akita

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With a record 13 people killed this year in Japan, the professor of emergency and critical medicine at Akita University Hospital advises what to do in an encounter.

From Barron's • Nov. 8, 2025

Another comment that resonated came from Donald’s older sister, Akita.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 16, 2024

The cause of the accident at the facility in Akita Prefecture, northeastern Japan, was still being investigated, the agency, JAXA, said.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 14, 2023

Hachiko was born in November 1923 in the city of Odate in Akita prefecture, the original home of Akitas.

From BBC • Jul. 1, 2023

About fifty important operations are annually performed under chloroform, but the people of Akita ken are very conservative, and object to part with their limbs and to foreign drugs.

From Unbeaten Tracks in Japan by Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy)