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Kyoto

American  
[kee-oh-toh, kyaw-taw] / kiˈoʊ toʊ, ˈkyɔ tɔ /
Or Kioto

noun

  1. a city on S Honshu, in central Japan: the capital of Japan a.d. 794–1868.


Kyoto British  
/ kɪˈəʊtəʊ, ˈkjəʊ- /

noun

  1. a city in central Japan, on S Honshu: the capital of Japan from 794 to 1868; cultural centre, with two universities (1875, 1897). Pop: 1 387 264 (2002 est)

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Ogasawara is the translation editor for the Kyoto Journal and a writer in Pasadena.

From Los Angeles Times

However he has had rows with the US in the past, criticising their decision to leave an earlier climate treaty, the Kyoto Protocol, when he was head of the IPCC.

From BBC

This gap in understanding led researchers at Kyoto University and Meiji University to investigate whether supernova remnants might hold the missing clues.

From Science Daily

This unexpected behavior led a research team headed by Lucy Olivia McNeill of Kyoto University to examine the influence of tidal forces in these systems.

From Science Daily

A senior reactor engineering specialist at the Research Reactor Institute at Kyoto University, Hiroaki Koide, was interviewed by The New York Times that day.

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