Word: atami
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...Atami, on Japan's southeast coast, is one of the loveliest resort towns in the world. The mountains tumble abruptly down to Atami's yellow beach, and at this time of year the wistaria blooms in purple luxuriance on the walls of inns and cottages that cling to Atami's hillsides...
...peaceful in Atami one afternoon last week. Visitors were pausing along the white Tokyo road notched in the pine-covered sea cliffs to take in the view. Aiko Nagai, a plump geisha, was landscaping her elaborate hairdo in preparation for the evening's entertainment. Heiji Tomioka, sake merchant, and his son were filling bottles and stone jugs for delivery to the crowded inns. In a warehouse by the docks, Kazuyoshi Kitamura was pouring gasoline from a drum into a five-gallon can. Yoshio Suzuki lounged about, watching Kazuyoshi. Yoshio, a hulking youth, as slow-witted as Lennie in John...
Eleven hundred houses, a fourth of Atami, burned. So did 37 inns, six hospitals and the city hall. Eight hundred people were hurt. The mains were faulty and the firemen stoutly refused to use sea water; it might hurt their pumps...
Japanese are used to catastrophe. Fifty percent of the matchstick houses rebuilt since the war have since burned down. And the people of Atami are known all over Japan for their cheerfulness...
...another correspondent was murdered by a former Nazi spy, Hero Kent Wood was suspect. His girl friend tossed away her chance for a big role by confessing that she was with him at the time of the murder. She was fired, married her American and they went honeymooning at Atami hot springs. A telegram came from her studio: in view of her "democratic sacrifice," all was forgiven, and the big role was hers after all. Fadeout...