One Steel Mill Holds Key to the Nuclear Revival
Japan Steel Works was formed in 1907 mainly to produce gun barrels for the Imperial Japanese Navy. The 18-inch canons that were the main armament of the Yamato, the world’s largest battleship, were forged at the company’s Muroran mill on the northern island of Hokkaido.
The Yamato was sunk in the 1945 Battle for Okinawa, and the mill was heavily bombed, …
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