due to a

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deal with

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construction company ''Paloma'', is a rugby stadium in

Nagoya is the largest city in the Chūbu region, the fourth-most populous city and third most populous urban area in Japan, with a population of 2.3million in 2020. Located on the Pacific coast in central Honshu, it is the capital and the most po ...

, Japan. It is currently used mostly for

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matches. The stadium holds 15,000 people and was built in 1941.

Overview

It was formerly known as Nagoya Mizuho Rugby Stadium (名古屋市瑞穂公園ラグビー場). Since April 2015 it has been called Paloma Mizuho Rugby Stadium for the

. It's also used by

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, a rugby union team in the

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