==History== Kokura obtained municipality status in 1900. When the city of Kitakyushu was created in 1963, it was divided into Kokura Kita ward in the north, and Kokura Minami ward in the south. The Ogasawara and Hosokawa clans were Daimyos at Kokura castle. ==17th century== Miyamoto Musashi, samurai swordman, author of The Book of Five Rings and f...
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(from the article `Kita-Kysh`) ...and is a major coal port for northern Kyushu. Tobata is one of the main deep-sea fishing bases of western Japan, has a large output of cotton ... ...at 350,000; of these, 140,000 died by the end of the year. The second weapon, a duplicate of the plutonium-239 implosion assembly tested in ... [2 relat...
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