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Kokura (小倉市,
Kokura-shi) is an
ancient castle town and the
center of
modern Kitakyushu, ****an.
Kokura is also the name of the
penultimate station on the...
- region.
Kokura Prefecture was
founded separately from ****uoka
Prefecture in 1871 when the clan
system was abolished. The old wooden-built
Kokura Prefectural...
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Kokura Castle (小倉城,
Kokura-jō) is a
castle in Kitakyushu, ****an. It was
built by
Hosokawa Tadaoki starting in 1602, with
construction completed in 1608...
- of what used to be
Kokura City
before the
merger of five
cities to
create the new city of Kitakyūshū in 1963. JR Kyūshū's
Kokura Station is the main...
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Kokura Station (小倉駅,
Kokura-eki) in Kokurakita-ku is the main
railway station in Kitakyushu, ****an. It is part of the JR
Kyushu network and the San'yō...
- to be
Kokura City,
which was
merged into Kitakyūshū city when the
latter was
created out of the
merger of five
cities in 1963. At this time
Kokura was divided...
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attack as the
weather reconnaissance aircraft for the
primary target of
Kokura.
Clouds and
drifting smoke resulted in Nagasaki, a
secondary target, being...
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Kokura Airport (小倉空港,
Kokura Kūkō),
previously called Kitakyūshū
Airport (北九州空港, Kitakyūshū Kūkō)
until 2006, was a
small airport in
Kokura Minami-ku...
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chief of
staff of the U.S. Army, for
atomic bombs to be used on Hiroshima,
Kokura, Niigata, and Nagasaki.
These targets were
chosen because they were large...
- government. The
Kokura Line (小倉線,
Kokura-sen) is the only line. It runs the 8.8 km (5.5 mi)
between Kokura station and
Kikugaoka station in
Kokura Minami ward...
