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Kitakyushu

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Ki·ta·kyu·shu  (k-täky-sh)
A city of northern Kyushu, Japan, on the channel connecting the Inland Sea with the Korea Strait. It is one of Japan's most important manufacturing centers. Population: 991,000.

Kitakyushu [ˌkiːtəˈkjuːʃuː]
n
(Placename) a port in Japan, on N Kyushu: formed in 1963 by the amalgamation of the cities of Wakamatsu, Yahata, Tobata, Kokura, and Moji; one of Japan's largest industrial centres. Pop.: 1 019 562 (1995)
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Noun1.Kitakyushu - a Japanese city on northern Kyushu
Kyushu - the southernmost of the four main islands of Japan; contains coal fields
Nihon, Nippon, Japan - a constitutional monarchy occupying the Japanese Archipelago; a world leader in electronics and automobile manufacture and ship building


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Plans are to build the plant in the Hibikinada Industrial Area in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture.
In the fiscal year through March 2007, we expect to complete a production base in Mihara, Hiroshima Prefecture, for antiglare film used in thin televisions, and to build a second facility at our Kurosaki Plant in Kitakyushu (Fukuoka Prefecture) to reinforce color filter production capacity.
Japan Airlines and cargo startup Galaxy Airlines signed a codeshare agreement under which JAL will place its code on Galaxy flights from Tokyo Haneda to Kitakyushu and Naha.
 
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