Word: fukui
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Shingishu, Korea, 200 houses were washed away by floods. At Nagano, 20 persons were blown to bits by a fireworks explosion. Many mountain villages were wiped out by forest-fires between Kobe and Shimonoseki on the Empire's main island. A cyclone howled through the town of Fukui, unroofed houses, wrecked communications. At Nagoya, a despondent Japanese supplemented the work of the elements by throwing himself under a freight train. He was killed, the locomotive and 16 cars were wrecked, traffic from Tokyo to Shimonoseki stood still...
...traitorous Mitsui!" As a result no successor to Dr. Dan, no Mitsui candidate for assassination, has been appointed. His work is now done by a "Council of Three" Mitsui minions (who hate, fear and dodge photographers) : domineering, onetime newspaperman Seihin Ikeda; softspoken, old-fogyish Nagabumi Ariga; diplomatic, democratic Kikusaburo Fukui. It was on this Council's advice that the Senior Baron last week signed away 30,000,000 yen,† created by a squiggle of his august pen a Mitsui Foundation "to relieve distress among farmers and fishermen." Though Tokyo editors hailed this "largest private benefaction in the history...