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Okayama (ōkä`yämä), city (1990 pop. 593,730), capital of Okayama prefecture, SW Honshu, Japan, on an inlet of the Inland Sea. It is a railroad hub and industrial and marketing center. Machinery, cotton textiles, chemicals, and rubber goods are produced in Okayama. The city has a 16th-century feudal castle, an 18th-century park, and Okayama Univ., which has a famous medical college. Okayama prefecture (1990 pop. 1,925,913), 2,721 sq mi (7,047 sq km), which relies mainly on agriculture, has an oil refinery and automobile, petrochemical, and steel industries. Okayama a city in SW Japan, on W Honshu on the Inland Sea. Pop.: 621 809 (2002 est.) How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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District Office to be closed Office into which Scheduled closed office will consolidation date be consolidated Chukyo Kasugai Nagoya November 20, 2006 District Okazaki Handa Ogaki Gifu Chugoku Tsuyama Okayama District Kure Mihara Tottori Matsue Yonago Matsue Kyushu Fukuoka-nishi Fukuoka District Omuta Tamana Fukue Nagasaki Takahisa Miyatake of Okayama University in Japan got interested in death feigning while researching ideas for wiping out sweet potato weevils (Cyclas formicarius) in Japan's southwestern islands. Washio M, Mizoue T, Kajioka T, Yoshimitsu T, Okayama M, Hamada T, et al. |
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