Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A city of central Honshu, Japan, north-northwest of Nagoya. A major textile center since the tenth century, it was rebuilt after a disastrous earthquake in June 1948.
- Kenichi,Japanese chemist. He shared a 1981 Nobel Prize for applying quantum-mechanics theories to the analysis of chemical reactions.
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- proper noun Fukui Prefecture of Central Japan
- proper noun a city in Fukui Prefecture
- proper noun A
surname .
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Examples
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FUKUI — The motorcade of the all-white Panawave cult returned to its Fukui headquarters Friday, a day after their predicted — then postponed — doomsday passed without incident.
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The university in Fukui has come up with a solution -- bluegill burgers.
Japanese Bluegill Burger Bonanza Tim Romano 2007
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Orbital interaction and symmetry relations between molecules or parts of molecules are fundamental concepts in Fukui's and Hoffmann's theories.
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Proud to be a busybody matchmaker, Juryo belongs to a 200-member women’s group in Fukui which makes door-to-door visits to single people’s homes in a bid to marry them off and raise the birth rate of the sleepy prefecture in western Japan.
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But as it happened, that is just a layover town to our going to Kanazawa, so we just have to leave Tokyo a little earlier and go up the line to the next available hotel….which is 90 minutes up the line at the town of Fukui which is famous for…..having a nuclear power plant.
Archive 2008-03-01 Elizabeth McClung 2008
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But as it happened, that is just a layover town to our going to Kanazawa, so we just have to leave Tokyo a little earlier and go up the line to the next available hotel….which is 90 minutes up the line at the town of Fukui which is famous for…..having a nuclear power plant.
Irritable, snappish, fretting, & trip planning: Linda and I act like humans Elizabeth McClung 2008
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She then came into contact with professional paper artisans in the washi-making town of Imadate in Fukui Prefecture.
Steve Beimel: Meetings With Remarkable People in Japan: Eriko Horiki -- Pioneer on the Washi Frontier Steve Beimel 2011
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She then came into contact with professional paper artisans in the washi-making town of Imadate in Fukui Prefecture.
Steve Beimel: Meetings With Remarkable People in Japan: Eriko Horiki -- Pioneer on the Washi Frontier Steve Beimel 2011
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Perhaps someone at Drawn and Quarterly or some intrepid soul on the Internet can put up an online appendix that sheds a little more light on authors like Eiichi Fukui and Masahiko Matsumoto.
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I was born in 1921 in Tokyo and grew up in the provincial city of Fukui.
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