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Kobe Steel holds centennial ceremony.

Sep. 1--OSAKA -- Kobe Steel Ltd. held a ceremony Thursday to celebrate the 100th anniversary of its founding in its birthplace of Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture.

"We can feel the weight of the past 100 years and I thought about the next 100 years," President Yasuo Inubushi said at the ceremony as a centennial monument was unveiled. "As our company's manufacturing bases have now spread to many countries in the world, we aim to see each of them prosper along with concerned local communities." Kobe Steel was established when a general trading house named Suzuki Shoten purchased a Kobe steel manufacturer on Sept. 1, 1905.

Steel demand was rising at the time as the Japanese ...

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