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Maebashi

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Maebashi (mäā`bäshē), city (1990 pop. 286,261), capital of Gumma prefecture, central Honshu, Japan, on the Tone River. Now a silk textile center, it was formerly the castle town of the Matsudaira clan.
Maebashi
a city in central Japan, on central Honshu: centre of sericulture and silk-spinning; university (1949). Pop.: 283 005 (2002 est.)

Maebashi 

a city in Japan in central Honshu; the capital of Gumma Prefecture. Population, 233,700 (1970). Maebashi is a transportation junction. It is one of the centers of a large silk-worm-breeding region and of the silk industry. The city has plants manufacturing transportation and agricultural machinery.



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MAEBASHI, Japan, April 6 Kyodo An elementary school that will teach nearly all subjects in English opened Wednesday in a Gunma Prefecture city that has been authorized to run schools emphasizing foreign language education under the state's deregulation initiative.
The 29-year-oldWelshman, who claimed the world indoor 400 metres title in the Japanese city of Maebashi in 1999, travelled to Birmingham last weekend to begin preparations.
He and Colin Jackson were the only two British winners from the championships in Maebashi two years ago.
 
 
 
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