling industry".
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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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Jūrō Oka
Jūrō Oka (岡 十郎 Oka Jūrō, 27 July 1870 – 8 January 1923) was a Japanese businessman considered the "father of Japanese whaling".
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Kansai region
The or the lies in the southern-central region of Japan's main island Honshū.
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Kōban
A is a small neighborhood police station found in Japan.
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Kisei Main Line
| The is a railway line that parallels the coastline of the Kii Peninsula in Japan between Mie Prefecture and Wakayama Prefecture.
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Kiwako Taichi
was a Japanese film actress.
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Klaksvík
Klaksvík is the second largest town of the Faroe Islands.
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Kozagawa, Wakayama
is a town located in Higashimuro District, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan.
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Kyodo News
is a nonprofit cooperative news agency based in Minato, Tokyo.
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List of towns in Japan
A town (町; chō or machi) is a local administrative unit in Japan.
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Maki-e
is Japanese lacquer sprinkled with gold or silver powder as a decoration using a makizutsu or a kebo brush.
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Melon-headed whale
The melon-headed whale or melon-headed dolphin (species Peponocephala electra; other names are many-toothed blackfish, "melon whale" and electra dolphin) is a cetacean of the oceanic dolphin family (Delphinidae).
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Mercury (element)
Mercury is a chemical element with symbol Hg and atomic number 80.
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Methylmercury
Methylmercury (sometimes methyl mercury) is an organometallic cation with the formula.
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Minamata disease
, sometimes referred to as, is a neurological syndrome caused by severe mercury poisoning.
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Minke whale
The minke whale, or lesser rorqual, is a type of baleen whale.
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Nachikatsuura
is a town located in Higashimuro District, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan.
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Nantucket sleighride
A Nantucket sleighride was a term used by Nantucket whalers to describe what occurs immediately following the harpooning of a whale.
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National highways of Japan
Japan has a nationwide system of distinct from the expressways.
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Nippon Professional Baseball
or NPB is the highest level of baseball in Japan.
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Onsen
An onsen is a Japanese hot spring; the term also extends to cover the bathing facilities and traditional inns frequently situated around a spring.
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Pacific Ocean
The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's oceanic divisions.
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Pilot whale
Pilot whales are cetaceans belonging to the genus Globicephala.
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Population
In biology, a population is all the organisms of the same group or species, which live in a particular geographical area, and have the capability of interbreeding.
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Population density
Population density (in agriculture: standing stock and standing crop) is a measurement of population per unit area or unit volume; it is a quantity of type number density.
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Prefectural road
in Japan are roads usually planned, numbered and maintained by the government of the respective prefecture (-to, -dō, -fu or -ken), independent of other prefectures – as opposed to national roads (kokudō), which in legal terms include national expressways (kōsoku jidōsha kokudō), and municipal roads (shichōsondō).
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Russo-Japanese War
The Russo–Japanese War (Russko-yaponskaya voina; Nichirosensō; 1904–05) was fought between the Russian Empire and the Empire of Japan over rival imperial ambitions in Manchuria and Korea.
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Taiji dolphin drive hunt
The Taiji dolphin drive hunt captures small cetaceans for their meat and, latterly, for sale to dolphinariums.
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Taiji Station
is a railway station in Taiji, Higashimuro District, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan.
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Tetradium
Tetradium is a genus of nine species of trees in the family Rutaceae, occurring in temperate to tropical east Asia.
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The Cove (film)
The Cove is a 2009 documentary film directed by Louie Psihoyos which analyzes and questions dolphin hunting practices in Japan.
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The Japan Times
The Japan Times is Japan's largest and oldest English-language daily newspaper.
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Triple Crown (baseball)
In baseball, a player earns the Triple Crown when he leads a league in three specific statistical categories in the same season.
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Wakayama Prefecture
is a prefecture of Japan on the Kii Peninsula in the Kansai region on Honshū island.
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West Japan Railway Company
, also referred to as, is one of the Japan Railways Group (JR Group) companies and operates in western Honshu.
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Whale meat
Whale meat, broadly speaking, may include all cetaceans (whales, dolphions, porpoises) and all parts of the animal: muscle (meat), organs (offal), and fat (blubber).
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Yomiuri Shimbun
The is a Japanese newspaper published in Tokyo, Osaka, Fukuoka, and other major Japanese cities.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiji,_Wakayama