Nishihara [village] - Nishihara

Japanese: 西原[村] - にしはら

A village in Aso County, central Kumamoto Prefecture. Population 5,144 (1995). Located on the western slope of the outer rim of Mount Aso, the Toriko River, part of the Shirakawa River system, and the Nuno River, part of the Midorikawa River system, flow westward. Most of the village area is forest, and the village produces rice, tobacco, and sweet potatoes, but livestock farming is particularly thriving, with a prefectural public breeding farm that takes in and raises calves from farmers across the prefecture, and the Kumamoto Breeding Bull Center. The Taisei Field Reservoir in Komori, the central settlement, also irrigates the fields of the neighboring towns of Kikuyo and Mashiki. [Matsuhashi Koji]

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

熊本県中部，阿蘇郡の村。人口5144(1995)。阿蘇山外輪山の西斜面に位置し，白川水系の鳥子川，および緑川水系の布田川が西流する。村域の大部分は山林で，米，タバコ，サツマイモを産するが，県下の農家から子牛を預かって育成する県公共育成牧場や熊本種雄牛センターがあり特に畜産が盛んである。中心集落の小森にある大切畑溜池は隣接する菊陽町や益城町の畑地をも灌漑する。【松橋公治】

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