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MOJI , a See also:town of See also:Japan, on the Kiushiu See also:side of the Shimonoseki Strait . The strait being only I m. in width, Moji and Shimonoseki would be practically the same See also:port did not the swiftness of the current along the latter See also:shore make it convenient for vessels to See also:anchor off Moji . Moji is one of the places voluntarily opened by the See also:Japanese for purposes of See also:direct export . It is the starting-point of the Kiushiu railway, and as there is abundance of See also:coal in its neighbourhood, it has become a town of considerable importance . In 1890 it was little more than a See also:hamlet, but it had in 1901 a See also:population of 25,274, and a considerable See also:foreign See also:trade . |
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