Word: aomori
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sure enough, Halsey struck again. Four days later his carrier planes thundered up again out of the dawn. Some struck Hokkaido (pop. 3,300,000), which had never been bombed before. Some struck northern Honshu. Some struck in Tsugaru Strait, where the railroad and automobile ferries run between Aomori (on Honshu) and Hakodate (on Hokkaido), almost the only link between the two islands...
...Science Monitor when he wasn't too busy ducking Jap bombs. In 1936 he made a flying trip to Inner Mongolia, later traveled through Manchukuo and the guerrilla-infested country of Occupied China, visited Japan often-on one of those junkets covered the whole country from Nagasaki to Aomori...
...quite accurate, Sanriku ("Three riku") comprises the pre-1871 provinces of Rikuoku (now Aomori prefecture), Rikucho (Iwate prefecture) and Rikuzen (Miyagi prefecture). The boundaries of the prefectures and provinces mentioned do not correspond entirely...