Yahata, Fukuoka
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Yahata (八幡市 Yahata-shi) was a city in Japan until it was absorbed into the newly created city of Kitakyushu in 1963.[1] Its former area is as of 2007 part of two distinct wards: Yahata Higashi-ku and Yahata Nishi-ku.
The city was fire-bombed in World War II in early August 1945, and the resulting smoke obscured the nearby town of Kokura; causing the planes en route to drop the atomic weapon "Fat Man" to head to their secondary target, Nagasaki.
[edit] See also
- Yawata, Kyoto (city with same kanji name)
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