Iwate
(2002 est. pop. 1.4 million). Iwate Prefecture is situated in the northern region of Japan's island of Honshu. Once on the untamed frontier, in the early 2000s it remains a bastion of ear...
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Voters in Kumamoto and Iwate prefectures are casting their
ballots for lower-house by-elections held in these electoral
districts as well as for the upper-house election held nationwide on
S...
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Campaigning started Tuesday for two lower house by-elections in
electoral districts in Kumamoto and Iwate prefectures which will be
held simultaneously with the House of Councillors election ...
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(EDS: UPDATING WITH FINAL RESULTS, COMBINING EARLIER STORIES ON
INDIVIDUAL WINNERS IN IWATE, KUMAMOTO)
An independent candidate affiliated with the dominant Liberal
Democratic Party and a ca...
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(EDS: UPDATING WITH PROJECTED RESULTS)
An independent candidate affiliated with the dominant Liberal
Democratic Party and a candidate fielded by the opposition Democratic
Party of Japan are ...
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(EDS: UPDATING INFO)
A heat wave continued to bake Japan on Monday due to a
high-pressure system in the Pacific Ocean, with the mercury rising to
37.5 C in the village of Kawai, Iwate Prefec...
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Former farm minister Tokuichiro Tamazawa's election office
accepted a 500,000 yen donation from a winner of state-financed
public works contracts just before the 2005 general election in a
s...
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(EDS: UPDATING)
Police are searching for two people apparently washed away into
rivers Monday and Tuesday as heavy rain continued in the Tohoku
region due to warm, damp air flowing north fro...
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A 34-year-old Chinese doctor is struggling to help a
short-staffed hospital in a northeastern Japanese city under a rare
project led by the local government, being faced with a chronic
short...
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New internal affairs minister Hiroya Masuda, a former Iwate
governor, vowed Monday to address economic gaps between urban areas
and the countryside, which were seen as one of the major factor...
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Iwate
Voting underway for Kumamoto, Iwate lower house by-elections
