Toyonaka

[ taw-yaw-nah-kah ]

noun

1. a city on S Honshu, in Japan, N of Osaka.

Example Sentences

Tsukamoto kindergarten in Toyonaka, Osaka prefecture, sent a letter to parents in which it described Korean residents of Japan and Chinese people as having “wicked ideas,” using a derogatory term for Chinese.

From Washington Post

A neighboring, slightly larger plot of land was sold to the city of Toyonaka to build a park for $12.5 million — 10 times the amount the school paid — in 2010.

From Washington Post

In comparison, a neighboring plot only slightly larger was bought by the local municipality, Toyonaka City, for 1.4 billion yen in 2010.

From New York Times

But for 5 days every month, Earth’s magnetosphere passes over the moon, shielding it from the solar particles and allowing slower-speed particles from Earth to take their place, says Kentaro Terada, a cosmochemist at Osaka University in Toyonaka, Japan.

From Science Magazine

“Is that real?” gasped one sixth grader, 12, from Toyonaka in Osaka Prefecture, as he walked up to the display.

From New York Times