Word: shizuoka
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Within a week, other secondary cities got the same treatment-Shizuoka, Toyohashi, Fukuoka, Kagamigahara. Small as they were (under 325,000 population), they contained valuable war plants, arsenals, little "shadow factories" dispersed in flimsy dwellings. In some cases one raid was considered enough to write off the productive capacity of a city. One such case was the great naval arsenal at Kure, last big plant of its type...