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...contracted H1N1, the swine flu virus, while participating in the Model United Nations at U.N. headquarters in New York City. The two roomed together and sat next to each other on a Continental airlines flight that returned them to Narita International Airport on May 19. One girl, from the Hachioji district in western Tokyo, was feverish on the flight but a quarantine test showed her to be negative for the new flu. A test taken Wednesday night at a Hachioji hospital confirmed H1N1. Her classmate, who is from Kawasaki, south of Tokyo, was confirmed with the swine flu the same...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Japan, Swine Flu Spreading Quickly | 5/21/2009 | See Source »

Yoshiko Kawada Hachioji, Japan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters , Feb. 20, 1995 | 2/20/1995 | See Source »

...beings. There have been complaints that the response of the authorities was too slow because of its bureaucracy. They are deserved. But this earthquake was much more destructive than the government ever imagined. It is easy to criticize, but everyone has to learn from this horrendous experience. Yoshiko Kawada Hachioji, Japan It happened all of a sudden in predawn darkness. My house was almost destroyed. It was a nightmare. Like a thunderbolt, violent movement ran through our street. After this tragic moment, deep silence came back in the darkness, and then I heard a voice crying for help...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 20, 1995 | 2/20/1995 | See Source »

...memory of his two years with Unit 731 as it worked on developing a "germ bomb," which Tokyo hoped would help win World War II. "I myself did not put any prisoner under the knife," he tells a mostly middle-aged audience of about 50 people at Hachioji, near Tokyo. "But when I think that the rats and fleas I bred were used in experiments which killed so many people, I feel that it's my task to tell everyone that such things took place." The audience stirs uneasily, sharing a hideous secret from the past...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dispatches: Baring the Shame | 11/29/1993 | See Source »

Yesterday, workmen painted guard rails and cleaned the roadside for the million people expected to line the route to Hachioji...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Japan, World Bid Farewell to Hirohito | 2/24/1989 | See Source »

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