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Japan: Nagoya attractions in 1900, the Asahi Red Light District.

Japan: Nagoya attractions in 1900, the Asahi Red Light District.

Nagoya is the third-largest city and the fourth most populous urban area in Japan. Located on the Pacific coast in the Chūbu region of central Honshū, it is the capital of Aichi Prefecture and is one of Japan's major ports along with those of Tokyo, Osaka, Kobe, Yokohama, Chiba, and Moji. It is also the center of Japan's third largest metropolitan region, known as the Chūkyō Metropolitan Area. As of 2000, Chūkyō Metropolitan Area had 8.74 million people, of which 2.17 million lived in the city of Nagoya.

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