(2000 est. pop. 5.9 million). Chiba Prefecture is situated in the central region of Japan's island of Honshu. A residential and industrial satellite of Tokyo, Chiba occupies an area of 5,150 square kilometers, with its population mostly...

Chiba Prefecture (千葉県, Chiba-ken?) is a prefecture of Japan located in the Greater Tokyo Area of Honshū Island. Its capital is Chiba...

ABSTRACT Landings of abalone (H. discus, H. gigantea, and H. madaka) in Chiba Prefecture, Japan exceeded 700 t in 1966 and fluctuated between 600-800 t until 1978. The landings started to decline in 1979 and reduced to less than 100 t in 1997....

Harvard University has honored Atsuko Chiba, the late Japanese columnist, with a Nieman Fellowship in her name. Chiba, who was a Nieman Fellow in 1968, died of cancer in New York in 1987. She spent the last four years of her life writing a...