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Nagoya

[ nuh-goi-uh; Japanese nah-gaw-yah ]

noun

  1. a city on S Honshu, in central Japan.


Nagoya

/ ˈnɑːɡəʊjə /

noun

  1. a city in central Japan, on S Honshu on Ise Bay: a major industrial centre. Pop: 2 109 681 (2002 est)


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A breakthrough came in April 1971, during the Table Tennis World Championship in Nagoya, Japan.

In March, a Sri Lankan woman, Ratnayake Liyanage Wishma Sandamali, perished in an immigration facility in Nagoya after complaining of a stomach ailment since January.

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The conclusion of the court was that “Nagoya” was a code name for Kiyoshi Takayama.

Shomei Tomatsu, for example, experienced the destruction of Nagoya, his home city, as a teenager.

Kobe and Kyoto have a little more than half a million; Nagoya and Yokohama four hundred thousand apiece.

In Nagoya, in Tokyo, or wherever you are, the theme is always some natural event connected with the nature near by.

The seismographs at Gifu and Nagoya registered the first half-dozen vibrations, and were then buried beneath the fallen buildings.

The seismographs at Gifu and Nagoya were thrown down within the first few seconds, and failed to record the principal motion.

The next largest city is Nagoya, with a population of 206,742.

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