Tokyo Bay

American  

noun

1. an inlet of the Pacific, in SE Honshu Island of Japan. 30 miles (48 km) long; 20 miles (32 km) wide.

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Example Sentences

During a July solo appearance at Brooklyn’s National Sawdust, Lowe test-drove four of the album’s tracks, including “Love Starvation,” “Blue on Blue,” “Trombone,” and “Tokyo Bay.”

From Salon

At the war’s end, she was the only US aircraft carrier in Tokyo Bay to witness Japan’s surrender.

From Seattle Times

But a few years after his death in 1849, when the “black ships” of Commodore Matthew Perry sailed into what’s now Tokyo Bay, Japan’s markets were forcibly opened, and Hokusai’s woodblocks started to flutter over the ocean.

From New York Times

His 1966 “Sky Painting,” in which Francis performed a kind of transient abstract skywriting over Tokyo Bay with colored smoke emitted from helicopters, is likened to calligraphy in real space; but it’s represented by a wall-size photo enlargement that is difficult to read visually, plus some documents.

From Los Angeles Times

“We are starting from people asking what Uniqlo is,” Tsukagoshi, 44, said at Uniqlo’s warehouse-sized office building on a reclaimed island in the middle of Tokyo Bay.

From Seattle Times