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is the capital city of Iwate Prefecture located in the Tohoku region of northern Japan. As of September 2015, the city had an estimated population of 299,169 and a population density of 337 persons per km. The total area was .
Morioka (written: 森岡 or 守岡) is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include:
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, Japanese boxer
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, Japanese swimmer
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, Japanese anime director and artist
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, Japanese writer
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, Peruvian-born Japanese futsal player
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, Japanese musician
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, Japanese racewalker
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, Japanese philosopher
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, Japanese footballer
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, Japanese baseball player
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, Japanese footballer
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, Japanese footballer
- Zak Morioka (born 1978), Brazilian racing driver
Morioka is the capital city of Iwate Prefecture located in the Tohoku region of northern Japan.
Morioka may also refer to:
- Morioka (surname), a Japanese surname
- Morioka Domain, a former subdivision of Japan
- Morioka University, a university in Takizawa, Iwate, Japan
Usage examples of "morioka".
It was Morioka, according to where I had been and the direction I had been going, but it very well might not have been.
If it was Morioka - I prayed for Morioka - it was only about seventy-five miles to the tip of the island, and a whole new game.
One keeps a yadoya in Kiyoto, another in Morioka, and the third and youngest is with him here.
At Morioka and several other villages in this region I noticed that if you see one large, high, well-built house, standing in enclosed grounds, with a look of wealth about it, it is always that of the sake brewer.
On the fourteenth night, the I-403 surfaced near the Aleutian island of Amchitka and quickly found the supply ship Morioka anchored in a small cove.