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Nagoya


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Nagoya

Nagoja

Place Type
inhabited place
Description
Major industrial center producing textiles, lumber, motor vehicles, aircraft, chemicals & ceramics; has 17th-cen. castle & Buddhist temple; was bombed heavily in World War II, but entirely reconstructed since.
Authority
Thesaurus of Geographic Names
Source
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961); Rand McNally Atlas (1994); Times Atlas of the World. Reprint ed. (1994); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988);

Born

Arakawa Shusaku (Japanese, active United States, 1936-2010)

Jun Kaneko (American, born Japan, born 1942)

Takemura Yūri (Japanese, born 1980)

Yokoi Tomoe (Japanese, born 1942)

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