Word: hideo
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...only DDT, which Japanese farmers use mainly on fruit trees, but also BHC, a pesticide that is widely credited with making Japan a self-sufficient rice producer. "We're still in the dark on what residual BHC and DDT will do to the human system," says Dr. Hideo Fukuda of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry. "But we've decided that it is wise to ban them sooner rather than later...
...incident is no longer a subject for jurists," said Tokyo University Professor Hideo Fujiki. "It's already one for the historians." Not quite. The incident occurred in 1952, when 6,000 demonstrators shouting "Yankee go home!" and demanding a new government clashed with 1,000 police amidst the fragrant pine groves and the graveled walkways of the plaza outside Tokyo's Imperial Palace; two died and more than 1,400 were injured...