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3 unusual facts about Ōmuta


Omuta

Shin-Ōmuta Station, a shinkansen train station located in Ōmuta, Fukuoka, Japan

Ōmuta Station, a train station located in Omuta, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan

Ōmuta murders, a series of murders committed by the Kitamura-gumi yakuza family in Japan


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Three-hundred of these POWs were sent to Fukuoka Camp 6 in Orio, 350 POWs were sent to Fukuoka Camp 21 in Nakama, 100 Dutch POWs were sent to Fukuoka Camp 9 Miyata, and 250 including 150 Australian POWs were allocated to Mitsui to work in their coal mines at PW Fukuoka Camp 17 in Ōmuta.


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