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Japanese silk export to Europe in the late 19th Century.
Tomioka Silk Mill (wikipedia) Japan’s first industrial silk mill was established in 1872 with the help of French engineers, coincidentally in Tomioka, the city where I was born and raised. The economy of my hometown region depended on the silk industry for over a century. My childhood memories are filled with mulberry trees and silkworm…