Word: honshu
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...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...
...such portentous words. The cherry blossoms were advancing northward through the islands. The first white buds had appeared at Kagoshima, Japan's southernmost and warmest port. Slowly they had taken all of Kyushu Island and, crossing the narrow straits, had established a beachhead on the rocky coast of Honshu. The blossoms last week sprouted near the Kure dockyards and on a thousand drowsy islands dotting the Inland...
...damage the low, thatch-and tile-roofed houses of the Japanese village of Saga, in the Honshu countryside 60 miles northwest of Kyoto. But in peaceful Saga (pop. 2,500), as everywhere in Japan, the defeat shook the complex structures of Shinto and Buddhism which had served most Japanese as religion...
...Japan, some thugs run to a gentlemanly stripe. One such is Matsukichi Tsumaki, 47, a sekkyo goto (preaching bandit), who last week stepped from Akita prison in northern Honshu, a free...
Emma and Kathleen were big, blowy and as like as two sisters, but there was nothing homey or lovable about either of them. Christened by Army weathermen and by the Red Cross, Kathleen was a typhoon* which last week rolled over Japan's main island of Honshu, leaving hundreds dead or homeless, and Emma was a hurricane which took two ferocious licks...