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Yawata

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

noun

  1. Kitakyushu


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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.

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Japan's steel industry is dominated by six big firms led by Yawata Iron & Steel, under President Arakazu Ojima, who wants the industry to curb its headlong overexpansion, work at more economy.

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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.

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"There is plenty of room for American companies to take advantage of their strength in semiconductor design," says Keiske Yawata, chief executive of LSI Logic's branch in Japan.

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On June 1, with the approval of Japan's rather toothless antitrust watchdog, the Fair Trade Commission, Fuji and Yawata will form the New Japan Steel Co., the world's second largest steel company after U.S.

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