Giants of Japan: The Lives of Japan's Most Influential Men and Women.

Most significantly, the main character's name, Miyamoto Usagi, is a play on " Miyamoto Musashi ", Japan's most famous historical samurai and the author of The Book of Five Rings, and " Usagi " the Japanese language word for " rabbit " ( The story notes for one volume also cite as an influence Hiroshi Inagaki's Samurai Trilogy, which features Miyamoto Musashi as a protagonist.

Most of Japan's more skillful and experienced pilots had died during two years of near continual engagements as the U. S. stabilized the theater.

More recently, it has styled itself as ' The Little Kyoto of Aki ' and the Special Historical District of old warehouses was selected as one of Japan's ' 100 Most Scenic Towns '.

Most major league players start off their careers by working their way up the minor league system, from the lowest ( Rookie ) to the highest ( AAA ) classification, with the rare exceptions usually being those players signed from Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball.

Most importantly, US submarines were responsible for severing Japan's shipping routes to their colonies in Southeast Asia, by sinking close to half of their merchant ships.

Most wealthy Cubans lost their rural properties, and many of them joined the urban middle class.

Most cable viewers in the US are in the suburbs and tend to be middle class ; cable television is less common in low income, inner city, and rural areas.

Most of Guatemala's population is rural, though urbanization is accelerating.

Most political actors perceived Duvalier — a medical doctor who had served as a rural administrator of a United States-funded anti-yaws campaign before entering the cabinet under Estimé — as an honest and fairly unassuming leader without a strong ideological motivation or program.

Most residents of Asunción and virtually all rural inhabitants were illiterate.

Most rural housing has consisted of nipa huts that are easily damaged but are inexpensive and easy to replace.

Most of the population ( 65 %) live in rural villages dedicated to agriculture or pastures.

Most of the ramparts built in the 17th century were torn down, without ever having been besieged, to allay rural concerns over the city's hegemony.

Most of them were settled in rural communities, but also the towns ' population increased, most notably in Schwerin from 65, 000 ( 1939 ) to 99, 518 ( January 1947 ), in Wismar from 29, 463 to 44, 173, and in Greifswald from 29, 488 to 43, 897.

Most civil parishes are in rural areas, but if the parish is a town the parish council may be called a town council.

Most busy urban, sub-urban and larger rural hospitals are staffed primarily by full-time, certified career emergency physicians.

Most Russian rural localities have populations of less than 200 people, and the smaller places take the brunt of depopulation: e. g., in 1959, about one half of Russia's rural population lived in villages of fewer than 500 people, while now less than one third does.

Most Russian rural residents are involved in agricultural work, and it is very common for villagers to produce their own food.

Most varieties are drought-and heat-tolerant, and are especially important in arid regions, where the grain is one of the staples for poor and rural people.

Most Athenians were still living in rural settlements right up to the Peloponnesian War.

Most noticeably it allowed states to raise the speed limit to 65 miles per hour ( 105 km / h ) on rural Interstate highways.

Most " cities " are not, in fact, cities in the traditional sense of the word ( that is, a large urban area ) but are local government districts that have city status and often encompass large rural areas.

Most of Ward's works deal with the issue of rural housing and the problems of overpopulation and planning regulations in Britain to which he proposed anarchistic solutions.

Most of Petts Wood was built in the early 20th Century by the developer Basil Scruby together with Master builder, Noel Rees, as a high quality estate in a rural setting only a short train journey from the city, with the east side being built first: it is often quoted in sociological textboooks as a classic piece of 1920s town planning, as the first building in place was the station, and the rest of the town developed from there.

Most Caldwell Parish residents live in the country even beyond the three rural communities in the parish.

Most people who move to Two Rivers are attracted by the rural nature of the community and the extensive network of trails in the area.

Most of the area is rural and part of the Florida scrub ecosystem, with smaller areas of hammocks and cypress swamps, similar to those found at Highlands Hammock State Park, four miles ( 6 km ) west of Sebring.

Most of Richmond's original buildings were built from the mid-1840s through the 1860s and consisted of Greek Revival rural farmhouse and Richmond's commercial district.

Most of the early rural settlement around the new town was near Stout ’ s Grove, which began just west of Concord, and for the first twenty years of the town ’ s life the prairie to the north east and south was used mainly as open grazing land.

Most of the tax burden, namely two thirds, is levied by the municipalities.

Most of Italy's rivers drain either into the Adriatic Sea ( like Po, Piave, Adige, Brenta, Tagliamento, Reno ) or into the Thyrrhenian ( like Arno, Tiber and Volturno ), though the waters from some border municipalities ( Livigno in Lombardy, Innichen and Sexten in Trentino-Alto Adige / Südtirol ) drain into the Black Sea through the basin of the Drava, a tributary of the Danube, and the waters from the Lago di Lei in Lombardy drain into the North Sea through the basin of the Rhine.

Most U. S. states, counties, and municipalities have some part of their election cycle coincident with this date.

Most municipalities except for the very small ones hire an executive manager who may or may not be a member of the municipal council.

Most municipalities have advisory bodies: programme councils ( programmråd ) and vocational councils ( yrkesråd ) composed of employers ’ and employees ’ representatives from the locality.

Most municipalities have their own municipal courts, and the county has a Superior Court as well.

Most of the amalgamations leading to the present municipality took place in 1967 when the then " City of Skellefteå " was merged with the rural municipality by the same name and also with the municipalities Jörn, Bureå and Byske.

In 2001, the town of Cary was declared the fourth safest of 327 large municipalities in the nation in the 8th Annual Morgan Quitno Safest ( And Most Dangerous ) City Award.

Most of its members, called Katipuneros, came from the lower and middle classes, with many of its local leaders being prominent figures in their municipalities.

Most of the functions of municipal government for several municipalities are consolidated and administered centrally from a larger or more central town or municipality among the group, while the individual municipalities ( Ortsgemeinden ) still maintain a limited degree of local autonomy.

Most of the municipalities were soon consolidated, but in some cases the antagonism within the new unities was so strong that it led to " divorces ".

Most of the material is destined to other municipalities in the region, although some goes to other cities in Chiapas, and states such as Tabasco and Campeche.

Most services, such as healthcare and maintenance of local streets, were and remain the responsibility of municipalities of Finland.

Most of the activity in the region of Kainuu, is centered to the municipalities around this lake, which is connected to sea via Oulujoki.

Most of the municipalities are located on the islands in the Sulu Archipelago.

Most municipalities have their origin in the foral, a legal document, issued by the king, which assigned privileges to a town or a region.

Most mountains in Sendai are dormant volcanoes, much older than the more famous Zaō and Naruko volcanoes in nearby municipalities.

Most students come from Lisle, Downers Grove, and Naperville, but students in the class of 2013 came from 65 different schools and 34 different municipalities in DuPage and surrounding counties.

Most of the municipalities of the Boyacá and Cundinamarca departments are derived from Chibchan names: Bogotá, Sogamoso, Zipaquirá, and many others.

Most of the names of the municipalities come from the Yucatec Maya language, which is still spoken by more of 30 % of the population, according to INEGI ( 2000 ).

Most municipalities except for the very small ones hire an executive manager who may or may not be a member of the municipal council.

Most municipalities in Canada employ the bite and hold technique rather than the bark and hold technique meaning once the dog is deployed, it bites the suspect until the dog handler commands it to release.

Most cantons leave the option to larger municipalities to opt for a city parliament.

Most of the municipalities rejected the proposition, and the new municipality consists of Faido, Chiggiogna, Rossura, and Calonico.