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Niihama

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Niihama (nē`hämä), city (1990 pop. 129,149), Ehime prefecture, N Shikoku, Japan. It is a commercial port and a manufacturing and mining center, producing copper and chemical products.
Niihama 

a city and port in Japan, located in the northern part of Shikoku Island in Ehime Prefecture, on the Inland Sea of Japan. Population, 126,000 (1970). Niihama produces chemicals and machine tools; a petrochemicals combine, a copper smelter, and an alumina plant also operate there. Copper from the Besshiyama mines, located south of Niihama, is exported through the port.



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Earlier in the day, investigators from the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors and the Tokyo Customs jointly raided Kyochiku's head office and Sogabe's home in Niihama in the same prefecture.
Typhoon Aere has also affected western Japan, with the Ehime Prefecture city of Niihama issuing evacuation orders to about 3,800 people due to downpours.
The new company, called STI Technology, will produce the 10-inch-diagonal color filters using the pigment-contained color photoresist method at a manufacturing facility to be constructed within the confines of Sumitomo Chemical's Ehime Works in Niihama, Ehime Prefecture.
 
 
 
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