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Okazaki - definition of Okazaki in Encyclopedia (81 words) |
 | Okazaki (岡崎市; -shi) is a city located in the Mikawa region of Aichi, Japan. |
 | As of 2003, the city has an estimated population of 345,490 and a density of 1,522.18 persons per km². |
 | The city is centred around Okazaki Castle, the birthplace of Tokugawa Ieyasu. |
| Okazaki, Aichi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (483 words) |
 | Okazaki (岡崎市; -shi) is a city located in Aichi Prefecture (愛知県/Aichi-ken) on the main island (本州/Honshū) of Japan (日本/Nihon). |
 | Okazaki enjoys a long history, and a special notoriety for being the birthplace of Tokugawa Ieyasu (徳川家康), who was the founder of the Tokugawa Shogunate (徳川幕府/Tokugawa Bakufu), a military dictatorship that ruled Japan from 1600 until the Meiji Restoration (明治維新/Meiji ishin) in 1868. |
 | Okazaki is of course also accessible by an number of roads, and driving/traffic conditions are comparable to that of an average urban/sub-urban American city; not at all as cumbersome as driving in Tokyo (東京/Tōkyō). |