(2002 est. pop. 7.1 million). Aichi Prefecture is situated in the central region of Japan's largest island, Honshu. A leading industrial area, it occupies an area of 5,139 square kilometers. Its primary geographical features are the Mikawa...

Aichi Prefecture (愛知県, Aichi-ken?) is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region. The capital is Nagoya. It is the focus of the Chūkyō Metropolitan...

Hirofumi Yamashita, an environmentalist in Japan, had been ignored for many years despite efforts to save the Isahaya Wetlands in a main migratory bird stopover in the country. Yamashita received the Goldman Prize and many environmentalists are receiving attention with the Liberal Democratic Party's...

THE 2005 World Exposition in Aichiken (prefecture), Japan (EXPO 2005 Aichi) will be held under the theme, "Nature's Wisdom." Last October, I was appointed commissioner general of the 2005 World Exposition in Aichi, Japan. In that capacity, my main task is to ensure...

During the twenty-year AIDS epidemic, almost twenty-two million people worldwide have died of the disease and an estimated 36 million are living with the HIV virus, which develops into AIDS. The first reported cases of HIV/AIDS in the early 1980s were...