By KENJI IZUMI/ Staff Writer
November 30, 2020 at 07:50 JST
Oitomi President Ichiro Oikawa, center, shows off the top Castings of the Year prize after accepting it from Kazumichi Shimizu, left, the chair of the Japan Foundry Engineering Society, at the Oitomi foundry on Oct. 28. (Kenji Izumi)
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