Industrial port city (coal, steel, chemicals,
cotton thread, plate glass, alcohol) port
city in Japan, on the Hibiki Sea, N Kyushu,
formed 1963 by the amalgamation of Moji,
Kokura, Tobata, Yawata, and Wakamatsu;
population (1987) 1,042,000. A tunnel 1942
links it with Honshu.