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City on W central Honshu island, Japan; capital of Kyoto prefecture. Founded in the 6th century, it was the capital of Japan for more than 1000 years. Industries: porcelain, lacquerware, textiles, precision tools. Pop. (2000) 1,468,000.

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From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
Former capital of Japan 794–1868 (when the capital was changed to Tokyo) on Honshu island, linked by canal with Lake Biwa, 510 km/317 mi west of Tokyo and 40 km/25 mi northeast of Osaka; population (2014 est) 1,469,250. Industries include electrical, chemical, and machinery plants; silk weaving; and the manufacture of porcelain, bronze, lacquerware, dolls, and fans. Features The city's more than 2,000 temples and shrines include Tō-ji (1380), Kiyomizu-dera (1633), Ryōan-ji with its 15th-century Zen rock and sand garden, Sanjusangendo (1266), and the former Ashikaga shoguns' villas Kinkaku-ji and Ginkaku-ji (the ‘gold and silver pavilions’). Other features are the Gion teahouse district with traditional geishas, the silk-weavers' district of Nishijin, 17th-century sake warehouses in Fushimi, Momoyama castle, and Japan's oldest theatre, the Minamiza kabuki theatre (early 17th century). Kyoto is the birthplace of such drama forms as No, Kyogen, and Kabuki and is a national centre for the…
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From The Oxford Companion to Sugar and Sweets
Japan's capital from 794 to 1868, enjoys special distinction for its traditional Japanese confectionery ( wagashi ). See wagashi . Tea masters recognized the excellence of Kyoto confectionery in the early 1600s: the term “Kyoto Sweet” ( Kyōgashi ) first appeared in 1627 in the tea diary Matsuya…
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From The Columbia Encyclopedia
(kyō'tō), city (1990 pop. 1,461,140), capital of Kyoto prefecture, S Honshu, Japan, on the Kamo River. Yodo is its port. Kyoto is one of Japan's largest cities and an important cultural and spiritual center. It is a key city in Japan's transportation system, and it is a major center of tourism. …
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From Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
City (pop., 2003 est.: 1,386,372), west-central Honshu , Japan. It is situated northeast of Ōsaka , and together with Kōbe it is part of a major urban-industrial region. The centre of Japanese culture and Japanese Buddhism, Kyōto (“Capital City”) was the capital of Japan and the site of the imperial…
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From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
Former capital of Japan 794–1868 (when the capital was changed to Tokyo) on Honshu island, linked by canal with Lake Biwa, 510 km/317 mi west of Tokyo and 40 km/25 mi northeast of Osaka; population (2014 est) 1,469,250. Industries include electrical, chemical, and machinery plants; silk weaving; and…
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From Merriam-Webster's Geographical Dictionary
Prefecture, Honshū, Japan; ✽ Kyōto; numerous historic sites. See table at japan . Manufacturing city, its ✽, W cen. Honshū; on a plain with mountain ranges on all sides except the S, 6 mi. (10 km.) W of S end of Lake Biwa and ab. 26 mi. (42 km.) NNE of Ōsaka; pop. (2000c) 1,467,785; center of…
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From Encyclopedia of American Foreign Policy
1997–2012 Negotiated in 1997 the Kyoto Protocol set binding limits and targets on greenhouse gas emissions. The agreement was signed on December 11 by more than 150 countries but not by the United States. On November 1998 President Bill Clinton determined that the United States would sign the Kyoto…
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1997 The purpose of the Kyoto Treaty, also known as the Kyoto Protocol, was to reduce global warming by reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Countries that ratified the Kyoto Treaty agreed to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions to 5 percent below their 1990 level by the year 2012. The treaty was…
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From Culture Wars in America: An Encyclopedia of Issues, Viewpoints, and Voices
The twentieth century's most prominent international agreement on climate change, the Kyoto Protocol, originally signed in December 1997, requires developed countries to reduce their collective emissions of greenhouse gases—carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, and others—through cleaner fuels, …
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From The A to Z of Corporate Social Responsibility
→ Climate change www.unfccc.int The Kyoto Protocol is an international legally binding agreement between most of the world's countries created in 1997 under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) to address the accumulation of greenhouse gas emissions in the atmosphere…
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The Kyoto Protocol is an international agreement linked to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. The major feature of the Kyoto Protocol is that it sets binding targets for 37 industrialized countries and the European community for reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions .These…
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