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Abashiri (網走市, Abashiri-shi) is a city located in Okhotsk Subprefecture, Hokkaido, Japan. Abashiri is known as the site of the Abashiri Prison, a Meiji-era facility used for the incarceration of political prisoners. The old prison has been turned into a museum, but the city's new maximum-security prison is still in use.
Release. August 1, 2007. Genre (s) MMO, racing. Mode (s) Multiplayer. Drift City (also known as Skid Rush (스키드러쉬) in South Korea) is a massively multiplayer online racing video game developed by NPluto and sponsored by several major automotive companies such as Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep, and U1 Technology. The standalone iOS and Android ...
Osaka. Diocese. Kyoto. The St. Joseph Roman Catholic Church (カトリック西陣聖ヨゼフ教会) is s a parish of the Roman Catholic Church in the Nishijin district of the city of Kyoto. It is the second oldest Catholic Church in Kyoto. [1][2]
The Catholic Bishops' Conference of Japan is the Japanese episcopal conference, which serves as the main decision-making body of the Church in Japan. The current President of the CBCJ is Isao Kikuchi. [8] The Catholic Church in Japan is divided into three ecclesiastical provinces with a total of 15 dioceses, three of which are metropolitan ...
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Apostolic Prefecture of Kagoshima was formed on March 18, 1927, combining the prefectures of Kagoshima and Okinawa. After the five prefectures of Fukuoka, Saga, Kumamoto, Miyazaki, and Oita were combined into the newly formed Fukuoka Diocese, Nagasaki Diocese became the first diocese under a Japanese ordinary on July 16 of that year.
Founded. 1877. (1877) Architecture. Completed. 1925, 1959. Demolished. 1945. The Immaculate Conception Cathedral[1] (無原罪の聖母司教座聖堂) also St. Mary's Cathedral, [2][3] often known as Urakami Cathedral (Japanese: 浦上天主堂, romanized: Urakami Tenshudō) after its location Urakami, is a Roman Catholic cathedral located in ...
In December 1862, two French priests from the Société des Missions Étrangères, Fathers Louis Furet and Bernard Petitjean, were assigned from Yokohama to Nagasaki with the intention of building a church honoring the Twenty-Six Martyrs of Japan (eight European priests, one Mexican priest and seventeen Japanese Christians who were crucified in 1597 by order of Toyotomi Hideyoshi) who had been ...