why did they stop using the Hikone Castle?
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Copied from the referenced website:\n\nWhen the Meiji era began in 1868, many castles were scheduled to be dismantled, and only a request from the emperor himself, touring the area, kept Hikone Castle intact. Today it remains one of the oldest original-construction castles in Japan. Hikone Castle was designated a National Treasure by the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology in 1952.
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Some say it was because the anime caught up to the manga and the shows producers didn't want to wait for more volumes of the manga so the proceeded with their own story. There are rumors that the Jinchuu and Revenge arcs are going to be animated someday.
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The entire island was bulldozed, all buildings removed down to the foundations, everything taken off the island and the whole place was abandoned and turned into a wildlife sanctuary.\n\nThey did this when the last of the chemical weapons was destroyed a couple years ago.
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As I recall, when I was a kid (I'm 31 now) we had a civil defense plan in place but it was in the event of a nuclear war. Now that the threat of nuclear war has significantly diminished, I'm guessing the need for Civil Defense faded as well.
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You don't get to play samurai dictatorship anymore. Hayyyyy...Ya!!
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Like we have said many times before... Ninjitsu is no longer real... It will die in the mountains of Japan with the last of their kind.... Its only taught by fakes now.
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"Mother" or "House of the waiting Family"\nMother set the tone for the series and saved the show/manga from becoming a pointless hack and slash.  HotwF did basically the same things and also grounded the show making sure it connected to its roots.
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It is no longer visible in California.
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It recently finished disarming. It will probably dissolve as there is no need for it now. Nearly 100 years of war got it nowhere. I'm not sorry to see it go.
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NOW IT IS ENDANGERED GAME.\n\nSOON.. CHANCES ARE THERE TO BE TREATED AS YOU SAID
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There's a village called Astley, near to where I live, it has a castle named 'Astley Castle', I believe Royalty used to stay there. There was a terrible fire, which caused a lot of damage to it. Sorry I don't actually know what Astley means.
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according to an article on Newtype magazine\nthe next GITS SAC, mayor Motoko Kusanagi is no longer part of Sectio 9\n\nhow sad !!!
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I believe that is Okinotori Island also known as Parece Vela. It's a tiny Island claimed by the Japanese as their territory but disputed by the Chinese.
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its an age old custom which has mostly died out now.rem reading about it in history classes
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交通博物館 Kootsuu hakubutsukan\n\nTokyo's Transportation Museum just closed on May 14th and a new facility, The Railway Museum, will open in October in Saitama.  Yaemon, the famous steam engine, will probably be moved to Saitama.
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It has been discontinued by the manufacturer. Sorry!
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There used to be a good one, but they took it down\nb