Japan has a floating exhibition showing her wares to foreign countries although the Japanese exhibition ship Nissyo Maru (also known as the Nissho Maru) is principally displaying a machinery fair. The Nissyo Maru, of 6,256 gross tons, is owned by the Tokyo Sempaku K.K. and was built in 1939 by Mitsubishi Jukogyo. Her dimensions are 417ft. 5in. x 57ft 1 in. x 33ft. 9in. She left Japan for Saigon where she arrived on December 30th 1956, and continued thereafter to Bangkok, Rangoon, Colombo, Bombay, Karachi, Singapore, Djakarta and Manila, returning to Japan in 1957.
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