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Tagawa
Japan
Also known as: Takawa
Tagawa, city, Fukuoka ken (prefecture), Kyushu, Japan, on the upper Onga River. It was a farm village until the systematic exploitation of nearby coalfields began after 1900. Tagawa was the largest mining town in the Chikuhō coalfield region until 1970, when the last of the mines was closed. The city’s main industrial product now is cement. Pop. (2005) 51,534; (2010) 50,605.
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