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Posted on 26th August 2019

Did you know the relationship between Manchester and Kagoshima, Japan?

At the end of Edo era (Samurai era), when things were at last beginning to change in the new direction in Japan, Manchester, the birth place of Industrial Revolution, drew those Japanese who were seeking to “westernize” Japan.

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