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Ezo - the second largest of the four main islands of Japan; to the north of Honshu

Japan, Japanese Archipelago, Japanese Islands - a string of more than 3,000 islands to the east of Asia extending 1,300 miles between the Sea of Japan and the western Pacific Ocean

Asahikawa - a city on western Hokkaido that is the center of a fertile agricultural area

Sapporo - a commercial city in northern Japan on western Hokkaido

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Estimating larval supply of Ezo abalone Haliotis discus hannai in a small bay using a coupled particle-tracking and hydrodynamic model: insights into the establishment of harvest refugia.

Larval dispersal of abalone and its three modes: a review

Theywill emphasizeon frozen Ezo abalone as well in the future.

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KUSHIRO, Japan - Hokkaido, Japan's northernmost main island, has an estimated population of 640,000 indigenous "Ezo" deer that cause huge damage to crops.

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(24) In addition, the Ainu peoples of the northern island of Ezo, in a lopsided trading relationship with the Matsumae family, began to ship "tens of thousands" of deerskins to the Japanese market, and this trade lasted for the majority of the Edo period, although again, by the eighteenth century, the imports diminished dramatically because of over-hunting.

Skins in the game: the Dutch East India Company, Deerskins, and the Japan Trade

Robert Hellyer adds his voice to this body of scholarship by examining in detail the relationship between Edo "Japan" and the outlying areas of Tsushima, Ryukyu, and Ezo, especially as those areas routinely facilitated contacts with Asians as well as Europeans.

Defining Engagement: Japan and Global Contexts, 1640-1868

Makpandu and Ezo in southern Sudan), (12) most internally displaced find themselves seeking shelter with local populations and sharing already scarce resources in order to survive.

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The earliest Japanese histories describe a group called the Emishi who inhabited northern Honshu and Ezo (Hokkaido).

Ainu submergence and emergence: human rights discourse and the expression of ethnicity in modern Japan

"They're just humans," sixth-grader eZo Cina-Sklar said.

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Easy-open lids (EZO) are at the forefront of this movement, according to a technical session at Pack Expo/Food Processing Machinery Expo.

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Longtime Sapporo resident Phred Kaufman is founder and owner of Ezo Beer, as well as Beer Inn Mugishutei, where patrons order from a list of over 300 brews.

It's bottoms up--way up--in Hokkaido: a California transplant and beer connoisseur believes Japan is ready to soak up the microbrew trend