Definition of kitakyushu Kitakyushu

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What does kitakyushu mean?

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kitakyushu - a Japanese city on northern Kyushu
		kyushu the southernmost of the four main islands of Japan; contains coal fields

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is a City designated by government ordinance in Fukuoka Prefecture, Kyūshū, Japan. It is a very important industrial city. It has steel factories, coal mines and car factories. In Japan it is an important city in reducing pollution. It also has an imortant recycling facility. Kitakyūshū has a population of almost one million people. It is on the main Shinkansen line between Fukuoka and Tokyo.

The city was named Kitakyūshū in 1963, after five cities, (Moji, Kokura, Tobata, Yahata and Wakamatsu) were made into one.

On[August 9, 1945, the United States Air Force planned to drop a nuclear bomb on Kokura. Because of smoke they could not bomb Kokura. The bomb was dropped on Nagasaki instead.