Kofu

American

[koh-foo, kaw-foo] / ˈkoʊ fu, ˈkɔ fʊ /

noun

a city on S Honshu, in central Japan.

Kofu British

/ ˈkəʊfuː /

noun

a city in central Japan, on S Honshu: textiles. Pop: 190 098 (2002 est)

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The weather agency's Kofu office is expected to make an official announcement on the exact date the snow fell.

From BBC

The previous record of 26 October has been seen twice before in 1955 and 2016, Yutaka Katsuta, a forecaster at Kofu Local Meteorological Office told AFP.

From BBC

Researchers successfully bred mice from freeze-dried sperm shipped 200 kilometers from Kyoto to Kofu on a postcard via standard mail delivery.

From Scientific American

He was renting a small house in Kofu along with a friend of his, but his roommate was abroad so we were given our own room to sleep in.

From The New Yorker

Backpacks on our backs, we boarded an express train at Shinjuku Station bound for Matsumoto, and got off at Kofu.

From The New Yorker

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