Katsuura was elevated to city status on October 1, 1958.

In addition Katsuura city is the home of the Museum of the Sea ().

* Katsuura, Chiba, a city in Chiba Prefecture

The district formerly included all of the city of Katsuura, most of the city of Isumi and a portion of the town of Mutsuzawa.

Katsuura was elevated to city status on October 1, 1958.

* Katsuura, Chiba, city located in Chiba Prefecture, Japan

Katsuura is located on the east coast of southern Chiba Prefecture in the approximate center of the Bōsō Peninsula.

Katsuura is historically known as a fishing port, and currently has the second largest catch in Chiba Prefecture after Chōshi City.

Katsuura is home to small-scale sake production, and koshihikari rice, blueberries, kiwi fruit, and shiitake mushrooms are also produced in the area.

is a town located in Katsuura District, Tokushima, Japan.

is a town located in Katsuura District, Tokushima, Japan.

The Kumano Nachi Taisha, one of the three Kumano Shrines, is in Nachi Katsuura.

There are nine active fishing ports in Katsuura, with the Port of Katsuura being the largest.

The district was named after the Isumi River, which runs from the mountainous areas of Katsuura to the south of Kujūkuri Beach on the Pacific Ocean.

Katsuura features an oceanic climate due to its proximity to the Kuroshio Current.

Chichester then decided to circumnavigate the world solo ; he made it to Japan but, on take-off from Katsuura Harbour Wakayama, he collided with an overhead cable, sustaining serious injuries.

Katsuura, along with Chōshi City, has the coolest summers in Chiba Prefecture.

The area around Katsuura was part of Isumi District of former Kazusa Province.

Katsuura Village was founded on April 1, 1889.

Many highway bus services now use the Tokyo Bay Aqua-Line, including lines from Tokyo Station, Yokohama Station and Haneda Airport to Kisarazu, Kimitsu, Kamogawa, Katsuura and Tateyama.

Katsuura was elevated to town status on March 12, 1890, Kuniyoshi ( future Chōjamachi ) on September 22, 1893, Ōhara on December 2, 1899, Onjuku on April 1, 1914, and Okitsu on January 1, 1921.

On August 17, 2009, a beach house in Katsuura, Chiba was also searched.

On Fridays, the day when many Persians relax with poetry, talk, and a samovar, people do not, it is true, stream into Chehel Sotun -- a pavilion and garden built by Shah Abbas 2, in the seventeenth century -- but they do retire into hundreds of pavilions throughout the city and up the river valley, which are smaller, more humble copies of the former.

It is said that, even at the present stage of Southern urbanization, such a city as Atlanta is not distinctly unlike Columbus or Trenton.

The thousands of city migrants who desert the farms yearly must readjust with even greater stress and tension: the sacred wilderness is gradually surrendering to suburbs and research parks and industrial areas.

Around that statue in the green park where children play and lovers walk in twos and there is a glowing view of the whole city, in that park are the rows of marble busts of Garibaldi's fallen men, the ones who one day rushed out of the Porta San Pancrazio and, under fire all the way, up the long, straight narrow lane to take, then lose the high ground of the Villa Doria Pamphili.

It is remembered and has been commemorated by a bust in a park and a square in the city which was renamed Piazzo Lauro Di Bosis after the war.

Falling somewhere in a category between Einstein's theory and sand fleas -- difficult to see but undeniably there, nevertheless -- is the tropical green `` city '' of Islandia, a string of offshore islands that has almost no residents, limited access and an unlimited future.

But it would greatly strengthen any Mayor's executive powers, remove the excuse in large degree that he is a captive of inaction in the Board of Estimate, increase his budget-making authority both as to expense and capital budgets, and vest in him the right to reorganize city departments in the interest of efficiency and economy.

A road block to desirable local or borough improvements, heretofore dependent on the pocketbook vote of taxpayers and hence a drag on progress, is removed by making these a charge against the whole city instead of an assessment paid by those immediately affected.

`` It's a whole lot easier '', he said, `` to increase the population of Nevada, than it is to increase the population of New York city ''.

This is our duty -- not as nurses or city employes -- but as citizens of the United States.

It is visible throughout the city, and men from Madison Ave. would jump at the chance.

If an atom bomb in 1945 could destroy an entire city surely the atomic arsenal we now have is more than adequate to fulfill any military objective required of it.

Or the city can be a graveyard monument to Western intransigence, if that is what the West wants.

The Lenin tomb is obviously adequate for double occupancy, Moscow is a crowded city, and the creed of Communism deplores waste.

Even apart from the fact that now at the age of 31 my personal life is being totally disrupted for the second time for no very compelling reason -- I cannot help looking around at the black leather jacket brigades standing idly on the street corners and in the taverns of every American city and asking myself if our society has gone mad.

Warsaw is my city, not Tel Aviv ''.

It should be kept in mind that the ease or difficulty with which a town or city can convert to the proposed plan is directly dependent upon the financial condition of that town or city.

The problem for the city apartment dweller is primarily to plan the use of existing space.

One of the most delightful spots in a southern tour is the city of New Orleans.

Just after sunset is a good time to record the city lights in color since you get a `` fill-in '' light from the sky.

Even when they are finished, however, the contrast will remain, for Istanbul is the only city in the world that is built upon two continents.