Word: kanagawa
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...ship's homeport, including a break-in, a carjacking and attempted marijuana smuggling. 'There had been some minor incidents from time to time before, but never anything like house-breaking, or incidents in such frequent succession,' says Yoshiaki Yasuda, liaison to the Navy's Yokosuka base for the Kanagawa prefectural government, which, along with the Yokosuka government, formally complained to the U.S. Navy twice in August. Extra-curricular shore leave activities weren't the only reason for Hejl's dismissal. The 41-year-old Kitty Hawk recently failed an engineering assessment and earlier this year in Singapore struck a buoy...
...none of this can be realized unless men ease the load on women by learning how to take care of themselves. "In Japan the women's issue is really a men's issue," says Sachiko Nakajima, a deputy director at the National Personnel Authority, which oversees public employees. Kanagawa prefecture, southwest of Tokyo, shares her view. A 1988 prefectural-office newsletter published a test to gauge male self-reliance, asking, Do you know where your suits, neckties, socks and underwear are kept? Have you ever used a washing machine? Can you name more than three friends of your children? Only...
...transport stolen IBM property to Japan. The bureau arrested five of these suspects, but the rest were in Japan last week. Among those accused are several high-ranking officials who allegedly approved the scheme, including Kisaburo Nakazawa, general manager of Hitachi's main computer manufacturing plant at Kanagawa...