Yamato
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Yamato is the name of several places, times and things:

• Yamato, Kanagawa, Japan
• Yamato, Fukushima, Japan
• Yamato, Ibaraki, Japan
• Yamato, Kanagawa, Japan
• Yamato, Niigata, Japan
• Yamato, Yamanashi, Japan
• Yamato, Gifu, Japan
• Yamato, Yamaguchi, Japan
• Yamato, Fukuoka, Japan
• Yamato, Saga, Japan
• Yamato, Kagoshima, Japan
• Wako, Saitama, Japan (former name)
• Higashiyamato, Tokyo, Japan (former name)
• former Yamato Province of Japan
• whole Japan (archaic)
• Yamato period in Japanese history
• Yamato battleship

Yamato is usually written as "大和", but these two characters can also be read as "Daiwa" or "Taiwa". So "Yamato" is often used to erroneously refer to following things:

• Daiwa, Hiroshima
• Daiwa, Shimane
• Taiwa, Miyagi
• Daiwa Bank (infamous by its bond scandal)

Other places named Yamato are: (link as completed)

• Yamato, Yamanasho

The original article can be found at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamato.
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