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Takayama

(Encyclopedia)Takayama täkäˈyämə [key], city (1990 pop. 65,243), Gifu prefecture, W central Honshu, Japan, on the Jinzu River. A former castle town from the Edo era, it is now an agricultural market and handic...

Toyota

(Encyclopedia)Toyota toi-ōˈtə, Jap. tōyōˈtä [key], city (1990 pop. 332,336), Aichi prefecture, central Honshu, Japan. It is a major industrial center dominated by the Toyota Motor Company, which produces pas...

Shimada

(Encyclopedia)Shimada shĭmäˈdä [key], city (1990 pop. 73,810), Shizuoka prefecture, E central Honshu, Japan, on the Oi River. It is a distribution point for timber and rice and a center for woodworking, chemica...

Sagamihara

(Encyclopedia)Sagamihara sägämēˈhärä [key], city (1990 pop. 531,542), Kanagawa prefecture, central Honshu, Japan. It is a suburb of Tokyo with metallurgical, food processing, and electrical appliance industri...

MacArthur, Douglas

(Encyclopedia)MacArthur, Douglas, 1880–1964, American general, b. Little Rock, Ark.; son of Arthur MacArthur. At the beginning (1950) of the Korean War he was appointed commander of UN military forces in South ...

Ichihara

(Encyclopedia)Ichihara ēchēˈhärä [key], city, Chiba prefecture, central Honshu, Japan, on Tokyo Bay. Part ...

Himeji

(Encyclopedia)Himeji hēmāˈjē [key], city, Hyogo prefecture, SW Honshu, Japan. A railroad and market cen...

Hadano

(Encyclopedia)Hadano hädäˈnō [key], city, Kanagawa prefecture, E central Honshu, Japan. An important co...

Hagi

(Encyclopedia)Hagi häˈgē [key], city, Yamaguchi prefecture, W Honshu, Japan, on the delta of the Abu Riv...

Goto-retto

(Encyclopedia)Goto-retto gōtōˈ-rĕtˈtō [key], group of more than 125 islands, 249 sq mi (645 sq km), Nagasaki prefecture, in the East China Sea, off W Kyushu, Japan. Fukue is the largest island. Whaling and fi...