NAGOYA--Mayor Takashi Kawamura apologized for ... man during a public forum held to discuss plans to rebuild Nagoya Castle. Kawamura said at a news conference on June 5 that he should have acted ...

NAGOYA--In an apparent contradiction with Japan’s pacifist Constitution ... During World War II, the keep of Nagoya Castle was burnt down in a U.S. air raid on that day in 1945.

[6] Historians suggest the castle’s design drew heavily from Nagoya Castle ... people to settle in the Tohoku region of northern Japan. (ii) Morioka Castle is near the Kitakami River.