The confusion was heightened by a magnitude 5.3 earthquake that hit nearby Chiba Prefecture at 1:42 p.m.
Elevated levels of radioactive iodine have also been found in neighboring prefectures of Tochigi, Gunma, Niigata, Chiba and Saitama.
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In Chiba, Miss Domoto wants to cancel a land-reclamation project that Tokyo's bureaucrats have been pushing for nearly 30 years.
Four public schools in Chiba prefecture, near Tokyo, recently surrendered to the dictates of fashion and authorized miniskirts for the first time.
The company, which makes carbon black and tantalum, said facilities in Aizu and Chiba lost power, with operations temporarily suspended during the quake.
Now the number crunching can be done with a single PC, says Toshio Honda, a professor of engineering at Japan's Chiba University and a former Benton student.
This critique was applied not only to Queens and Long Island but also to places like Milton Keynes or Basildon outside London, and greater Tokyo's Chiba prefecture.
Well, that's the theory behind a robotic wheelchair concept from the Chiba Institute of Technology, which uses leg-like motion to conquer obstacles a run-of-the-mill wheelchair can't.
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Mitsubishi Electric's Diamond Vision OLED will be showcased at the company's booth at CEATEC JAPAN 2010, scheduled to be held from October 5-9 at Makuhari Messe in Chiba, Japan.
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The company got this effort under way while digging out from the damage to its logistics hub and photo studio near its headquarters in Chiba, across the bay from Tokyo.
The project, which would create land for new factories, has long since stopped making sense, says Miss Domoto: thanks to the weak economy, Chiba has plenty of empty factory space already.
At a three-day 3DS tryout event this weekend for consumers held in Chiba Prefecture, a Tokyo suburb, visitors tried 16 games for the 3DS, including new titles from the "Resident Evil" and "Street Fighter" franchises.
Sharp Corporation will take part in CEATEC JAPAN 2012, the annual comprehensive exhibition showcasing the latest in IT and electronics from October 2 to 6, 2012 at the Makuhari Messe convention center in Chiba City, Chiba Prefecture.
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Food production in the most contaminated regions, the researchers write, is likely to be "severely impaired", and that Fukishima's neighbouring regions, such as, Iwate, Miyagi, Yamagata, Niigata, Tochigi, Ibaraki, and Chiba are likely to also be affected.
The show's curators, Judy Ogana and Joy Mboya, decided to try anyway, sifting through 2, 000 photographs, most of them taken by Boniface Mwangi, a young Kenyan working for the local Daily Standard, and Yasuyoshi Chiba, a gutsy Japanese.
Just as Beijing citizens suffer from asthma and allergies, Tokyo citizens also endured endless smog-filled days, as Tokyo was encircled by factories in Haneda, Kawasaki, and Chiba (the factories have relocated elsewhere or else bankrupted by cheap imports).
Hence, he is not the scion of a political dynasty like four of the past five Japanese PMs. When he entered politics to gain a seat in the Chiba Prefecture legislature, he had no pre-existing political organization or, critically, financial base.
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