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Kurume

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Kurume (kr`mā), city (1990 pop. 228,347), Fukuoka prefecture, W Kyushu, Japan, on the Chikugo Plain. It is a commercial and agricultural center and manufactures rubber and cotton goods. Kurume is a former castle town.
Kurume 

a city in Japan, southwest of Kyushu Island, situated on the Chikugo River in the Fukuoka Prefecture. Population, 192,400 (1970). It is an old center of the hand-woven cotton industry, producing the high-quality “Kurume” fabrics. The city also manufactures electrical machines, gourmet dairy foods, radiotechnological apparatus, chemicals, and tires.
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Haruyo Hara was convicted at the Fukuoka District Court's Kurume branch of consensual murder for knocking out the daughter with sleeping pills and strangling her in July last year at their home in an attempted murder-suicide case.
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This summer, residents of Kurume in western Japan sought court help to evict a yakuza gang from a local apartment block, saying the ever-present threat of violence infringed on their constitutional right to live in peace.
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