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Yawata

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

noun

  1. Kitakyushu


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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.

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

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.

From Time Magazine Archive

Under the presidency of Yoshihiro Inayama, now the chief of Yawata, the new company will employ 80,000 people in ten huge, highly integrated mills throughout Japan.

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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