Wakayama
Proper noun
Meaning
A prefecture of Japan.
A city, capital of Wakayama prefecture, Japan.
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Seattle Mariners special assistant Ichiro Suzuki concluded his high school coaching debut on Friday after three days as a special instructor with schoolboy baseball powerhouse Chiben Wakayama in western Japan.
Scientists examining Pacific bluefin tuna () at a tuna ranch at the Wakayama prefecture, Japan came across some unfamiliar-looking flukes living in the heart of the tunas, which they described and named Cardicola orientalis in this study.
“The time he spent with us was like a dream,” Chiben Wakayama manager Jin Nakatani, a former pro ballplayer, said.
The municipal government of Yuasa, Wakayama Prefecture, has been receiving a flurry of inquiries related to its return gifts given to people making donations to the town under the country’s hometown tax donation program.
Wakayama Women's Prison, for example, is home to a six-foot-tall mandarin orange named Waka-P (an abbreviation of the prison's name).