Yawata

American  

[yah-wah-tah] / ˈyɑ wɑˌtɑ /

Japanese Yahata

noun

1. Kitakyushu

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Example Sentences

“Today it is quite difficult for foreigners to get ... jobs as security guards,” said Shigeki Yawata, security manager at security firm Executive Protection Inc, which has employed non-Japanese for more than a dozen years.

From Reuters

On June 15, 1944, a squadron of 75 American Superfortress B-29s left China to destroy the Imperial Iron and Steel Works in Yawata, Japan.

From The Wall Street Journal

The 47 bombers that made it to Yawata dropped more than 365 bombs.

From The Wall Street Journal

For the rest of the war, the city of Yawata was firebombed in an unsuccessful campaign to destroy the iron and steel works.

From The Wall Street Journal

A B-29 carrying the atomic bomb Fat Man made runs over Yawata, but thick smoke from the ground made targeting impossible, and the bombers headed to the next target on the list, the Mitsubishi Steel and Arms Works in Nagasaki.

From The Wall Street Journal