Kushiro

[koo-sheer-oh, koo-shee-raw]

noun

1. a city in SE Hokkaido, Japan.

Example Sentences

It was conducted in collaboration with researchers from the Kitami Institute of Technology and the Kushiro Board of Education.

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"It's appropriate at this stage to sustain monetary easing, and earnestly scrutinise wage and price developments," Tamura said a speech to business leaders in Kushiro, northern Japan.

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KUSHIRO, Japan — The dance of the red-crowned cranes commenced, an impromptu pas de deux.

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But thanks to a decades-long effort led by local conservators and subsidized by the Japanese government, the number of red-crowned cranes in Mr. Yamazaki’s town, Kushiro, has swelled to about 1,900.

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Scientists worry that a disease outbreak in Kushiro could wipe out the heavy concentration of cranes in the area.

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