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Naha

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Naha (nä`hä), city (1990 pop. 304,836), on Okinawa Okinawa (ō'kĭnä`wä), island (1990 pop.
..... Click the link for more information.  island, in the Ryukyu Islands, Japan. A port on the southwest coast, it is also the chief manufacturing center of the island. In 1853, Commodore Perry chose Naha as his first base for the penetration of Japan. The city was virtually destroyed during World War II. In 1945 it became the headquarters of the U.S. military governor of the Ryukyus, and when the island was returned to Japan in 1972, it became the capital of Okinawa prefecture. The name is also spelled Nafa and Nawa.


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Japan Airlines and cargo startup Galaxy Airlines signed a codeshare agreement under which JAL will place its code on Galaxy flights from Tokyo Haneda to Kitakyushu and Naha.
Air Cargo News by Airguide Online
From November 7, 2006 JAL will code share on Galaxy's flights between Tokyo's Haneda Airport and Kitakyushu Airport in northern Kyushu and between Haneda and Naha, Okinawa.
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Successive chapters then explore the devastation and the revival of Tokyo, Osaka, Naha, Nagaoka and Hiroshima in turn, paying close attention to the universal challenges of balancing the immediate physical demands of the surviving populace with urban planners' long-term visions for reconstruction.
Rebuilding Urban Japan After 1945 by Alexander, Jeff / Pacific Affairs
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