Word: hokkaido
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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River Test. Kanayama plans to hold his next test in the Chitose River on Hokkaido Island. He will release educated baby trout, marked so that they can be recognized, in a stretch of water stocked with hungry and cannibalistic grown-up fish. Marked, unschooled babies will be released also. After a suitable interval, the young trout will be netted to see whether the educated ones have survived better than their unshocked cousins...
Most Americans have not seen a good solar eclipse since 1954, and after this week they will not see another until 1970. This week's performance, clouds permitting, will entertain most of North America. Saturday's show will start at dawn in Japan's northern island, Hokkaido, where the sun will rise with the moon already squarely in front of it. Then the tip of the moon's black, conical shadow will race northeast, crossing the Bering Sea and coming ashore in Alaska just south of the Yukon. West of Canada's Great Slave Lake...
...skating rinks, bowling alleys and on ski slopes made of plastic, Japanese will soon be able to play at one of Japan's most modern resorts, the San-ai Hotel on Hokkaido Island, just an hour's plane ride from Tokyo. Work on the resort began last week when slim and tireless Kiyoshi Ichimura, 62, got permission from his backers to go ahead with the ambitious project. Already one of Japan's fastest rising businessmen, whose nine companies sold $61 million worth of goods last year, Ichimura believes that "to stand still is to lose ground...
...Japan reported that rain falling on Oct. 14 on Wakkanai, Hokkaido, was 3,000 times as radioactive as rain analyzed before the Russians resumed testing...
...years Japanese fishermen shipping out of Hokkaido have faced a particular risk above and beyond the normal hazards of their trade. From bases in the tiny Habomai and Shikotan islands, only two miles off Hokkaido, Soviet patrol boats steam out at unpredictable intervals, seize from 50 to 100 Japanese fishing boats a year on charges of violating the twelve-mile limit. The crews and the boats are usually sent home, but the Russians keep the captains, sentence them to a year or so at hard labor...