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Hokkaido

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Hok·kai·do  (h-kd, hôk-d)
An island of Japan north of Honshu. It is the second largest of the Japanese islands but the least populated. Hokkaido became part of Japan in the medieval period (c. 1600) and was called Yezo or Ezo until 1868.
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Noun1.HokkaidoHokkaido - the second largest of the four main islands of Japan; to the north of Honshu
Japan, Japanese Archipelago, Japanese Islands - a string of more than 3,000 islands to the east of Asia extending 1,300 miles between the Sea of Japan and the western Pacific Ocean
Asahikawa - a city on western Hokkaido that is the center of a fertile agricultural area
Sapporo - a commercial city in northern Japan on western Hokkaido

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In conjunction with Hokkaido University's research group, Fuji Film created a new process that can produce film sheets as large as an A4 size paper.
The sequence was identical to the Hokkaido isolate (GenBank accession no.
The site, in remote northern Hokkaido, is a pastoral, suburban backyard, surrounded by houses and trees.
 
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