Cowra - Cowra (English spelling)

Japanese: カウラ - かうら(英語表記)Cowra
Cowra - Cowra (English spelling)

A city in the southeast of New South Wales, Australia. It is 318 km west of Sydney by road. Population 12,462 (2001). It is the center of a fertile agricultural and livestock region, and light industries such as canned asparagus are also well developed. It was the site of a Japanese prisoner of war camp during World War II, and is known for the mass escape incident (August 1944, in which 247 people died). There is a Japanese war cemetery built by the Japanese government in 1964 (Showa 39). Settled in 1846. The name comes from an aboriginal word meaning rock.

[Tatsuya Taniuchi]

Source: Shogakukan Encyclopedia Nipponica About Encyclopedia Nipponica Information | Legend

Japanese:

オーストラリア、ニュー・サウス・ウェールズ州南東部の都市。シドニーの西、道路で318キロメートルにある。人口1万2462(2001)。肥沃(ひよく)な農牧業地帯の中心地で、アスパラガスの缶詰など、軽工業も発達する。第二次世界大戦中に日本兵捕虜収容所があった所で、集団脱走事件(1944年8月。247人死亡)で知られる。日本政府が1964年(昭和39)に建設した日本人戦没者墓地がある。1846年入植。名称は、岩を意味する先住民語に由来する。

[谷内 達]

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