Kanagawa
Proper noun
Meaning
Kanagawa
A prefecture of Japan.
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According to the MPD, more than 10 similar cases have been confirmed in Tokyo and its neighboring prefectures, including Kanagawa and Chiba, since late August.
Already events are moving beyond the control of the old order: the two men pass a Madam instructing her inexperienced Girls in the art of seduction as they prepare for the arrival of the foreign devils ("Welcome to Kanagawa").
Harwood 2006, p. 128 In 1853 Commodore Perry of the US Navy arrived in Japan and brought an end to Japan's policy of self-isolation by forcing the Tokugawa shogunate to sign the Convention of Kanagawa the following year.
For example, in May 2005, a parlour in Kanagawa prefecture reported to the local police that someone had counterfeited their tokens and made off with the equivalent of US$60,000 in cash by trading them in at their nearby exchange centre.
Clusters are emerging in places and at a pace never before seen in Tokyo, Osaka, Aichi, Kanagawa, Hyogo and Ibaraki prefectures, among others.
How does that fit with Tokyo, Osaka, Hyogo, Hokkaido, Kanagawa, Saitama, Chiba, Fukuoka and Chiba?