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Akashi

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Akashi (ä'kä`shē), city (1990 pop. 270,722), Hyogo prefecture, W Honshu, Japan, on the Harima Sea and the Akashi Channel. Overfishing and marine pollution have hurt what was formerly an important fishing port. Akashi now has a productive heavy steel industry, which dates back to the Korean War.


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, Kusa no ne no kokusai koryu to kokusai kyoryoku [Grassroots International Exchange and International Cooperation] (Tokyo: Akashi Shoten, 2003); Glenda Roberts, "NGO support for migrant labor in Japan," in Mike Douglass and Glenda Roberts, eds.
) Akashi S, Joh K, Tsuji A, Ito H, Hoshi H, Hayakawa T, et al.
April 2003 will see the birth of Seiko PMC, the merger of Nippon PMC, Osaka, Japan, a leading chemical supplier, and Seiko Chemicals, Akashi, Japan.
 
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