Word: honshu
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Since August, a floating, 500-ton experimental station located 2½ miles at sea off Japan's Honshu island has been producing 125 kw. of power. The facility has several air chambers that are open to the sea at the bottom and contain large floats; as the floats bob up and down, air is pushed through nozzles in the top of the chambers, turning air turbines that drive electric generators...
...near collision involved 308 "S.O.B.s," official parlance for souls on board, and had the two planes crashed it would have been the worst air collision ever. In 1971 a Japanese military plane struck an All Nippon Boeing 727 over Honshu, killing 162 people...
...mission parish in the western Honshu city of Yamaguchi, Arrupe became an aggressive Japanophile. So well did he learn the language (one of the seven he speakes) tht he went on to write eight books in it. He also wrote haiku, studied caligraphy, practiced the tea ceremony. Once he advertised a "great concert at the church. The musicians proved to be three Jesuits, one of them Arrupe. He still likes to sing Spanish songs at the top of his lungs in a deep bass...
Japan's own coastal waters: drilling began last week off the southern end of Honshu Island. Japanese industries buy copper from Chile, Zambia, Brazil and the Congo, nickel and iron from Australia, coal from Canada and the U.S. Far more is required. By 1975, Japan expects to need imports for 58% of its lumber, 83% of its copper, 85% of its coal and 90% of its iron...
...Takako became a lathe operator at a cadmium smelter near her home in Annaka, a city on the main island of Honshu. When she began suffering mysterious pains in 1961, no one even thought to blame cadmium. As protection against the toxic metal, which is widely used for electroplating, she wore special rubber clothing. Doctors diagnosed her ailment as "intestinal ulcers." But even eight years after she switched to clerical work, the pain continued. Two summers ago, it got so bad that Takako, 28, leaped from a speeding train and into a river...