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Kokura

a former city in SW Japan, on N Kyushu: merged with adjacent townships in 1963 to form the new city of Kitakyushu
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Kokura

 

a city in Japan; since 1963, Kokura has been administratively part of the city of Kitakyushu, in Fukuoka Prefecture. A coal energy combine and enterprises for ferrous metallurgy, machine construction, chemistry, electrical engineering, textiles, and printing are there.

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Bullet trains connecting Osaka and Kokura in the west were suspended and hundreds of domestic flights were grounded.
And within just a few days after this mayhem, the second atomic bombing of Japan occurred as an American B-29 bomber headed for the city of Kokura, but because of poor visibility then chose a secondary target, Nagasaki killing an estimated 70,000 persons and destroying about half the city.
Kokura, the castle town, was spared because of the clouds that covered it.
Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt said Iran was "almost certainly" involved in Thursday's strikes on the Norwegianowned Front Altair and the Japaneseowned Kokura Courageous.
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Washington has blamed Tehran for attacks on two oil tankers - the Kokura Courageous and Norwegian-owned Front Altair - which rattled global oil markets amid escalating tensions between the two nations.
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