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  2. List of Historic Sites of Japan (Tokyo) - Wikipedia

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    Showa period Nihongi painter studio; also a Place of Scenic Beauty Former Residence and Garden of Yokoyama Taikan 35°42′44″N 139°46′06″E  /  35.71211°N 139.76820°E  / 35.71211; 139.76820  ( Former Residence and Garden of Yokoyama

  3. List of cities in Japan - Wikipedia

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    The list is also sortable by population, area, density and foundation date. Most large cities in Japan are cities designated by government ordinance. Some regionally important cities are designated as core cities. Tokyo is not included on this list, as the City of Tokyo ceased to exist on July 1, 1943.

  4. List of suicide locations - Wikipedia

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    Tokyo Japan: An active volcano on the island of Izu Ōshima. After a suicide in 1933, media reports led to hundreds of copycats until 1936, when access was restricted. [18] Shin-Koiwa Station: Tokyo: Tokyo Japan [citation needed] Tojinbo, Japan: Sakai: Fukui Japan [citation needed] Mapo Bridge: Seoul: Gyeonggi Province South Korea [19] [20] Han ...

  5. Japanese diaspora - Wikipedia

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    In the 16th and 17th centuries, thousands of traders from Japan also migrated to the Philippines and assimilated into the local population. [29] In the 15th century AD, shimamono tea-jars were bought by the shōguns to Uji in Kyoto from the Philippines by merchants such as Luzon Sukezaemon which was used in the Japanese tea ceremony. [30]

  6. Tourism in Tokyo - Wikipedia

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    Tourism in Tokyo is a major industry. In 2006, there were 420 million visits by Japanese people and 4.81 million visits by foreigners. The economic value of tourist visits to Tokyo totaled ¥9.4 trillion yen .

  7. Japan–Philippines relations - Wikipedia

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    The Spanish Philippines offered its assistance in overthrowing the Japanese government by invasion to protect Japanese Catholics. Justo declined to participate and died of illness just 40 days afterward. These 17th-century immigrants are at the origin of some of today's 200,000-strong Japanese population in the Philippines.

  8. Japanese in the Philippines - Wikipedia

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    The place that used to be "Little Tokyo" in Davao was around the areas of Mintal, Calinan, Tugbok. [ 28 ] [ 29 ] Prominent scholars and historian like Lydia Yu-Jose and Macario Tiu wrote extensively on the lively presence of Japanese migrants in pre-war Davao due to its noticeably thriving local economy predicated by a huge concentration of ...

  9. Historical markers of the Philippines - Wikipedia

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    The First Congress of the Republic of the Philippines 1946 ~ 1949 – The marker concerning the first congress is the biggest marker made, measuring at 52x72 inches. The 1946 marker was replaced on January 27, 2010, when governor Carlos Padilla of Nueva Vizcaya asked why his father, Constancio Padilla was missing from the list of the legislators.