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Gifu

American  
[gee-foo] / ˈgiˈfu /

noun

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


Gifu British  
/ ˈɡiːfuː /

noun

  1. a city in Japan, on central Honshu: hot springs, textile and paper lantern manufacturing. Pop: 401 269 (2002 est)

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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The study included 92 people with type 2 diabetes in Gifu Prefecture, Japan, who had just started GLP-1 therapy.

From Science Daily May 7, 2026

The Gifu incident prompted a 5% slump in the Sushiro parent company's stock price earlier this week, although it later recovered.

From BBC Feb. 3, 2023

The video, taken in an outlet in the central province of Gifu, has generated tens of millions of views since it hit the internet.

From Washington Post Feb. 2, 2023

Noda graduated from Sophia University in Tokyo and worked at the prestigious Imperial Hotel in Tokyo before she entered politics, succeeding her grandfather, who was a parliamentarian in Gifu prefecture.

From Seattle Times Jul. 26, 2022

Without instrumental aid, detailed record was of course impossible; but fortunately the buried seismographs at Gifu and Nagoya were uninjured, and in about seven hours both were once more in working order.

From A Study of Recent Earthquakes by Davison, Charles

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