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Tsuchiura

Tsuchiura (tsoochē'OOrä) [key], city (1990 pop. 127,471), Ibaraki prefecture, central Honshu, Japan. A suburb of the Tokyo-Yokohama Metropolitan Area, it is a commercial and cultural center.

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