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Koriyama

American  
[kaw-ree-yah-mah] / ˈkɔ riˈjɑ mɑ /

noun

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


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She had become almost inured to such behavior as she went through trainings at Camp Koriyama in northeastern Japan.

From Washington Post Feb. 26, 2023

In 2011, about 9,100 people who had lived in villages elsewhere in Fukushima evacuated to Koriyama.

From New York Times Oct. 15, 2019

On July 8—chosen for the date of 7/8—the Fukushima prefecture city of Koriyama held a Daruma festival to inspire the refugees from the surrounding area.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 10, 2011

"They say, 'We're going to pay, we're going to pay, we're going to pay,'" says Kuniei Kanno, a farmer in Koriyama who lost his annual broccoli crop because it was illegal to sell.

From Time Aug. 25, 2011

Officials wearing protective suits chat as they usher people through a radiation emergency scanning center in Koriyama, Japan, Tuesday, March 15, 2011 four days after a giant quake and tsunami struck the country’s northeastern coast.

From Washington Post Mar. 15, 2011

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