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16-533: Awazisan Maru (淡路山丸), also known as Awajisan Maru or Awagisan Maru , was a motor cargo vessel built by Tama Zosensho of Tamano for Mitsui & Co. Ltd. with intention of serving on their Yokohama to New York route. The ship remained in service between Japan and United States for two years before being requisitioned by the Imperial Japanese Army . She was bombed and damaged during her first Army mission and subsequently torpedoed and sunk by

32-587: A Dutch submarine in December 1941. The ship was launched in 1939 and was notable for being the most advanced freighter of its time. It was commissioned by the Imperial Japanese Army to transport troops in World War II and was part of the Japanese Invasion of Malaya on 8 December 1941. Along with its sister ship Ayatosan Maru and Sakura Maru , she was carrying around 5,000 troops during

48-609: Is 56,531 people. Tamano has been conducting censuses since 1920. The Tamano area is part of ancient Bizen Province . During the Edo Period , it was part of the holdings of Okayama Domain . Following the Meiji restoration , the area was organized into villages within Kojima District, Okayama with the creation of the modern municipalities system on April 1, 1889. The city of Tamano was officially founded on August 3, 1940 by

64-495: Is a Japanese heavy industries company. Despite its name, it no longer builds ships and now focuses mainly on production of high-value ship equipment such as engines and automated gantry cranes . Mitsui E&S is the largest supplier of gantry cranes in Japan with a market share of nearly 90 per cent, and its products are used at major ports such as Long Beach , Los Angeles , Mombasa , Ho Chi Minh , and Klang . Mitsui E&S

80-617: Is located in southern Okayama Prefecture. It faces the Seto Inland Sea to the south, and parts of the city are within the borders of the Setonaikai National Park . Okayama Prefecture Tamano has a humid subtropical climate ( Köppen climate classification Cfa ). The average annual temperature in Tamano is 16.1 °C (61.0 °F). The average annual rainfall is 1,038.5 mm (40.89 in) with July as

96-554: The Great Seto Bridge was opened, there was a train ferry between Uno Port in Tamano and Takamatsu on Shikoku . Then, Tamano was the major entrance to Shikoku. Today there still exist many ferry lines between Uno port and Takamatsu, and also the islands of Shōdoshima and Naoshima . [REDACTED] JR West (JR West) - Uno Line Mitsui Engineering %26 Shipbuilding Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding ( 三井E&S , Mitsui E&S ) ( TYO : 7003 )

112-804: The bridge, and other major parts of the ship were also automatically or remotely controlled from the bridge. In 1967, as the container ship age dawned, it built its first gantry cranes for container ships. In 1975, it built the Berge Emperor , which was the longest ship ever built at that time, measuring 391.83m, for Bergesen d.y. in Norway. Mitsui E&S acquired Burmeister & Wain's engineering and construction business in 1990, and through this acquisition, it also acquired Burmeister's boiler business in 2017, which primarily caters to small and medium biomass power plants. Mitsui E&S split its naval and merchant shipbuilding businesses in 2021, selling

128-468: The first Japan-built ship to be exported after the loss of the Second World War, S.S.Knurr (a Norwegian whaling ship). In 1951, it started its chemical plants business by building a nylon production plant for Toray Industries . In 1961, it built 'the world's first automated ship' Kinkasan maru ( 金華山丸 ）for MOL . This ship was the first of its scale to control the entire engine room from

144-485: The former (including the Tamano Shipyard) to Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and selling a 49% stake in the latter to Tsuneishi Shipbuilding. Tsuneishi took over a majority stake of the merchant shipbuilding business in 2022 as Mitsui E&S refocused its strategy on marine engines, port cranes, and other machinery. In 2022, Mitsui E&S agreed to purchase IHI 's marine engine business, and announced that it

160-513: The landings at Kota Bharu . Awazisan Maru was bombed by a Lockheed Hudson aircraft piloted by Flt. Lt. Oscar Diamond of No. 1 Squadron RAAF , set afire and was abandoned to drift. It is believed that the freighter sunk or was subsequently torpedoed by the Dutch submarine K XII . The invasion of Malaya preceded the attack on Pearl Harbor by an hour and a half, making it the first Japanese campaign of World War II , likely making Awazisan Maru

176-523: The largest shipbuilding yards in Japan, operated by Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding , is located in Tamano. Other industries include textiles, chemicals, oil refining and salt production. Tamano has 14 public elementary schools, seven public junior high schools and two public high schools operated by the city government, and two public high schools operated by the Okayama prefectural Board of Education. The JR Uno Line connects it to Okayama . Before

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192-639: The merger of the towns of Uno and Hibi. Tamano has a mayor-council form of government with a directly elected mayor and a unicameral city council of 19 members. Tamano contributes two members to the Okayama Prefectural Assembly. In terms of national politics, the city is part of the Okayama 2nd district of the lower house of the Diet of Japan . Tamano has a mixed economy of heavy industry, commercial fishing and agriculture. Shipbuilding and metal refining are major industries, with one of

208-573: The very first casualty in the war. Awazisan Maru now lies in 20 m (66 ft) of water off the coast of Pantai Sabak in Kota Bharu and is fast becoming a popular diving destination due to its remarkable history. It is more popularly known amongst local divers as the Japanese Invasion Wreck . 06°08′N 102°16′E  /  6.133°N 102.267°E  / 6.133; 102.267 Tamano, Okayama Tamano

224-531: The wettest month. The temperatures are highest on average in August, at around 28.1 °C (82.6 °F), and lowest in January, at around 5.5 °C (41.9 °F). The highest temperature ever recorded in Tamano was 38.2 °C (100.8 °F) on 19 August 1995; the coldest temperature ever recorded was −6.4 °C (20.5 °F) on 26 February 1981. Per Japanese census data, the population of Tamano in 2020

240-730: Was established in 1917 as the Shipbuilding Division of Mitsui & Co. with the first shipyard at Tamano . It built the first Japan-built diesel-propelled merchant ship, Akagisan Maru ( 赤城山丸 ) in 1924. With its success, it began manufacturing diesel engines under a license agreement with Burmeister & Wain in Denmark. In 1937, the shipyards became a separate entity within the Mitsui zaibatsu, Tama Shipyard . The company changed its name to Mitsui Shipbuilding & Engineering Co., Ltd. in 1942. In 1948, Mitsui E&S built

256-537: Was in the process of developing ammonia-fueled marine engine technologies as a means of reducing CO 2 emissions. PACECO CORP. is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Mitsui E&S headquartered in Hayward , California . It built the first dedicated ship-to-shore container crane in the world in 1958. On 22 February 2024, the White House announced that as part of its 20-billion-dollar scheme to upgrade and secure

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