Akashi (明石市; -shi) is a city located in southern Hyogo, Japan, on the Inland Sea west of Kobe. It was an important city during Japan's pre-modern period due to the presence of Akashi Castle.
As of 2003, the city has an estimated population of 291,869 and the density of 5,929.89 persons per km². The total area is 49.22 km².
Akashi and JW colporteurs were arrested in 1933 for infringing the Public Order Preservation Law which prohibited irreverence toward the Japanese imperial regime.
Akashi was released due to insufficient evidence, reorganized, and sent colporteurs to Japanese colonies such as Taiwan, Korea and Manchuria.
The verdict on Akashi in the 1948Yearbook of JWs was:
Akashi, H. 1999 Inferring the fitness effects of DNA mutations from patterns of polymorphism and divergence: Statistical power to detect directional selection under stationarity and free recombination.
Akashi, H., 1999 Within and between species DNA sequence variation and the "footprint" of natural selection.
Akashi, H, and T. Gojobori, 2002 Metabolic efficiency and amino acid composition in the proteomes of Escherichia coli and Bacillus subtilis.
Feeds |
Contact