KOBE, Japan - it all began at a high school volleyball tournament here on May 2 - or so residents of this Japanese port city suspect.

日本，神户———这个港口城市的日本居民大概在怀疑着这一切开始于五月二日开幕的中学排球联赛。

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Nagoya-Osaka-Kyoto-Kobe, Japan, expected to grow to 60 million people by 2015;

名古屋-大阪-京都-神户，日本，到2015年有望突破6000万人口

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Then in 1992, China formally requested access to the international Internet at the annual international Internet meeting held in Kobe, Japan. This was accomplished in 1994.

1992年在日本神户的国际互联网年会上，中国正式提出要求连入国际互联网，但到1994年才得以实现。

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His parents named him after the famous beef of Kobe,Japan.

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The team selected wild ants from the main European super-colony, from another smaller one called the Catalonian super-colony which lives on the Iberian coast, the Californian super-colony and from the super-colony in west Japan, as well as another in Kobe, Japan.

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In 1995, I was a volunteer in the disaster area following the Great Hanshin Earthquake in Kobe, Japan.

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Fujitsu's K computer at the Riken Advanced Institute for Computational Science in Kobe, Japan, which was in third spot.

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