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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A city of southern Honshu, Japan, east-southeast of Nagoya. It is an industrial and transportation center.
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A video clip from a Fuji TV news report narrates the story of Sidival Furuzawa Pereira, a homeless man in Hamamatsu, Japan.
Global Voices in English » Global Recession: The world is talking. Are we listening? 2009
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Electronic music godfather Robert Moog playing an early prototype of the reactable at the NIME conference 2004 in Hamamatsu, Japan.
Boing Boing 2007
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I'm looking for an inn called Hamamatsu‑‑that's a name with really common characters, ‘beach 'and‘pine tree'‑‑and there it is right there,” John said triumphantly, pointing to a weathered plastic sign hanging in front of a nondescript house.
Relativity 2009
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The company said it will suspend operations at plants in Tochigi, Sayama, Hamamatsu and Suzuka but will operate its motorcycle plant in Kumamoto in western Japan.
Quake Halts Output Across Japan Hiroyuki Kachi 2011
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Typhoon Roke first made landfall in the tourist town of Hamamatsu in Shizuoka prefecture at about 2 p.m. local time Wednesday, knocking over trucks and ripping roofs from homes, then crawled up Japan's Honshu island.
Storm Strikes Central Japan Yoree Koh 2011
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But the company is considering resuming operations at its Ogawa, Tochigi and Hamamatsu plants, which make parts for four-wheeled vehicles sometime this week, depending on the status of parts procurement, the Honda spokeswoman said.
Toyota, Honda Delay Plant Restarts to Weekend Yoshio Takahashi 2011
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Born in 1906, Honda apprenticed in auto repair shops before opening his own garage in Hamamatsu, Japan, in 1928.
Sunday Reading 2009
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Lenzabile approves of this comment by the Mayor of Hamamatsu City as convincing and practical criticism: “We need to put our heads together and come up with ideas, such as allowing reentry once recipients have repaid their travel expenses”.
Global Voices in English » Japan: For the Price of a Plane Ticket…? 2009
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Nearly 18,000 foreigners live in the industrial city of Hamamatsu -- and many work in the city's factories.
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As the good news spread at Suzuki's headquarters in Hamamatsu, industry watchers pondered the defeat of Toyota's legendary compact -- a car that captured its first sales title in 1969, the year Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, and held it for the next 29 years.
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