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Kyoto

American  
[kee-oh-toh, kyaw-taw] / kiˈoʊ toʊ, ˈkjɔ 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)

"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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This quartet from Kyoto, Japan, put the Mosswood crowd in a stranglehold at the Field Stage and didn’t let up once during its entire set of math-rocky, manic, candy-colored fury.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 21, 2026

She graduated from Kyoto University with a degree in economics before pursuing a career in local government and politics.

From BBC Jul. 2, 2026

The study was conducted through a collaboration involving Kyoto University, the University of Tokyo, the University of Osaka, the National University of Singapore, and the Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science.

From Science Daily Jun. 21, 2026

Yoshihiko Okazaki of Kyoto Shimbun Printing said the company's services have been used by artists ranging from teenagers to those in their 70s.

From Barron's Jun. 1, 2026

Experiments by Makoto Ogawa of the Kansai Environmental Engineering Center, near Kyoto, Japan, demonstrated that charcoal retains its carbon in the soil for up to fifty thousand years.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

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