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A NASMYTH WILSON RESTORED IN JAPAN

The Shibaura Institute of Technology Junior and Senior High School was inaugurated in 1922 as the Tokyo Railway Junior High School. It was one of the projects related to the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the opening of the Shinagawa (later, Shimbashi) to Yokohama railway on 12 June 1872 – Japan's first commercial passenger-carrying railway. 2022 is therefore

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