Word: hokkaido
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...Okhotsk, between the peninsula and the mainland, into a private sheltered lake for submarines armed with missiles that could strike the continental U.S. The southern half of Sakhalin bristles with at least six Soviet airfields and is merely 27 miles across the Strait of Soya from Japan's Hokkaido Island. The strait is a choke point for Soviet naval vessels moving from the Sea of Japan into the North Pacific. Vladivostok and Sovetskaya-Gavan are the main bases for the 820 ships of the Soviet Pacific fleet...
...last week, "four, three, two, one." At "zero," Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone aimed a glove-covered finger at a button in his Tokyo residence. The prime-ministerial pressure detonated a dynamite charge 440 miles north of Tokyo and 780 ft. beneath the Tsugaru Strait, which separates Honshu and Hokkaido islands. The blast blew away the final rock separating two pilot tunnels under the strait that have been boring toward each other for the past 18 years...
...other Japanese firms, such as Japan Airlines and Mitsui Trust Bank, new employees eagerly submit to unusual initiations. One Tokyo retailing firm dispatched its group of newcomers for a midwinter swim on the northern island of Hokkaido to tone up their selfdiscipline. Matsushita workers, by contrast, are sent to a Zen Buddhist temple for three-day retreats. In most Japanese companies the new workers, their parents and other relatives attend a ceremony at which the president welcomes the newcomers to the firm...
...replaced its MiG-21s with the more advanced MiG-23 combat fighters and has moved a battery of SS-20 mobile missiles with multiple warheads, plus at least ten supersonic Backfire bombers armed with antiship missiles, from Europe to bases near Vladivostok, directly across the Sea of Japan from Hokkaido...
...waters of the North Pacific, between Hawaii and Alaska. Their movements can be monitored relatively easily by U.S. antisubmarine warfare (ASW) forces. But the latest Soviet submarines, fitted with new longer-range missiles, could hit targets in the continental U.S. from farther awayfrom the Sea of Okhotsk north of Hokkaido, which is sheltered by the Soviet mainland, a peninsula and the Kuril Islands. Japanese and American experts believe the Soviet Union is trying to seal off the Sea of Okhotsk from American ASW forces and turn it into a protected launching area for the newest Soviet subs and missiles...