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Yamato
Japan
Yamato, city, Kanagawa ken (prefecture), Honshu, Japan, in the eastern part of the Sagamihara Plateau. During the Tokugawa period (1603β1867) it was a local trade centre for the surrounding sericultural region. An air base of the Imperial Japanese Army, established in the city in 1942, was taken over by U.S. occupation forces after World War II. The city has rapidly industrialized since 1955, producing vehicles, machinery, and records. It is connected by rail to the Tokyo-Yokohama metropolitan area. Pop. (2005) 221,220; (2010) 228,186.
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