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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 (2005) 604,400. 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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