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Maizuru
Port of Maizuru, Kyōto urban prefecture, Japan.
Maizuru
Japan
Maizuru, city, northern Kyōto fu (urban prefecture), west-central Honshu, Japan. It faces Wakasa Bay, an embayment of the Sea of Japan (East Sea).
The city—then called Tanabe—developed around a castle built during the Muromachi period (1338–1573). It has one of the best natural ports on the Sea of Japan coast and prospered as a naval port before World War II. The naval facilities were later converted to industrial use, producing ships, textiles, chemical products, and pottery. The city is also a base for the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force. In 1961 Maizuru became a sister city of Nakhodka, the civil port east of Vladivostok in Siberia (Russia), and regular service between the two was initiated. Pop. (2005) 91,733; (2010) 88,669.
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