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is the capital city of Miyagi Prefecture, Japan, and the largest city in the Tōhoku region, and the second largest city north of Tokyo. In 2010, the city had a population of one million, and was one of Japan's 20 designated cities. The city was founded in 1600 by the daimyo Date Masamune, and is nicknamed the ; there are about 60 zelkova trees on and .
In the summer, the Sendai Tanabata Festival, the largest Tanabata festival in Japan, is held. In winter, the trees are decorated with thousands of lights for the Pageant of Starlight (光のページェント), lasting through most of December.
On March 11, 2011, coastal areas of the city suffered catastrophic damage from a magnitude 9.0 offshore earthquake which triggered a destructive tsunami.
Sendai is the capital city of Miyagi Prefecture, Japan.
Sendai may also refer to:
- Sendai Station (Miyagi), railway station in Miyagi, Japan
- Sendai Station (Kagoshima), railway station in Kagoshima, Japan
- Sendai Domain, former Japanese domain of the Edo period
- Sendai Airport, airport in Sendai
- Sendai Nuclear Power Plant, located near Satsumasendai, Kagoshima
- Sendai class cruiser, Japanese cruiser class
- Japanese cruiser Sendai, Japanese cruiser
- Sendai virus, a parainfluenza virus
- 3133 Sendai, asteroid
- Sendai University, a private university
- Sendai Sachiko, Japanese professional wrestler
- Sendai Girls' Pro Wrestling, a Japanese women's professional wrestling league
Usage examples of "sendai".
A number of the townsmen who had accompanied Aliat this far had returned to Sendai, but several friends remained with him.
Aliat and his townsmen begged for time to return to Sendai and bring back merchandise of their own.
The best of 20 fifth-grade classrooms in Minneapolis was outpaced by every one of 20 classrooms in Sendai, Japan, and 19 out of 20 in Taipei, Taiwan.
Tuesday, 20 February USS Monroe, CVN 81 Off Sendai, Japan Murdock and his platoon settled into quarters on board the big aircraft carrier as it plowed north in moderate seas toward the Tsugaru Strait between the northern Japanese Island of Hokkaido and the big island of Honshu.
The carrier had been off Sendai steaming south when word came from CINCPAC to reverse directions.
A short distance over shingle brought us to this Japanese village of sixty-three houses, a colonisation settlement, mainly of samurai from the province of Sendai, who are raising very fine crops on the sandy soil.
I am a councillor of the Prince of Sendai, and my master bids me beg you, as you must be worn out after all you have undergone, to come in and partake of such poor refreshment as we can offer you.
So the forty-seven Ronins went into the palace, and were feasted with gruel and wine, and all the retainers of the Prince of Sendai came and praised them.
And, after returning many thanks to their hosts, they left the palace of the Prince of Sendai and hastened to Sengakuji, where they were met by the abbot of the monastery, who went to the front gate to receive them, and led them to the tomb of Takumi no Kami.
Senator Sendai, Katherine had realized that Hermes Aldaran was unlike any man she had ever known or was ever likely to know.
Kondo now adopted a typically Japanese battle plan, splitting his 14-ship task force four ways, moving up big units at flank speed while Sendai shadowed Lee.
They wore ceremonial fringe and silk ropes around their waists, and brocade aprons that sported the family crests of the lords of Kishu, Izumo, Sanuki, Awa, Karima, Sendai, or Nambu.
Light cruiser Sendai and 20 destroyers formed a circular screen around the battleship group at a distance of 1,500 meters.
There had been a shooting in Sendai, a bank employee critically wounded by an unknown assailant.