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Nishinomiya (nē'shēnō`mēä), city (1990 pop. 426,909), Hyogo prefecture, S Honshu, Japan, on Osaka Bay. It produces a famous sake. Its industry, located mostly along the coast, produces metals, machinery, chemicals, and rubber goods. Nishinomiya is a resort, as well as the site of several temples that were founded in the 7th and 8th cent. Kobe Women's College is in the city. Nishinomiya an industrial city in central Japan, on S Honshu, northwest of Osaka. Pop.: 436 877 (2002 est.) How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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With a steady stream of foreign folk struggling to sort through the mysteries of the Windows OS, and an equally steady stream of deliveries of monitors, hard disks and motherboards, it was perhaps inevitable that the good burghers of Nishinomiya were unimpressed. Possible cause of unnatural mass death of wild birds in a pond in Nishinomiya, Japan: sudden appearance of toxic cyanobacteria. A researcher at the Hyogo College of Medicine in Nishinomiya, Maeda points to several pieces of evidence that link the radio emissions to the earthquake, which started 77 kilometers from his observatory. |
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