Otaru
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Staff at the Asarigawa Onsen Ski Resort in Otaru said that the travelator's safety mechanism, which was designed to immediately halt operations if it detected that an object was trapped in the machinery, had worked earlier in the day.
From BBC
The Suiso Frontier, the ship Granholm toured Friday as it was docked in the port of Otaru, is the world’s only liquefied hydrogen marine carrier.
From Washington Times
The first performer of Asian descent to win an Academy Award for acting, Umeki was born in Otaru, Japan, and began her career as a nightclub singer during World War II. Making her way to New York in the mid-1950s, she quickly got a record contract and a regular spot on the TV variety show “Arthur Godfrey and His Friends.”
From Seattle Times
Her first produced screenplay was “The Keeping Room,” a Civil War-era drama that first premiered at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival starring Brit Marling, Hailee Steinfeld and Muna Otaru and directed by Daniel Barber.
From Los Angeles Times
And Otaru’s Mad is increasingly emboldened as the story continues — the film’s only acknowledgment of the larger issues at stake in the war.
From Washington Post
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