Word: honshu
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Japan. It was typhoon season again, and the latest, called Georgia, smashed into central Honshu 150 miles southwest of Tokyo, cutting diagonally across the island before disappearing into the Sea of Japan. Flood waters and landslides destroyed bridges, blocked roads, isolating many communities. At least 139 died, 107 were missing and 1,000 injured...
Roaring north out of the Pacific last week came the worst storm to hit Japan in 24 years. In twelve dreadful hours, Typhoon Ida swept clear up the northern half of Honshu, Japan's biggest and richest island. The torrential rains caused widespread floods and some 1,900 landslides, left half a million homeless. In Tokyo the Emperor's 300 cherished carp were flushed out of the Imperial Palace moat into surrounding streets. (Tokyo cops, splashing in hot pursuit, saved most of the carp as well as the Imperial swans.) On the "Japanese Riviera"-the mountainous Izu Peninsula...
...change, even in the most remote areas, is on the way. In Iwano village in southern Honshu a 60-year-old farm wife named Yori Oka has been waging a highly successful "Down with Feudalism" campaign. She organized cooking schools, sewing classes, formed a Village Women's Association, and finally thought of Green Flag Day. Once a month the Women's Association plants a green flag in the village square, and beneath its protection the daughters and even the daughters-in-law take a day of rest...
...returning from his first visit since the war to Japan's northernmost islands of Hokkaido and Honshu. Two hours and one minute after taking off, the Emperor stepped again on terra firma at Tokyo, looking much less nervous than he had before. Crowds of his smiling subjects greeted him with banzais, while news photographers, perched on ladders high above the Emperor's head, told him when to take off and put on his straw skimmer...
...flown up the coast of Japan past the straits dividing Honshu from Hokkaido and into the Japan Sea. It had been a miserable day from the start. At midmorning we began a gradual descent. Tony Ricotta, radarman, spotted two "ships" on the screen. One turned out to be a thick cloud. The other was the lumbering Panamanian off Siberia...