Yoshiya Kiryū (also called Joshua), a character in the video game The World Ends with You
Kiryu is also the nickname of Mechagodzilla in the Millennium series of the Godzilla franchise.
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Pachinko manufacturing arrived in Kiryū after World War II, during the period of industrial reconstruction, with the formation of two main companies—the Heiwa Corporation in 1949, and the Sophia Corporation in 1951.