Central Japan
Pliocene ostracods (Crustacea) from the Togakushi area, central Japan; palaeobiogeography of trans-Arctic taxa and Japan Sea endemic species
... area, central Japan, yield significant ostracods, which allow investigation of the origins of high-latitude (Arctic–Atlantic) taxa and the Japan Sea endemic species, together with their post-Miocene ...
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Estimate of the contraction rate of central Japan through the deformation of the Philippine Sea slab
... beneath central Japan, while there is much less deform- ation beneath western Japan, where the iso-depth contours are subparallel to the Nankai Trough (in this study, the boundary between ...
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Heterogeneous crustal deformation along the central northern Itoigawa Shizuoka Tectonic Line Fault system, Central Japan
... of the upper as well as lower crust along three survey lines across the central-northern ISTL fault system. Their results showed that sedimentary layers in the Matsumoto Basin and the heavily folded oceanic ...
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Crustal structure in the northwestern part of the Izu collision zone in central Japan
... The Izu-Bonin arc (IBA) has been colliding with the Honshu arc since the middle Miocene, which together form the active Izu arc-arc collision zone (ICZ) in central Japan. To understand the entire ...
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P wave velocity structure in the northern part of the central Japan Basin, Japan Sea with ocean bottom seismometers and airguns
... northeastern Japan Basin is interpreted to have been formed by sea floor spreading ...the central Japan Basin can be compared to that in the northeastern Japan Basin (Hirata et ...the ...
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Characteristic activity and migration of episodic tremor and slow slip events in central Japan
... of central Japan indicate signif- icant migration of episodic non-volcanic deep tremors and short-term slow-slip events on the subducting plate interface at the deeper extension of the mega-thrust ...
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Focal mechanisms and stress field in the Nobi fault area, central Japan
... in central Japan from 2009 to 2013 by the Research Group for the Joint Seismic Observations at the Nobi Area, which consists of Hokkaido University, Hirosaki University, Tohoku University, the University of ...
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An Information-Systems Approach to Identifying Flood Risks in Central Japan
... Abstract—This study explored using database environments to develop a tailor-made geospatial web-based system to identify flood risk. This approach can directly target specific needs and has advantages over existing ...
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Topographic effects on crustal stress around the Atera Fault, central Japan
... The Atera fault is a 66-km-long active fault trending in the NW–SE direction and located in eastern Gifu Pre- fecture, central Japan (Fig. 1). Systematic offsets of river channels of about 7–10 km across ...
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Resistivity characterisation of Hakone volcano, Central Japan, by three dimensional magnetotelluric inversion
... volcano, Central Japan, forming several vents in the Owakudani geothermal area on the northern slope of the central ...the central cones and the Owakudani geothermal area, and several buried ...
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Pests of the Endangered Herb Platycodon grandiflorus in Central Japan
... Strongylocoris leucocephalus (Linnaeus) (Hemiptera: Miridae) is widely distributed across Eurasia, North Africa, and northern Japan (Kerzhner and Josifov, 1999; Yasunaga et al., 2001; Konstantinov and Namyatova, ...
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Transient crustal deformation in Tokai region, central Japan, until May 2004
... Fig. 1. (a) Tectonic settings in and around Japan. Solid lines indicate plate boundaries. (b) Magnified map of rectangular area in (a). The Philippine sea plate subducts beneath the continental plate from the ...
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Susceptible conditions for debarking by deer in subalpine coniferous forests in central Japan
... In addition to size and species as factors for debarking, elevation zones and grassland area also were associated with the damage to subalpine forests by deer. Low sapling density and high risk of debarking of trees and ...
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Focal mechanisms and stress field in the Atotsugawa fault area, central Honshu, Japan
... High quality 151 focal mechanism solutions were deter- mined by using a P -wave first motion polarity data ob- served between January 2005 and December 2006 by a dense temporary seismic network in the Atotsugawa fault ...
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Nested Houses: Domestication dynamics of human–wasp relations in contemporary rural Japan
... contests in central Japan over this period: three in Na- gano, five in Gifu and seven in Aichi. CP attended two in Gifu (Kushihara, Higashi-shirakawa) and one in Na- gano (Ina). In 2014 there were 13 ...
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Prevalence and Antimicrobial Susceptibility Pattern of Streptococcus pneumoniae at General Hospital in the Central Region of Japan from December 2013 to February 2014
... A total of 153 Streptococcus pneumoniae were obtained from various clinical specimens at Daido Hospital from December 2013 to February 2014. Daido Hospital is a 404-bed private general hospital in the central ...
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Paleomagnetism of Miocene dikes in the Shitara basin and the tectonic evolution of central Honshu, Japan
... southwest Japan arc and the rest occurred after 12 Ma, probably related to the col- lision of the Izu-Ogasawara arc (Takahashi and Watanabe, ...southwest Japan arc strongly suggests the formation of the ...
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Relations with the Industrialised Countries. COM (80) 303 final, 29 May 1980
... EC and US bilateral trade with Japan Whi le no- one would argue that bi lateral trading balances should be the central preoccupation of either US-Japan or EC-Japan relations, they Loom v[r] ...
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Nineteen Cases of Buruli Ulcer Diagnosed in Japan from 1980 to 2010
... The etiology, clinical manifestations, and treatment of 19 sporadic cases of Buruli ulcer (BU) in Japan are described. The cases originated in different regions of Honshu Island, with no evidence of patient ...
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"The European Community and Japan: Bi(tri)lateral Trade in World Context"
... The simplest observations to be made relate to natural resources. Several of the successor states to the Soviet Union are rich in energy, and should increase their energy exports if economic reform succeeds in improving ...
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