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Kagoshima

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Kagoshima

Industrial city and port on Kyushu island, southwest Japan, 150 km/93 mi southeast of Nagasaki; population (1994) 534,000. It is the seat of the prefecture of the same name. Satsumayaki porcelain, starch, caramel, vegetable oil, tobacco, wood crafts, and a silk fabric called tsumugi are produced here. Kagoshima is often compared to Naples, its twin city.

St Francis Xavier landed here 1549. It was a rebel base in the Seinan (or Satsuma) Rebellion of 1877.


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Production is scheduled to commence in April 2007 at Kokubu Plant in Kagoshima Japan, with monthly output of one million units.
Ed4T, which was developed by Yale University, Kagoshima University and Showa University, is a nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor with enhanced anti-HIV-1 activity.
HIROYUKI SAKAI, 62, from Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan.
 
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