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Nishinomiya

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Nishinomiya (nē'shēnō`mēä), city (1990 pop. 426,909), Hyogo prefecture, S Honshu, Japan, on Osaka Bay. It produces a famous sake. Its industry, located mostly along the coast, produces metals, machinery, chemicals, and rubber goods. Nishinomiya is a resort, as well as the site of several temples that were founded in the 7th and 8th cent. Kobe Women's College is in the city.
Nishinomiya
an industrial city in central Japan, on S Honshu, northwest of Osaka. Pop.: 436 877 (2002 est.)

Nishinomiya 

a city in Japan, in the southern part of Honshu Island, in Hyogo Prefecture. Population, 378,000 (1971). An important transportation center, the city is an industrial suburb of Osaka. Textiles and foodstuffs are produced; Nishinomiya is a major center for the production of fine sake. Optical and precision instruments and aircraft are also manufactured there.



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AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY Hiroyuki FUJIOKA Employment Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Hyogo College of Medicine, Nishinomiya, Japan Degree MD Research interests General orthopaedics, hand surgery, sports medicine.
In one attack, a reporter was killed and another was injured when a masked man sprayed shotgun fire at a local Asahi bureau in Nishinomiya near Osaka.
He embarked on the three-month voyage from his hometown of Nishinomiya near Kobe despite breaking Japanese law, which did not allow its citizens to sail on their own out of the country, and without a passport or money.
 
 
 
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