Word: kobe
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...nation has the bad luck to sit on the meeting place of three tectonic plates. As these plates grind against each other, they generate about one-tenth of the world's annual allotment of earthquakes, including plenty of lethal quakes like the one that killed 5,500 people in Kobe in January and the famous 1923 Tokyo temblor in which more than 142,000 perished...
...June 22, 1945, the U.S. had conquered Okinawa, just 350 miles from Kyushu, the southernmost of Japan's four main islands. LeMay's bombers set those islands aflame. From March to May, enormous sections of Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya, Kobe, Kawasaki and Yokohama were incinerated. The raids on Tokyo had to be called off after May because scarcely any major targets were left. Of the carnage, LeMay said, "No point in slaughtering civilians for the mere sake of slaughter." He was after military production. But, he added, "the entire population got into the act and worked to make those airplanes...
LAST MONDAY A COUNTRY THAT HAD been convulsed just two months earlier by a natural disaster, the devastating Kobe earthquake, was assailed by the most synthetic of catastrophes: a poison created by man, and a madness that was strictly human. In what could only have been a carefully coordinated, painstakingly planned atrocity, an apparently diluted form of a nerve gas called sarin, a weapon of mass killing originally concocted by the Nazis, was placed simultaneously in five subway cars at morning rush hour, killing 10 victims and sickening thousands more...
Longy School of Music. Edward M. Pickman Concert Hall, 27 Garden St., Cambridge. 876-0956, ext. 120. Benefit concert to aid the children, teachers and administration of Kobekko Land, a children's music school and the music department of Kobe Women's College, both severely damaged in the recent Kobe earthquake on Sat., March...
Still, in December 1994 and early January 1995, the Nikkei 225 seemed headed for 19,000. On the morning of Jan. 17, 1995, however, an earthquake measuring 7.2 devastated the Japanese city of Kobe-and the erstwhile stable Nikkei index plummeted more than 7% in a week. Despite that, over the next three weeks Leeson bought thousands more contracts betting that the Nikkei would stabilize at 19,000. "He was going for the big kill," says the director of one trading house in Singapore. A Japanese trading executive remembers wondering what Barings was doing. "We figured that it is such...