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The town is 8 km from Chitose (and the New Chitose Airport), and to the north is Kitahiroshima City. 26 km north of Eniwa is Sapporo, the largest city and prefectural capital of Hokkaido. All of these cities are connected by the Chitose Line railway and by the Japan National Route 36. The town is on the Izari River and the Shimamatsu River. [2]
[6] [permanent dead link ] Kikkoman is the most popular brand of soy sauce in Japan [4] [7] and the United States. [8] [7] The city of Düsseldorf, Germany, is the European headquarters of the company. [9] A plant in Sappemeer, Netherlands, began operations in 1997 and now produces over 400 million litres of soy sauce per year. [10]
The massive Anpo protests against revision of the America–Japan Security Treaty are the largest protests in Japan's modern history, and force the resignation of Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi and the cancellation of a planned visit by US president Dwight D. Eisenhower. 1964: 1 October
Japan has significant diversity in flora. Of approximately 5,600 total vascular plant species, almost 40% are endemic. [1] This richness is due to the significant variation in latitude and altitude across the country, a diversity of climatic conditions due to monsoons, and multiple geohistorical incidences of connections with the mainland.
In 2018, Japan produced 9.7 million tons of rice (13th largest producer in the world), 3.6 million tons of sugar beet (used to produce sugar and ethanol), 1.2 million tons of sugarcane (used to produce sugar and ethanol), 208 thousand tons of persimmon (4th largest producer in the world), 2.3 million tons of potatoes, 1.3 million tons of cabbage, 1.6 million tons of onion, 773 thousand tons of ...
This is a list of countries by tomato production from 2016 to 2022, based on data from the Food and Agriculture Organization Corporate Statistical Database. [1] The estimated total world production for tomatoes in 2022 was 186,107,972 metric tonnes , a decrease of 1.7% from 189,281,485 tonnes in 2021. [ 1 ]
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During this period, Japan became the world's largest manufacturer of automobiles and a leading producer of electronics. [273] Japan signed the Plaza Accord in 1985 to depreciate the U.S. dollar against the yen and other currencies.