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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A city of southeast Honshu, Japan, on the western shore of Tokyo Bay. Almost entirely destroyed by an earthquake and fire in 1923, it was quickly rebuilt and modernized and is now a leading port and industrial center.
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- proper noun A
city inHonshu ,Japan .
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- noun port city on southeastern Honshu in central Japan
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Examples
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YOKOHAMA PASSENGERS: Spots Yokohama, Japan, where train passengers were hospitalized after foul chemical odors; with
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Curator Shelley R. Langdale grouped the works into three broad themes: the international port of Yokohama; daily life and customs of Westerners; and the leisure and entertainment to be found in Yokohama, both for foreigners and Japanese.
How Japan Saw Us Lee Lawrence 2010
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The virtual city tour will be replicated for leaders from around Asia when they gather in Yokohama next month for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation meetings.
Japan Wants To Sell Energy-Efficient 'Smart' Cities To The World: Ceatec 2010 AP 2010
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Located in Yokohama, Japan, this Dancing Living House had put other houses in the neighborhood hide to humiliation.
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"Yokohama is a place where foreign cultures entered Japan 150 years ago and then spread to the rest of the country."
Japan Wants To Sell Energy-Efficient 'Smart' Cities To The World: Ceatec 2010 AP 2010
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Some trains go between Tokyo and Osaka with stops only in Yokohama, Nagoya, and Osaka.
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"When I landed in Yokohama," London said on July 1, after his return home, "I soon found that there were two ways to play the game -- either to sit down in Tokyo as the Japanese wanted me to and eat many dinners, or go out on my own resources."
JACK LONDON'S WAR 2010
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"Yokohama is a place where foreign cultures entered Japan 150 years ago and then spread to the rest of the country."
Japan Wants To Sell Energy-Efficient 'Smart' Cities To The World: Ceatec 2010 AP 2010
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We lay in Yokohama harbour for two weeks, and about all we saw of
Chapter 17 2010
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The virtual city tour will be replicated for leaders from around Asia when they gather in Yokohama next month for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation meetings.
Japan Wants To Sell Energy-Efficient 'Smart' Cities To The World: Ceatec 2010 AP 2010
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