The headquarters of 3 nationally renowned pastry companies ( Rokkatei, Ryugetsu, and Cranberry ) are also located in Obihiro.

The City of Obihiro also created a resolution on March 27, 1968, the sister city agreement was signed by both sides, and exchange between the two cities began.

The Fighters also host a select number of regional home games in cities across Hokkaidō, including Hakodate, Asahikawa, Kushiro, and Obihiro.

There is also a bus which runs from Obihiro, and makes a stop in Shimizu, bringing passengers to the New Chitose Airport in Sapporo.

There are also local trains to Obihiro ( 30 mins ) and Kushiro ( 2 hours.

) The town is also connected to North East Tokachi by local bus which travels between Obihiro and Rikubetsu.

The festival takes place on the downtown streets of Obihiro and includes a taiko drum performance that spans multiple city blocks with teams from all over Hokkaidō, an energetic night-time parade called Yume Furu Ya ( 夢降夜, " The night of raining dreams ") which expresses hopes for a good harvest, and a 2 hour long O-bon dance that includes an open section for anyone to jump in and dance along with all the other groups who are competing for first prize.

Obihiro is famous for pork meat glazed in a special sauce on rice, which is called butadon ( 豚丼 ) and mutton, which is oddly named after Genghis Khan and called jingiskan ( ジンギスカン ).

The Kamchatka Fritillary ( F. camschatcensis ) is the floral emblem of Ishikawa Prefecture and Obihiro city in Japan.

Tokachi-Obihiro Airport is in the city of Obihiro.

Despite its reputation for extreme cold, Abashiri is not actually the coldest major town in Japan, being less cold in the winter than Obihiro and hotter in summer than Nemuro or Kushiro.

Obihiro is the only designated city in the Tokachi area.

In 2008, Obihiro was designated as a ' model environmental city ' in Japan.

The Tokachi-Obihiro Airport is located to the southeast of downtown Obihiro, but is still within the city's borders.

It takes 30 minutes by car or 40 minutes by bus from Obihiro Station to the airport.

From Obihiro, it takes 2 hrs 30 mins to get New Chitose Airport by train and just over 3 hours to get there by car.

Obihiro was the area first settled by Benzō Yoda in May 1883.

In 1957 the villages of Taishō and Kawanishi merged with Obihiro, bringing it to its current size.

: 1933: Obihiro becomes a municipality.

Obihiro, along with most of Tokachi, has a large agricultural sector that revolves around large scale farming operations.

Farms within the boundaries of Obihiro have an average of approximately 24 hectares of arable land ; exceeding the Hokkaidō average ( 17. 41 ha ) and the national average ( 1. 57 ha ).

Obihiro has 26 public elementary schools and 15 public middle schools.

The Obihiro University of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine is the only university in Tokachi.

Obihiro is blessed to have one of Japan's most pristine rivers flowing through its city limits.

On March 21, 1967, the mayor of Obihiro sent a picture album and other materials to introduce the city to the mayor of Seward.

Obihiro sends the Mayor of Seward a wooden carving of a bear.

Since the Obihiro Economic Observation Group visited Seward in September, 1971, there have been various exchanges between Seward and Obihiro.

Interaction between the two cities began with Chaoyang's Economic Observation Group Visit to Obihiro on May 30, 1985.

Today the private detective will also investigate insurance claims or handle divorce cases, but his primary function remains what it has always been, to assist those who have money in their unending struggle with those who have not.

The term altruism may also refer to an ethical doctrine that claims that individuals are morally obliged to benefit others.

Agnosticism is the view that the truth values of certain claims — especially claims about the existence or non-existence of any deity, but also other religious and metaphysical claims — are unknown and ( so far as can be judged ) unknowable.

But Paneloux also claims that God is present to offer succor and hope.

In the East abbots, if in priests ' orders and with the consent of the bishop, were, as we have seen, permitted by the second Nicene council, AD 787, to confer the tonsure and admit to the order of reader ; but gradually abbots, in the West also, advanced higher claims, until we find them in AD 1489 permitted by Innocent IV to confer both the subdiaconate and diaconate.

Astrometry has also been used to support claims of extrasolar planet detection by measuring the displacement the proposed planets cause in their parent star's apparent position on the sky, due to their mutual orbit around the center of mass of the system.

John of Worcester also claims that at Wulfstan's consecration, Stigand, the archbishop of Canterbury extracted a promise from Ealdred that neither he nor his successors would lay claim to any jurisdiction over the diocese of Worcester.

) Hilton also claims a Roman Catholic monarch would therefore be unable to be crowned by the Archbishop of Canterbury and points to the examples of European states that have similar religious provisions for their monarchs: Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, whose constitutions compel their monarchs to be Lutherans, the Netherlands, the constitution of which insists its monarchs be members of the Protestant House of Orange, and Belgium, which has a constitution that provides for the succession to be through Roman Catholic houses.

Some critics have also analyzed the use of alleged front organizations and conflicted patient " advocacy " groups funded by pharmaceutical companies that seek to set the mental health agenda, including the use of the law to force people to take antipsychotics against their will, often justified by claims about risk of violence.

* Vasconic substratum hypothesis: This proposal, by the German linguist Theo Vennemann, claims that there is enough toponymical evidence to conclude that Basque is the only survivor of a larger family that once extended throughout most of Europe, and has also left its mark in modern Indo-European languages spoken in Europe.

According to bundle theory, an object consists of its properties and nothing more: thus neither can there be an object without properties nor can one even conceive of such an object ; for example, bundle theory claims that thinking of an apple compels one also to think of its color, its shape, the fact that it is a kind of fruit, its cells, its taste, or at least one other of its properties.

They also scoured the minor leagues for selections in the Rule 5 draft ( Paul Blair from the Mets in 1962, Moe Drabowsky from the Cardinals in 1965 ) and claims off waivers ( Curt Blefary, 1965 AL Rookie of the Year, from the Yankees in 1963 ).

Archaeological evidence, such as the Serpent Column, also supports some of Herodotus's specific claims.

There are also implicit claims to being the Christ in the words and actions of Jesus.

High wages and Aboriginal land claims have also curbed expansion.

Chile also claims about of Antarctica, although all claims are suspended under the Antarctic Treaty.

The author claims that this included not only ritual cannibalization of the livers of freshly killed prisoners, but also the cannibalization-for-sustenance of living prisoners over the course of several days, amputating limbs only as needed to keep the meat fresh.

From then on the French succession not only excluded females, but also rejected claims based on the female line of descent.

Kilsyth also claims the oldest purpose-built curling pond in the world at Colzium, in the form of a low dam creating a shallow pool some 100 × 250 metres in size, though this is now very seldom in condition for curling because of warmer winters.

" Anarcho-capitalist Walter Block claims, however, that, while Adam Smith was an advocate of economic freedom, he also allowed for government to intervene in many areas.

Hansen also claims that most negative impressions of Cotton Mather stem from his defense of the ongoing trials in Wonders of the Invisible World.

This theory also claims there can be only one rightful sovereign ruling all under heaven at a time but throughout Chinese history there have been many contentious and long periods of disunity where the question of legitimacy is moot ; see also Imperial Seal of China.