Look up: Hiroshima

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   Hiroshima
   Hiroshima is an industrial city and port on the south coast of Honshu, Japan. It was destroyed on the 6th of August 1945 when it was the target of the first atomic bomb.
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   Hiroshima
   [n] - a city on the southwestern coast of Honshu Island in Japan
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   Hiroshima
   Industrial city and port on the south coast of Honshu Island, Japan; population (1994) 1,077,000. On 6 August 1945 it was destroyed by the first wartime use of an atomic bomb. The city has been...
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   Hiroshima
   The Japanese city of is the capital of Hiroshima Prefecture, and the largest city in the Chugoku region of western Honshu, the largest of Japan's islands. It is most known throughout the world as the first city in history subjected to nuclear warfare with the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in World War II by the United States of America. Hiroshima gained municipality status on April 1, 1889 and was designated on April 1, 1980 by gover...
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   Hiroshima
   (from the article `American literature`) One positive result of the accelerating complexity of post-World War II life was a body of distinguished journalism and social commentary. John ... ...books demonstrated his gift for combining a reporter`s skill for relaying facts with imaginative fictionalization. Both The Wall (1950), about the...
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   Hiroshima
   ken (prefecture), southwestern Honshu, occupying an area of 3,269 square miles (8,467 square km). The Chgoku Mountains run along the northern ...
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   Hiroshima
   city and capital of Hiroshima ken (prefecture), southwestern Honshu, Japan, on Hiroshima Bay of the Inland Sea. The city is situated on the delta of ... [10 related articles]
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   Hiroshima
   Hiroshima (hir"ōshē'mu, hērō'shmä) , city (1990 pop. 1,085,705), capital of Hiroshima prefecture, SW Honshu, Japan, on Hiroshima Bay. It is an important commercial and industrial center manufacturing trucks, ships, automobiles, steel, rubber, furniture, and c...
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