Word: hokkaido
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...right below a Buddhist temple. Engineers are confident that they can create enormous underground structures with little danger of cave-ins. They point to such construction breakthroughs as the 33.5-mile-long Seikan Tunnel, the world's longest underwater corridor, which connects Japan's main island of Honshu with Hokkaido to the north...
...visit is his first to the United States. He is scheduled to lecture onseveral of his films, attend classes and meet withfaculty members, students, and Boston-areafilmmakers, He is accompanied on his tour byTadayoshi Himeda, a documentary filmmaker whosework on ritual and custom, particularly among thedwindling Ainu people of Hokkaido, has influencedImamura's work. Many of Himeda's films will alsobe screened by the archives...
...more will be needed to warm Moscow-Tokyo relations. The two countries, which never signed a peace treaty after World War II, have been at odds over the four northern islands off Hokkaido, where the Soviets have 10,000 troops and 40 advanced MiG-23s. Sovereignty over the islands, occupied by the Soviets at the end of the war, remains a highly divisive issue. Last August there was a modest breakthrough when the Kremlin allowed a group of Japanese to visit their relatives' graves on two of the islands without first obtaining visas. But the Japanese are not overly impressed...
...L.D.P. candidates then hit the campaign trail with a vengeance. Like other Liberal Democratic leaders, the 68-year-old Prime Minister vigorously sought out Japanese voters from the northernmost island of Hokkaido to the southernmost archipelago of Okinawa. Outflanked and unprepared for the L.D.P. onslaught, the opposition got off to a slow start and never recovered. The Socialists, long the ruling party's most serious adversary, lost 25 seats in the lower house, bringing their total down to 86. The moderate Democratic Socialists did not fare much better, dropping sharply, from 37 seats to 26. The centrist, Buddhist-oriented Clean...
Sound trucks blaring political slogans crept through packed city streets on Okinawa. Candidates wearing white sashes emblazoned with their names pressed the flesh of voters at subway stations in Hokkaido. Campaign workers garbed in koala bear costumes roamed a shopping center in Tokyo. Across Japan last week hundreds of politicians scrambled to win voters before the July 6 election. At issue in the balloting will be control of both chambers of the Japanese Diet. Also at stake will be the political future of Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone and his controversial drive to create a new era for postwar Japan...