A 62-year-old woman was found frozen to death in Niigata Prefecture near the fourth evacuation site her family had moved to.

一个62岁的老妇人被发现死在第四次撤离地区附近的新泻县，她们全家刚搬到那里。

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According to an old Niigata prefecture legend, Ouni appeared one day to a group of women as they were spinning hemp into yarn.

古代新滹地区的民间传说中，某日，一群妇女正在纺纱时，苎来到她们面前提出要帮忙。

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In August 1996, a referendum was held in Maki, in Niigata prefecture, about a nuclear power plant.

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Ojiya-chijimi, Echigo-jofu: techniques of making ramie fabric in Uonuma region, Niigata Prefecture developed in the north-western part of Japan s main island and bear the mark of the region s cooler climate particularly its snowy winters.

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The Japanese media have drawn attention to a quake of magnitude 6.6 on the far side of the country, between Nagano and Niigata prefectures, and to a quake of magnitude 6.1 in Shizuoka prefecture, both within days of the main quake.

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