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Na·go·ya

(nə-goi′ə, nä′gô-yä′)

A city of central Honshu, Japan, at the head of Ise Bay east of Kyoto. A fortress town in the 1500s, it was rebuilt after heavy bombing in World War II.

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Nagoya

(ˈnɑːɡəʊjə)

(Placename) a city in central Japan, on S Honshu on Ise Bay: a major industrial centre. Pop: 2 109 681 (2002 est)

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Na•go•ya

(nəˈgɔɪ ə)

n.

a city on S Honshu, in central Japan. 2,108,000.

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Nagoya - an industrial city in southern Honshu

Hondo, Honshu - the central and largest of the four main islands of Japan; between the Sea of Japan and the Pacific Ocean; regarded as the Japanese mainland

Nihon, Nippon, Japan - a constitutional monarchy occupying the Japanese Archipelago; a world leader in electronics and automobile manufacture and ship building

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Smoking will be prohibited in some 8,000 taxi cabs operating in Nagoya and 19 neighboring municipalities from Tuesday, according to the Nagoya-based taxi association.

Smoking in taxis to be banned in Nagoya, nearby areas

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President Katsuaki Watanabe attended a ceremony Tuesday to celebrate the completion of a skyscraper set to become a new landmark in booming Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture.

3RD LD: Nagoya celebrates completion of skyscraper

A 26-year-old woman already indicted on drug charges was served a fresh arrest warrant Tuesday on suspicion of attempting to strangle her 3-month-old son at their Nagoya house last month, police said.

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Two members of the Japanese Self-Defense Forces (SDF) were arrested Friday in two separate cases of obscene behavior in Nagoya, central Japan, police said.

2 SDF members arrested in 2 cases of obscene behavior

PAL Holdings Inc., PAL's trade name, said the following flights to and from Osaka and Nagoya are canceled: PR412 and PR408, both Manila to Osaka (Kansai International Airport).

Typhoon Krosa prompts PAL to cancel Nagoya, Osaka flights

The Bangladesh envoy was addressing a seminar attended by around eighty business representatives of Nagoya -Japan's fourth largest city and the automobile hub, according to a message received in the city.

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