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Funabashi

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[foo-nah-bah-shee] / ˌfu nɑˈbɑ ʃi /

noun

  1. a city in E central Honshu, Japan, on Tokyo Bay.


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“Unfortunately, it’s an arms race,” said Yoichi Funabashi, founder of the Asia Pacific Initiative, part of the International House of Japan, a Tokyo think tank.

From Washington Post • Jan. 11, 2023

When Stern asked her about working with Zando, Waithe developed the idea for an imprint, Hillman Grad Books, which she will lead with Rishi Rajani and Naomi Funabashi, executives at Waithe’s production company, Hillman Grad.

From New York Times • Sep. 21, 2021

"Funassyi, the anarchic pear fairy from Funabashi city, is equally popular, and is an unofficial mascot," the mascot man says.

From BBC • Sep. 20, 2019

“Japan’s biggest weakness—its closed labor market—actually has benefited Japan very much in a paradoxical way,” said Yoichi Funabashi, who heads a private think tank in Tokyo.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jul. 10, 2016

Rokurobei, seeing that there was no help for it, went back to the village of Funabashi and communicated to the others what had occurred.

From Tales of Old Japan by Redesdale, Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford, Baron