Japan

Japan (Japanese: 日本, Nippon [ɲippoꜜɴ] (listen) or Nihon [ɲihoꜜɴ] (listen)) is an island country in East Asia, located in the northwest Pacific Ocean. It is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, and extends from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north toward the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south. Part of the Ring of Fire, Japan spans an archipelago of 6852 islands covering 377,975 square kilometers (145,937 sq mi); the five main islands are Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu, and Okinawa. Tokyo is Japan's capital and largest city; other major cities include Yokohama, Osaka, Nagoya, Sapporo, …

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DDN: Dundurn Press · 23 April 2024 English

that of Kanao Inouye. Born in Kamloops, B.C., in 1916, he had relocated to his ancestral homeland of Japan, and by 1942 was a translator for the Japanese army. He was assigned to the prisoner of war camp in

century. | LCSH: World War, 1939-1945—Atrocities—Japan. | LCSH: World War, 1939-1945—Atrocities—China—Hong Inouye was born in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, on October 16, 1883, and came to Canada in 1905 forestalled by a “gentleman’s agreement”4 whereby Japan voluntarily agreed to ban further immigration to agreement effectively curtailed emigration from Japan until 1905, when the pace again picked up and new 1907, he was able to induce Mikuma Asada to leave Japan and join him in the British Columbia Interior.


Higher Education Strategy Associates · 18 April 2024 English

HESA's Commentary of the 2024 Canadian Federal Budget

For instance, Japan’s Cabinet Office recently earmarked the equivalent of US$79 million for 2024 to strengthen AI research


PICES: North Pacific Marine Science Organization · 17 April 2024 English

All names and claims expressed in this book of abstracts are solely those of the authors and do not represent those of the PICES Organization, nor those of their affiliated …

Socio-Ecological Systems Symposium June 3-7, 2024, Yokohama, Japan https://meetings.pices.int/meetings/international/2024/MSEAS/scope Nakamura Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan. E-mail: suarez.j.ab@m.titech.ac.jp Coral reef ecosystems sustain local populations. Many herring stocks in Japan, British Columbia (Canada), and the continental S02-17547-Oral-Blandon (ECOP) Seafood sustainability values in Japan and Sweden 1 2 3 4 Abigayil Blandon , Malin Jonell Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Chiba, Japan. 4 University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK. Sustainability


CIGI: Centre for International Governance Innovation · 16 April 2024 English

A field with its roots established in the 1950s, artificial intelligence (AI) is suddenly much more in the public eye and capable of doing useful things for casual users as …

) and Canada could do so by more than 0.35 p.p. Japan would add roughly 0.33 p.p. and leading AI (see that the co-convenors of the talks (Australia, Japan four major aspects: pre-training, adaptation and the CPTPP are Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, E-Commerce at the WTO. See www.wto.org/english/tratop_e/ecom_e/ Technologies United States Technology Hardware Sony Japan Leisure Goods & Equipment Duolingo United States Telecommunications 1 Israel 2 Software & Computer Services 34 Japan 1 Support Services 2 South Korea 1 Technology Hardware


APF: Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada · 16 April 2024 English

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by China. The most recent incident the U.S. and Japan in Washington, D.C., on April 11. took place just maritime Jr.’s desire to partner with the U.S. and Japan marks co-ordination. Aside from security matters https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/us-japan-philippines-trilateral-deal-change-dynamic-sout /11/joint-vision-statement-from-the-leaders-of-japan-the-philippines-and-the-united-states/ https://www /11/joint-vision-statement-from-the-leaders-of-japan-the-philippines-and-the-united-states/ https://apnews


Fraser Institute · 11 April 2024 English

Growth in Canada’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) has been one of the indicators of the country’s economic performance most frequently cited by journalists, analysts, and politicians. This Research Bulletin shows …

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Fraser Institute · 9 April 2024 English

Between 2009 and 2023, federal and provincial governments have increased personal income taxes on upper-income earners by raising the top marginal income tax rate. The largest combined (federal and provincial) …

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UMP: University of Manitoba Press · 5 April 2024 English

Mixing recipes, maps, archival records, biographies, and full-colour photographs with fascinating stories, mmm... Manitoba showcases the province’s diverse foodways and industries from on board the Manitoba Food History Truck.

feeding casino guests. When a high roller from Japan came to gamble at Caesars Palace, Hart would contact25 Number One that person’s favourite restaurant in Japan and then hire its chef to come and cook for the described the process: If you bring a fellow in from Japan and he eats certain types of food that we do not find out from him where that Japanese fellow in Japan likes to eat. What is his favourite restaurant In 1964, Hart was invited by the Government of Japan to design the restaurant and menu for the Japanese


CMA: Canadian Medical Association · 4 April 2024 English

Burton line and basophilic stippling in lead poisoning Practice | Clinical images CPD Burton line and basophilic stippling in lead poisoning Takahide Morita MD, Toshinori Nishizawa MD, Toru Morikawa MD …

as a self-employed plumber in Nara Pre- fecture, Japan, for about 30 years pres- ented to the emergency include City Hospital, Higashikideracho, Nara, Japan; Department of General abdominal pain, constipation irritability, drowsiness, convulsions, Tokyo, Japan. and coma), sometimes making diagnosis difficult


CIHI: Canadian Institute for Health Information · 28 March 2024 English

This report summarizes information about prescription drug data in Canada (assets, needs, gaps, limitations and opportunities) by jurisdiction.

significant barriers to access.12 The United States, Japan, Australia, the European Union and the United Kingdom


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