Word: hamai
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Shinzo Hamai, 62, four-term mayor of Hiroshima (1947-1952, 1959-1967) and the biggest single force in the city's rebirth; of a heart attack; in Hiroshima. Himself a survivor of the atomic holocaust, Hamai laid out a new metropolis with broad avenues and plazas, was so successful in convincing industry (shipbuilding, auto manufacturing) to return that today Hiroshima is one of Japan's most prosperous cities, with a population of 543,000, almost twice the wartime number...
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