Oita

[aw-ee-tah]

noun

1. a seaport on NE Kyushu, in S Japan.

Oita

/ ˈɔɪtə /

noun

1. an industrial city in SW Japan, on NE Kyushu: dominated most of Kyushu in the 16th century. Pop: 437 699 (2002 est)

Example Sentences

"Tomiichi Murayama, the father of Japanese politics, passed away today at 11:28 am at a hospital in Oita City at the age of 101," Mizuho Fukushima, head of the Social Democratic Party, seen as the successor to Murayama's now-defunct Socialist Party, said on X.

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Hiroyuki Takano, the secretary general of the Social Democratic Party in Oita, Murayama's hometown, told AFP he had been informed that the former premier died of old age.

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The Fire and Disaster Management Agency said Thursday that six in Ehime prefecture, one in neighboring Kochi and two others in Oita on Kyushu island suffered minor injuries, mostly from falling at home.

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"Our collaborative study shed light on the diversity in the boreal biome of newly discovered endophytic fungi and their sensitivity to climate," said study co-lead author Shuzo Oita, who completed his doctoral studies in Arnold's lab and is now a research scientist at Sumitomo Chemical Co.,

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The closure of its Osaka plant follows closures in its production lines in Oita, Shiga and Kyoto prefectures.

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