Word: kita
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hills above Kobe, Japan's fifth largest city (pop. 938,200), is the twelve-year-old, $3,471,600 gigantic Kita-machi Reservoir. On the southern part of the main Japanese Island of Honchu, on which are located Japan's chief cities, fell last week exceptionally heavy rains. Heaviest rainfall was in the highly industrialized area of Kobe, Osaka, Kyoto. One morning the Kita-machi Reservoir broke. A torrent swept down the city. Landslides slid into East Kobe's residential sections, threatened even neighboring Osaka. Kobe's Broadway, the Motomachi, was flooded with ten feet...
...advancing against positions held by troops of Generalissimo Chiang north of Canton. Pai's untrained soldiers really thought they were advancing "against the Japanese." When they found themselves facing fellow Chinese troops they stopped, camped, waited. Meanwhile at Nanking the Japanese Military Attaché, Major General Seiichi Kita, spilled a great many beans by nervously observing that if it should be proved that Japan had sold munitions to General Pai there would be nothing irregular in that. Cried this dimwit Attache: "Japan of course sells munitions to whoever will pay for them...
Reikichi Kits, leading Japanese Fancist, and a member of the Father land Society in Japan left Cambridge yesterday for Geneva, Switzerland, Kita, who has spent about four weeks in Cambridge, was a student in the Harvard Graduate School in 1918. After leaving Harvard Kita became a professor of Philosophy at Waseda University in Tokyo, and after this gradually became more and more in sympathy with fascism in Japan; the Fatherland Society is one of several Fascist groups in Japan...