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Kiryu

 

a city in Japan, in the central part of Honshu Island, on the Watarase River, in Gumma Prefecture. Population, 133,-000 (1970). Railroad junction. It is one of Japan’s oldest and largest centers for the production of silk products. There is food-processing industry. Kiryu also has a plant for the manufacture of automatic scales and other commercial equipment.

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