However, a similar performance against Denmark could yet mean Niigata is the last port of call for all.
The Niigata pier was teeming with people who had come to see the passengers off.
Niigata's Toei Hotel was alive with sober-suited businessmen, who suddenly exploded into animation when Japan beat Tunisia.
In August 1996, a referendum was held in Maki, in Niigata prefecture, about a nuclear power plant.
Elevated levels of radioactive iodine have also been found in neighboring prefectures of Tochigi, Gunma, Niigata, Chiba and Saitama.
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The Tokyo Stock Exchange has begun merging with Japan's tiny regional exchanges, such as those in Niigata and Hiroshima.
Still, he followed us all the way to Niigata, where our homecoming ship would be launched, unable to discard his hopes.
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Other prefectures such as Niigata also think of merging with their capitals.
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The first two ships carrying the returnees left Niigata in 1959, and until 1967, 88, 000 people boarded ships for North Korea, including 6, 000 Japanese.
Resumption of operations at the Yokosuka thermal plant would bring in an additional 2.27 GWh of power, and the Niigata No. 5 Thermal plant, adding 110 megawatts (MW).
The embassy in Tokyo and the Chinese consulate in Niigata are sending buses to Miyagi, Fukushima, Ibaraki and Iwate prefectures to pick up Chinese nationals, according to the Embassy.
As in Yokohama, as well as this week's losing bid to hold the Tokushima governor's seat, exit polls in Niigata showed a sharp increase in the number of unaffiliated voters.
Osaka's only worthwhile memory was the oppressive heat as England drew with Nigeria, but it was the Japanese who celebrated before Eriksson's men when we moved on to Niigata and the last 16 game against Denmark.
At last, the ship left Niigata port.
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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.
It will take visionaries like Taniguchi to bring the hydrogen economy closer, say realists like Masasuke Takata, a professor at Nagoaka University of Technology in Niigata, and to keep the public's expectations a few notches below the utterly impossible.
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.
The devastating Niigata-Chuetsu-Oki Earthquake of July 16, 2007 caused all units at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Station to be shut down, and left us with a mountain of challenges in maintaining stable supply of electricity, making ends meets, and addressing environmental impacts.
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