Gifu

Rock in Japan tells of Canada meteor impact 200...
Traces of a meteor impact were found in part of the clay layer in the center. (Provided by Tetsuji Onoue)
November 06, 2012
Scientists working in Japan have discovered traces of a giant meteor impact that left a 100-kilometer crater in Canada more than 200 million years ago.
City hopes to reel in tourists with cormorant...
The Nagaragawa Ukai Museum's theater will allow visitors to experience the spectacle of cormorant fishing year-round. (Hideki Ito)
August 03, 2012
GIFU--A museum devoted to an eccentric fishing tradition that uses live cormorants to catch river fish opened here on Aug 1.
JAPAN HERITAGE Nagaragawa: A flood of activities to ...
The Nagaragawa river in Gifu Prefecture is famed for a centuries-old style of fishing in which a fisherman maneuvers fish-gulping cormorants, a show that even impressed Charlie Chaplin. (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
October 21, 2011
People say time changes everything. But this does not seem to apply to the Nagaragawa river, flowing 166 kilometers through Gifu Prefecture in central Japan.
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