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Kokura

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

Kokura see Kitakyushu , Japan. Author not available, KOKURA., The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition 2008... Read more

Kitakyushu
...1963 by the union of the cities of Kokura, Moji, Tobata, Wakamatsu, and Yawata...materials and export manufactured goods. Kokura ward is the city's commercial and financial center. During World War II, Kokura was the site of a large arms factory... Read more

Nagasaki
...of TNT (see explosives ), and weighed 4,050 kg. (nearly 9,000 lb.). The aircraft's first target was the city of Kokura, now part of Kitakyushu, but as it was covered by heavy cloud the aircraft was diverted to its second target, Nagasaki. Unlike... Read more

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	Passengers walk past the scene of a stabbing at Kokura station ; Passengers walk past the scene of a stabbing at Kokura station in southern Japan. A 21-year-old man claiming to have received a divine message had attacked at least 13 people, including his father Photograph: AP Read more
	City remembers day it escaped the bomb ; The curator of Kokura Historical Museum points at a map on the...an imaginary map, showing the city of Kokura overlaid with concentric rings and blobs...of bomb' had fallen on Nagasaki." Today Kokura is a rather ordinary city, with a wide... Read more
	Cloud cover sealed fate of Nagasaki; answers to correspondants.(Letter to the Editor) ; ...of a different design. Its target was Kokura, a major industrial city in southern Japan...a flat plain, it was a perfect target. Kokura had already been heavily bombed with conventional...widespread damage - but this raid helped save Kokura from a worse fate. As Bock's Car arrived... Read more
	STAT'S LIFE; 10 Fastest Scheduled Rail Journeys.(News) ; 1 Japan, Hiroshima- Kokura - 162.6mph 2 France, Valence- Avignin - 161.1mph 3 International, Brussels- Valence - 150mph 4 Spain, Madrid-Seville 129.8mph 5... Read more
	A rain of ruin ; ...uranium bomb, the weather en route to Kokura, the primary target, was lousy, and the...pilot. His job was to get his B-29 to Kokura and make a clean drop from six miles up...The Great Artiste, and they headed for Kokura. What Sweeney didn't know was that the... Read more
	WORLD'S FASTEST TRAIN ; The West Japan Railway Co. said its Nozomi Series 500 recently averaged 163 miles per hour between Hiroshima and Kokura. That's the fastest ever, says the Guinness Book of Records, breaking the French TGV's record. / AFP FILE PHOTO Read more
	Ruta atómica: como todos los años por estas fechas, Japón y el mundo recuerdan el primer bombardeo nuclear de la historia. Algunas de las víctimas que salvaron la vida hablan del holocausto térmico.(TT: Atomic route: like every year around this time, Japan and the world remember the first nuclear bombing in history. Some of the victims who saved their lives talk about the thermal holocaust.) ; ...sus vigas retorcidas y cascotes amontonados. Kokura, 7 de agosto - ¿Qué haces en Kokura? Allí no hay nada -Hay algo que contar...243;mica y se salvó por los pelos En Kokura, a dos horas de Hiroshima en Shinkansen (tren... Read more
	Japan Racing Association.(Sports) ; ...current outbreak of equine influenza in the country. JRA cards are due to take place over the weekend at Sapporo, Niigata and Kokura. Only entries testing negative in widespread tests this week will be allowed to run, and they will be closely monitored until... Read more
	JAPAN STABBING ; Passengers walk past the area in Kokura where an unidentified 21-year-old man claiming to have received a message from God stabbed 13 people yesterday in a railway station... Read more
	Transport: Japan's trains take track record ; ...fastest passenger carriages in the world, according to a global survey by Railway Gazette. The 120-mile stretch from Hiroshima to Kokura takes only 44 minutes as Japanese travellers are propelled at more than 160mph on the shinkansen. The French TGV, for 15 years... Read more

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