Maebashi

(ˈmɑːɛˈbɑːʃiː)

(Placename) a city in central Japan, on central Honshu: centre of sericulture and silk-spinning; university (1949). Pop: 283 005 (2002 est)

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In produced a column of 1,500 metres and ashfall was up to Maebashi City which is 150 kilometres away.

Japan's Mount Ontake Erupts, Traps & Injures Hikers (VIDEOS)

Kazan Kono, 45, entered the partially guilty plea during the first hearing of his trial at the Maebashi District Court.

Driver pleads partially guilty on charges over fatal bus accident

MAEBASHI, Japan - The driver of a tour bus who caused a fatal accident on an expressway in April 2012 pleaded partially guilty of professional negligence Tuesday, saying he did not feel drowsy while at the wheel but had not had sufficient sleep.

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Tohru Kobayashi of Gunma University in Maebashi, Japan.

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Born in Maebashi City, Japan to her parents Kii and Hyakutaro Tomaru, she was married to Thomas in 1956.

Machiko "Mickey" (Tomaru) Clemmey, 82

Over 400m he earned gold in Maebashi in 1999, silver in Paris in 1997 and bronze in Birmingham in 2003.

Students on right track; Athletics ace Jamie gives talk

Shoji Arino, leader of the 650,000-member union, told its regular convention in Maebashi, Gunma Prefecture, ''The restart of existing reactors should be decided in a cool-headed manner while taking public livelihood and the nation's economy into consideration.

Electric machinery labor union calls for relaunch of reactors

MAEBASHI, Japan - Kazuo Nakamura, whose experience as a soldier in the Imperial Japanese Army was fictionalized in the novel ''The Burmese Harp,'' died Wednesday of old age, his family said Saturday.

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Company president Osamu Maebashi, who used to be homeless, was once hailed as a rookie entrepreneur supporting the unemployed and homeless.

Land of the rising slum

Riken Forge of Maebashi, Japan, makes hot forgings for the automotive, agricultural, and construction industries.

Compatible CAD and CAM

Sou Fujimoto's radical, radial urban house in Maebashi City (p86) prompts new ways of thinking about domestic life, and Pezo von Ellrichshausen's clifftop retreat on Chile's Pacific coast (p74) is a simple but powerful abstract statement (and constructed by locals using only one concrete mixer and a quartet of wheelbarrows).

Emerging Architecture: the AR's annual survey of youthful global architectural activity manifests great diversity and invention

Baulch also came away with a medal of each colour in the individual 400m at three appearances at the World Indoor Championships, clinching the gold in 1999 in Maebashi, Japan.