Word: hokkaido
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...Japan: Niseko Higashiyama Prince Hotel On Hokkaido, Japan's northernmost (and snowiest) island, Niseko boasts some of the world's best powder skiing, with three diverse ski areas?plenty to keep skiers busy for a full week. The hotel, a comfortable modern complex at the base of the slopes, offers six-day lodging and meal packages for $1,350, including lift passes but not transportation...
...Number of residents who were advised to evacuate their homes on Japan's northern island of Hokkaido after an earthquake measuring 8.0 on the Richter scale, the strongest in 2 1/2 years worldwide
...psychology interpretation? His anxiety stems from growing pains. Ten years ago, Under Cover consisted of a single store the size of a one-car garage in the backstreets of Tokyo's trendy Harajuku area. Today, it's a fashion empire stretching from Hokkaido to Kyushu. Takahashi has won just about every fashion award Japan can offer (last year he captured the prestigious Mainichi prize normally reserved for establishment figures like Issey Miyake and Junya Watanabe). Across the country, his fans faithfully line up outside his 31 boutiques, eager for the opportunity to buy a $2,500 dress...
...exploded and sank in 1945. And last year, a Tokyo court ordered the government to pay $170,000 to the son of the late Liu Lien-yen, a slave worker from China who escaped in July 1945 and spent the next 13 years living in the mountains of northern Hokkaido, unaware that Emperor Hirohito had surrendered...
...Liberal Democratic Party heavyweight at the Foreign Ministry, for alleged bribery; in Tokyo. Suzuki's power struggle with Foreign Minister Makiko Tanaka led to her sacking this January, which severely dented the popularity of Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi. Officials allege Suzuki accepted a $40,000 kickback from a Hokkaido logging company. DIED. FRITZ WALTER, 81, captain of the first German football team to win the World Cup (in 1954), an achievement that helped ease Germany's pariah status following World War II; in Enkenbach-Alsenborn, Germany. During Walter's 21-year career, the midfielder scored 33 international goals...