The Nippon Foundation of Tokyo, Japan, is a private, non-profit grant-making organization. It was established in 1962 by Ryōichi Sasakawa. The foundation's mission is to direct Japanese motorboat racing revenue into philanthropic activities, it uses this money to pursue global maritime development and assistance for humanitarian work, both at home and abroad. In the humanitarian field, it focuses on such fields as social welfare, public health, and education. The foundation has also been criticized for promoting Japanese historical negationism, particularly in whitewashing Japanese war crimes committed in World War II.
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Jean Armour, also known as the \"Belle of Mauchline\", was the wife of the poet Robert Burns. She inspired many of his poems and bore him nine children, three of whom survived into adulthood.
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Zabukovica is a settlement in the Municipality of Žalec in east-central Slovenia. It lies in the hills south of Žalec. The area is part of the traditional region of Styria. The Municipality of Žalec is included in the Savinja Statistical Region. Zabukovica includes the hamlets of Kurja Vas, Močle, Odele, Podvine, Porence, Slovenski Dol, Sončni Hrib, and Zabukovška Vas.
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