Word: hokkaido
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...least 500 voices. We've got to liven things up, hit them hard." Barrage on Asahigawa. Hard-hitting Missionary-Pilot Jackson is no novice at church-building. His first big Japanese assignment (in 1953) was to set up a Baptist church in Asahigawa (pop. 171,835) on Hokkaido. Usual procedure in a new territory is to start a Bible class, gradually work for a church. Instead, impatient Captain Jackson and his pretty wife began with a long advertising barrage, organized Japanese pastors to line up officials and businessmen. After a week-long series of revival meetings, the church...
...Japan, where anti-American sentiment has been fanned by the jurisdictional dispute over another G.I. who is charged with manslaughter, Hokkaido Shimbun said that the riots were "primarily attributable to American racial prejudice and superiority complex." The usually pro-American Mainichi Shimbun exulted: "The incident proves an old saying: 'Even a worm one inch long is one-half inch of spirit.'" In Bangkok the middle-of-the-road daily Satirapharp cautioned: "The incident on Formosa has taught us that we must not let too many Americans come to our country...
...famed for her verse. But from then on, Tessai was largely self-taught, spent the rest of his life carrying out the ancient Chinese precept: "Read 10,000 books and travel 10,000 miles." Though Tessai traveled extensively throughout Japan-including a visit to the Hairy Ainus in Hokkaido (Tessai sketched them humorously, looking like prime candidates for Cartoonist Al Capp's Lower Slobbovia)-and did drawings and maps for the government topographical office, it was scholarly reading that remained his prime inspiration...
This fall Hokkaido's farmers suffered their worst crop failure in 42 years. Hokkaido's fishermen were doing just as badly: harried by Russian gunboats from the Kurile and Sakhalin islands, they were desperately forced to overfish their own meager waters...
...Cadillac-plated prosperity in Tokyo, only the efforts of a group of charities ranging from the United Nations International Children's Fund and Catholic and Protestant groups to Japan's own Association of Pinball Machine Manufacturers have been able to stave off actual starvation in Hokkaido. Even though the U.S. Air Force last week flew in three planeloads of food. Hokkaido's farmers face both hunger and bankruptcy. "We've sold even the gold from our teeth," one farmer told TIME Correspondent Curtis Prendergast. "The only thing we've left to sell is our daughter...