Okada (Aichi)

Japanese: 岡田(愛知) - おかだ
Okada (Aichi)

...Population: 78,202 (1995). In the mid-Edo period, the cotton textile industry, which originated in Okada in the central area, became known as Chita Sarashi, and wide cloth for export is still produced there today. With the development of the southern Nagoya coastal industrial zone, which began in 1962, factories for energy-related industries, mainly petroleum, LNG, and power generation, steel, compound feed, and sugar product manufacturing, have moved in, and the previously thriving coastal fishing, seaweed farming, and swimming beaches have disappeared. ...

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Japanese:

…人口7万8202(1995)。江戸時代中期,中央部の岡田で発祥した綿織物業は知多さらしの名で知られ,現在も輸出向けの広幅物が生産されている。1962年に始まった名古屋南部臨海工業地帯の造成により石油,LNG,発電を中心としたエネルギー関連産業,鉄鋼業,配合飼料,糖化製品製造業などの工場が進出し,以前盛んであった沿岸漁業,ノリ養殖,海水浴場は姿を消した。…

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