Word: fuji
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bracing for a disaster this weekend, as predicted in a book released last month byAum Shinrikyo cultleader Shoko Asahara. He is believed to have directed thenerve gas attack that killed 11 people in Tokyo subwayslast month. Today, Japanese police carried 53 children from the Aum Shinrikyo compound near Mt. Fuji, many wearing headgear with wires attached. Cult followers believe the gadgets allow them to synchronize brain waves with Asahara...
...more police officials would be harmed if the investigation of Aum was not called off. But if the assault was meant to intimidate authorities, there were no signs of anyone backing off. All week investigators continued to dig into the cult's compounds in a rural village near Mount Fuji. According to a police spokesman, the investigators were gathering evidence that sect leaders planned to make poison gas "in preparation for murder,'' the closest that authorities have come to implicating Aum. Police unearthed tons of suspect chemicals, drugs and apparatuses and came close to uncovering evidence that the killer nerve...
...canaries went first. policemen in protective suits, ridiculous-looking things with gas detectors hanging out in front, bore the cages before them as they made their way grimly through the country road in the Mount Fuji foothills toward what looked to be a factory compound. It was 7 a.m. There were more than a thousand police; those who didn't wear protective suits watched the canaries closely. If the compound doors opened and the birds died, they would flee for their lives...
...include reductions in product lines, severe cost cutting, mergers with other automakers and drastic rethinking of business practices. In mid-December, sixth-ranked Isuzu announced that it was getting out of the passenger-car business to concentrate on its truck business. Second-ranked Nissan is slowly absorbing ninth-ranked Fuji Heavy Industries, the parent of ailing Subaru...
Eastman Kodak is betting that Photo CDs will eventually become as familiar to photographers around the world as its bright yellow boxes of film. It has succeeded in persuading such competitors as Fuji, Agfa and Konica to agree to one standard for the discs, although Kodak is first to offer the product. What the company envisions is a future in which devices that play Photo CDs -- which also double as music CD players -- have become standard equipment in home entertainment centers, alongside the stereo, the TV and the VCR. Kodak pictures families gathered in living rooms to see photos displayed...