Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A city of northwest Honshu, Japan, on the Sea of Japan north-northwest of Tokyo. It is a leading port with a major chemical industry.
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- proper noun a capital city of Niigata
prefecture ,Japan .
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Examples
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"Abduction: The Megumi Yokota Story is an engrossing nonfiction detective tale about the 13-year-old girl of the title, who vanished on the way home from school in Niigata, Japan, in 1977," writes Matt Zoller Seitz in the New York Times.
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And indeed, the latest we have is that another earthquake has happened west of Niigata, which is on the Sea of Japan.
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The Niigata of the Government, with its signs of progress in a western direction, is quite unattractive-looking as compared with the genuine Japanese Niigata, which is the neatest, cleanest, and most comfortable-looking town I have yet seen, and altogether free from the jostlement of a foreign settlement.
Unbeaten Tracks in Japan Isabella Lucy 2004
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Our orders directed a stop at a port called Niigata, on the west coast of Nippon.
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Other prefectures such as Niigata also think of merging with their capitals.
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Niigata prefecture in northern Japan didn't measure radioactive iodine and cesium from three products, including spinach and strawberries.
Radioactive Contamination Levels Drop in Japan Hiroyuki Kachi 2011
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Only two years after TEPCO was allowed to restart its boiling water reactors, an earthquake in 2007 forced the company to admit its reactor in the Niigata Chuetsu-Oki region was not built to withstand such tremors.
Jeffrey Rubin: Is Nature Trying to Tell Us Something? Jeffrey Rubin 2011
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Similar rapid trends have affected Niigata Prefecture, a rice-growing center, and the Sanriku Oki area, one of the finest fishing grounds in the world.
An Immigration Stimulus for Japan Hidenori Sakanaka 2011
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On Saturday morning, the captains and crew were being taken to the port city of Niigata.
Japan Arrests Chinese Fishing Captains Mari Iwata 2011
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That may raise questions about the fate of other nuclear power facilities which critics say face similar quake-proofing issues, such as Onagawa plant in Miyagi prefecture that was shut down by the March 11 temblor and Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant in Niigata prefecture, which was damaged by a 2007 earthquake.
Japan to Shut a Second Plant Chester Dawson 2011
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