(2002 est. pop. 8.6 million). Kanagawa Prefecture is situated in the central region of Japan's island of Honshu, where it occupies an area of 2,403 square kilometers. Its main geographical features are western mountains, southeastern plains, and...

Kanagawa Prefecture (神奈川県, Kanagawa-ken?) is a prefecture located in the southern Kantō region of Honshū, Japan. The capital is Yokohama. Kanagawa is part of the Greater Tokyo...

In Japan, Babey Moulton and Backen, Arrigoni & Ross collaborate on a new breed of retirement community. Sun City Kanagawa is a continuing care retirement community modeled on American counterparts. The concept, once foreign to a culture based on an extended family...

Shin-Etsu Chemical is the world's largest manufacturer of polyvinyl chloride (PVC), producing more than 3 million tons of the material in plants in the United States, Europe and Japan. It is also performing very effectively in other lines of business, such as the...