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Yahata

(Encyclopedia)Yahata: see Kitakyushu, Japan.

Yawata

(Encyclopedia)Yawata: see Kitakyushu, Japan.

Yesso

(Encyclopedia)Yesso: see Hokkaido, Japan.

Yezo

(Encyclopedia)Yezo: see Hokkaido, Japan.

Tobata

(Encyclopedia)Tobata: see Kitakyushu, Japan.

Tokio

(Encyclopedia)Tokio: see Tokyo, Japan.

Horyu-ji

(Encyclopedia)Horyu-ji: see Nara, Japan.

Uji-yamada

(Encyclopedia)Uji-yamada: see Ise, Japan.

Miki, Takeo

(Encyclopedia)Miki, Takeo, 1907–88, Japanese politician, prime minister of Japan (1974–76). He attended Meiji Univ. and the Univ. of California, Los Angeles, and was first elected to the Diet in 1937. An advoca...

burdock

(Encyclopedia)burdock bûrˈdäk [key], common name of any plant of the genus Arctium of the family Asteraceae (aster family), coarse biennials indigenous to temperate Eurasia and mostly weedy in North America. The...