Nippon Steel announced a pilot project to process waste food into ethanol in 2006.

"I think they felt after all those conversations Nippon Steel wouldn't come in and make an offer," he said.

Nippon Steel closed a notebook computer subsidiary it set up in California.

Her father was an engineer with Nippon Steel and later its chief counsel.

Nippon Steel, for example, opened and then quickly closed a mail-order business.

Nippon Steel says that will rise to 14 percent in 1993.

Nippon Steel employed about 8,000 people here on three shifts.

Nippon Steel began building larger, more modern plants elsewhere and transferred workers to those locations.

"I thought they were very cold," he said of Nippon Steel.

Nippon Steel is the castle in many of these towns.