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. |
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Japanese chemist. He shared a 1981 Nobel Prize for applying quantum-mechanics theories to the analysis of chemical reactions. |
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