Ōkawa

Ōkawa

Japan
      city, Fukuoka ken (prefecture), Kyushu, Japan, on the mouth of the Chikugo-gawa (Chikugo River). It was a fishing port known as Wakatsu during the Tokugawa era (1603–1867), when it also served as a market for agricultural produce and lumber. In the mid-19th century, Dutch techniques of woodworking and cabinetmaking were introduced, and woodworking had become the city's major industry by 1949. Since then, modernization and mechanization of the industry have progressed, using wood imported from the Philippines and Alaska. Pop. (2005 prelim.) 39,209.

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