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Otsu

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Otsu (ō`ts), city (1990 pop. 260,018), capital of Shiga prefecture, S Honshu, Japan. It is a tourist center and a port for excursion boats on Lake Biwa. Electrical appliances, textiles, precision instruments, computer components, and machinery are among the city's industrial products. A former imperial seat (2d and 7th cent.), Otsu is the site of Miidera, a 7th-century Buddhist temple, and of the grave of Basho Basho (Matsuo Basho) , 1644–94, Japanese poet, critic, and essayist of the early Edo period. His literary name, Basho, is derived from the plantain trees [basho] near a hut built for him by a disciple.
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Otsu 

a city and fishing port in Japan. Situated on Honshu Island, on Lake Biwa. Capital of Shiga Prefecture. Population, 172,000 (1970). Otsu is a transportation junction. It has cement plants and a biological laboratory. The Baisenkutsu botanical gardens, which cultivate dwarf trees, are in Otsu. The city is popular with tourists.



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Biwako Bank, based in Otsu, Shiga Prefecture, will be delisted from the First Section of the Osaka Securities Exchange in February.
You just take a bag out of the freezer, remove the contents from outer packaging and leave it in the refrigerator to thaw for about five hours," said Satoko Otsu, executive officer of the company's Seattle, Washington-based distribution arm for North America.
During a three week tour featuring the cities of Tokyo, Otsu and Osaka, the company is giving nine performances of Beauty and the Beast and of Delibes' Coppelia.
 
 
 
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