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Hofu

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Hofu (hō`f), city (1990 pop. 117,634), Yamaguchi prefecture, SW Honshu, Japan, on the Suo Sea. It is a center of chemical industries producing artificial fibers, liquors, and medicines. It also has significant textile and food processing industries.


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Due to the bad weather, Prime Minister Taro Aso canceled a trip to areas in Hofu, Yamaguchi Prefecture, which were stricken with downpours earlier this week, including a nursing home for the elderly where six people were killed in a mudslide.
Aso had planned a helicopter inspection of disaster-hit Hofu city in Yamaguchi prefecture, where a series of landslides and floods due to torrential rain killed 14 people early in the week.
On Tuesday a mudslide hit a nursing home in Hofu city killing three people, as the ground floor of the two-story building was inundated.
 
 
 
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