Word: hokkaido
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...story is set and photographed on Hokkaido, a northern island of Japan where the principal occupation of the people is horsebreeding. The farm community involved has been greatly influenced by the American occupation in dress and manners, but still retains a few of its ancient customs. Unlike most of the Eastern films that have been shown in America recently, this is a modern-day drama in modern-day Japan, and only occasional shots of the traditional rituals suggest the people's old cultural ways...
...suffered malaria and tuberculosis, sold automobiles, went to London to study law, and set up as a barrister in Singapore. A member of the Singapore Volunteer Force in World War II, he was taken prisoner by the Japanese in 1942; his fellow prisoners remember his determined cheeriness in a Hokkaido camp in which 40% of the inmates died. After the war he became a leading figure in the colony's criminal courts, winning acquittals for his clients and some $112,000 a year for himself. Bored with the businessman's Progressive Party, he switched to the Singapore Labor...
...eastern shores. Always before they had been met by thousands of Japanese fishing boats, which plucked almost all of Japan's important salmon catch from the northern waters. But this year the salmon move unmolested, and the sea is free of boats. Back in the fishing villages of Hokkaido, the Japanese vessels wait idly, their crews staring balefully out to sea. The gay festival that was to precede the departure for the fishing grounds has been canceled...
...mixed doubles (won by the U.S.), the Japanese reasserted their dominance of a sport that was once little more than a parlor pastime for upper-class Englishmen. They have been building up their skill ever since Professor Seizo Tsuboi brought the game home from England in 1902. Now, from Hokkaido to Kyushu, every community has its table-tennis center, and it is practically a national game...
...have disclosed a Russian test in Siberia or a U.S. test in mid-Pacific. But on one occasion last year, a mass crossed Japan that had seemingly got lost. It arrived from the west, dropping radioactive rain on much of Japan and radioactive dust on the northern island of Hokkaido. A sample sent to Tokyo proved to be ordinary dust from the Gobi Desert, which often falls on Japan. It must have got its radioactivity from a "hot" air mass that passed near the Gobi...