Word: izu
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...World. In Ito, on Izu Peninsula, Japan, natives celebrated the beginning of their annual three-day shiritsumi festival, during which the law allows any man to pinch any woman...
Jacoulet's designs average 15 or 20 colors (he once made one with 320). To be transferred to paper, each color requires a separate block of wood; the colors (boiled with seaweed) are rubbed into it. His cherry-wood blocks come from the volcanic islands off the Izu peninsula...
...three island chains which constitute steppingstones to Japan (see map), the Ryukyu line is the most inviting. Iwo, already serving as an advanced base for fighter bombers, is too small; the rocky Bonin and Izu Islands, which would be defended as savagely as Iwo, are also too small. The Kurils, extending northeast toward Russian Kamchatka, are not much larger, and are blanketed by weather almost as foul as that in the Aleutians...
...Tokyo area, the fast carrier task groups of the Pacific Fleet were on the rampage again. Presumably still operating as Task Force 58, under Vice Admiral Marc Andrew Mitscher, they appeared defiantly this week southeast of Kyushu Island, where they were ringed about by enemy bases in the Izu Islands, in Japan proper and in the Ryukyus. If the Jap Navy-or that part of it has been repaired-wanted a fight, it could have...