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  • proper noun A city in north-eastern Osaka, founded in 1947.

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Examples

  • Agence France-Presse/Getty Images Women sort fish Tuesday at the Hirakata Fish Market in Kitaibaraki for the first time since the March 11 earthquake and tsunami disaster.

    Tiny Fish Spur Widening Worry Juro Osawa 2011

  • Testing of sand-lance samples from a fishermen's group in the northern town of Hirakata also showed they contained 4,080 becquerel per kilogram of iodine-131.

    BusinessWeek.com -- Top News 2011

  • Testing of sand-lance samples from fishermen's group in the northern town of Hirakata also showed they contained 4,080 becquerel per kilogram of iodine-131.

    BusinessWeek.com -- Top News 2011

  • In an hour-long class at the Shisei and Sports Club Big Es Kuzuha in the city of Hirakata, more than a dozen students repeat a regimen of slow moves, sometimes twisting their bodies while lying on the floor and at other times bending their elbows as they kneel and lean all the way forward.

    Japan News latest RSS headlines - The Japan News.Net 2010

  • The robbery took place at around 8: 40 p.m. as the manager, 37, and one of his employees, 28, were trying to deposit the money into a night safe in the Hirakata branch of Kyoto Shinkin Bank.

    Japan Today: Japan News and Discussion 2009

  • Two men robbed a food shop manager and employee carrying a plastic bag with about 2 million yen in cash at a bank Tuesday night, but dropped the bag in a street when they hit a cyclist as they ran away in Hirakata, Osaka Prefecture, police said Wednesday.

    Japan Today: Japan News and Discussion 2009

  • The interior of 'Exciting Omega' in Hirakata, Osaka, got a most glamourous redesign including chandeliers.

    PingMag - The Tokyo-based magazine about "Design and Making Things" 2008

  • The interior of 'Exciting Omega' in Hirakata, Osaka, got a most glamourous redesign including chandeliers.

    PingMag - The Tokyo-based magazine about "Design and Making Things" 2008

  • The interior of 'Exciting Omega' in Hirakata, Osaka, got a most glamourous redesign including chandeliers.

    PingMag - The Tokyo-based magazine about "Design and Making Things" 2008

  • See, for example, Konosuke Matsushita: His Life and Thoughts Hirakata, Japan: The Overseas Training Center, Matsushita Electric, February 1983, p.

    Matsushita Leadership John P. Kotter 1997

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