Science Hills Komatsu by Mari Ito/UAo

KOMATSU – The city of Komatsu has been a Japanese industrial and manufacturing hub since it was founded in 1940. It even lent its name to the second largest manufacturer of construction and mining equipment in the world, whose former factory locat
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