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Utsunomiya

American  
[oo-tsoo-naw-mee-yah] / ʊˈtsu nɔˈmi jɑ /

noun

  1. a city on central Honshu, in central Japan.


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A veterinarian fired a tranquiliser gun at the bear in Utsunomiya, home to half a million people, but missed the first shot.

From BBC ● Jun. 9, 2026

Utsunomiya continued, "because we knew that most of the Cs in CsMPs is fission derived, we thought that analysis of the pollucite could yield the first ever direct images of radioactive Cs atoms."

From Science Daily ● May 15, 2024

"Stop Tokyo Olympics" campaign organizer Kenji Utsunomiya said he planned to deliver petitions Friday with 375,000 online signatures to Tokyo organizers and Suga.

From Fox News ● May 21, 2021

“Stop Tokyo Olympics” campaign organizer Kenji Utsunomiya said he planned to deliver petitions Friday with 375,000 online signatures to Tokyo organizers and Suga.

From Seattle Times ● May 20, 2021

I avoided the one usually taken by Utsunomiya, and by doing so lost the most magnificent of the two avenues, which extends for nearly fifty miles along the great highway called the Oshiu-kaido.

From Unbeaten Tracks in Japan by Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird

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