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Tomioka Silk Mill (1872)
On the Meiji Japan and post-Soviet Russia map as “The Tomioka silk mill”
Oct 1872 — To teach modern silk reeling, the government opened a model mill equipped with French machinery and directed by Paul Brunat, a Frenchman. Its first workers were young women, many from samurai families. For decades, raw silk became Japan’s largest export.
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