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Yawata

American  
[yah-wah-tah] / ˈjɑ wɑˌtɑ /
Japanese Yahata

noun

  1. Kitakyushu


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Fuji and Yawata together account for 34% of Japan's burgeoning steel production.

From Time Magazine Archive

Yawata Iron & Steel Co. is supplying 49% of the capital for a $16 million steel mill in Malaya.

From Time Magazine Archive

At the same time, the old government monopoly, Japan Steel & Iron Co., was broken up into Yawata Iron & Steel Co. and Fuji Iron & Steel Co., currently Japan's two largest producers.

From Time Magazine Archive

"World thinking is rapidly shifting," said Managing Director Heigo Fuji of Yawata Steel, Japan's biggest steelmakers.

From Time Magazine Archive

The first B-29 mission against Japan was flown June 15, 1944, when 68 planes from Chengtu, deep in China, bombed the Yawata Steel Works on Kyushu.

From Time Magazine Archive

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