Word: kotsu
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Tokyo's besieged commuters daily battle what they call kotsu jigoku - literally, traffic hell - but they are about to get welcome relief from at least one of its irritations. At a particularly nasty intersection, where queues of buses now snarl traffic, a group of entrepreneurs plans to build the city's first indoor bus terminal. The moving force behind the new, $25 million station is a man who has a special interest in the comfort of Japanese bus riders: Kenji Osano, a burly, self-made millionaire who owns most of the buses that will use the new terminal...
...sound, and ever since the professor has scoffed at those who claim to have heard the lotus. But last week, like the others, Professor Lotus himself was listening again in the Tokyo swamps. He heard nothing. But there were those who did. Some told him the sound was like "kotsu." Some thought it was more like "quew," very softly spoken...
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