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Beilu Bangzi
The was located in the northwestern part of Honshu, the main island of Japan. It lay along the Sea of Japan within the Chūbu region, which it is currently a part of. It is almost equivalent to Koshi Province and Hokurikudō area in pre-modern Japan. Since the Heian period until the Edo period the region was a core recipient of population, the population grew to be much larger proportionately than it is today, despite the rural character. With the growth of urban centers in the 20th century, particularly Tokyo and Chūkyō, the Hokuriku has steadily declined in importance to become relative backwaters. The region is also known for traditional culture that originated from elsewhere that has been long lost along the Taiheiyō Belt. The Hokuriku region includes the four prefectures of Ishikawa, Fukui, Niigata and Toyama, although Niigata is sometimes included in one of the following regions: * : includes Niigata and Nagano prefectures * : includes Niigata, Nagano and Yamanash ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hokuriku Subregion
Hokuriku may refer to: * Hokuriku (train), ''Hokuriku'' (train), a sleeping car train in Japan * Hokuriku Shinkansen, a high-speed railway line connecting Tokyo with Kanazawa * The Hokuriku region in Japan * ALO's Hokuriku, a Japanese football club based in Toyama, Japan {{Disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kōshin'etsu Region
is a subregion of the Chūbu region in Japan consisting of Yamanashi, Nagano, and Niigata prefectures. The name Kōshin'etsu is a composite formed from the names of old provinces which are adjacent to each other — Kai (now Yamanashi), Shinano (now Nagano) and Echigo (now Niigata). The region is surrounded by the Sea of Japan to its north west, Hokuriku region to its west, Tōkai region to its south west, Kantō region to its south east, and Tōhoku region to its north east. The name for this geographic area is usually combined with Kantō region (as in "Kantō-Kōshin'etsu""Abstracts from the 25th Kanto-Koshinetsu regional meeting of the Japanese Society of Nuclear Medicine" (JSNM), ''Japanese Journal of Nuclear Medicine'' (Jpn J Nucl Med) 23(10):1503-1511, October 1986.); and it is sometimes combined with Hokuriku region (as in "Kantō-Kōshin'etsu-Hokuriku" or "Hokuriku-Kōshin'etsu"). Corporate usage * Nippon Telegraph & Telephone directories categorize phone numbe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Siberia (continent)
Siberia, also known as Angaraland (or simply Angara) and Angarida, is an ancient craton in the heart of Siberia. Today forming the Central Siberian Plateau, it was an independent continent before the Permian period. The Verkhoyansk Sea, a passive continental margin, was fringing the Siberian Craton to the east in what is now the East Siberian Lowland. Angaraland was named in the 1880s by Austrian geologist Eduard Suess who erroneously believed that in the Paleozoic there were two large continents in the Northern Hemisphere: "Atlantis", North America connected to Europe by a peninsula (=Greenland and Iceland); and "Angara-land", eastern Asia, named after the Angara River in Siberia. Precambrian history About 2.5 billion years ago (Siderian), Siberia was part of a continent called Arctica, along with the Canadian Shield. Around 1.1 billion years ago (Stenian), Siberia became part of the supercontinent of Rodinia, a state of affairs which lasted until the Cryogenian about 750 mill ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Koshihikari
is a popular cultivar of Japonica rice cultivated in Japan as well as Australia and the United States. ''Koshihikari'' was first created in 1956 by combining 2 different strains of ''Nourin No.1'' and ''Nourin No.22'' at the Fukui Prefectural Agricultural Research Facility. It is one of the most highly grown varieties of rice in Japan and is exported to other countries as a premium product. Etymology The character for is used to represent the old Koshi Province, which stretched from present-day Fukui to Yamagata. ''Koshihikari'' can be translated as "the light of Koshi". Related varieties Other rice varieties close to its strains, such as Akitakomachi, Hitomebore, and Hinohikari were subsequently created by cross-breeding ''Koshihikari'' with other Japanese varieties of rice. Characteristics *Highly susceptible to blast disease *Its stem collapses easily when mature See also * Japanese rice Japanese rice refers to a number of short-grain cultivars of Japoni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
