Word: kumamoto
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...Kumamoto," said Captain Bach to the sergeant. Then he turned to the prisoner and asked in a more personal tone: "Kumamoto? Where about in Kumamoto...
...Kumamoto," whispered the prisoner...
...pitched the biggest Superfort strike yet. Nearly 600 planes dropped 4,000 tons of fire bombs on four new targets in Kyushu and the toe of Honshu. The Japs could begin counting off Kure, greatest naval base on the Inland Sea; Ube, coal and magnesium center; Shimonoseki, seaport; Kumamoto, military and industrial city...
...fancy that Koizumi, who "does not mention . . . that . . . Hearn was compelled to support 13 people on his small salary," also fails to mention that Hearn's salary at the Government college at Kumamoto was reduced soon after Hearn became a citizen of Japan-ostensibly because a "native" could not possibly be worth as much as a "foreigner...
...year (1853) which brought Commodore Perry and the West to Japan, brought to the Samurai (military gentry) family of Motoyama in Kumamoto a son, named Hikoichi. In time he was graduated from Keio University, became successively a government official, financial manager of a newspaper, director of reclamation projects. At 36 he took over a struggling political daily in Osaka, "Pittsburgh of Japan." Renaming it Mainichi (Every Day), he banished partisanship, began introducing the brisk interest of Western journalism. Japanese liked it so well that he was soon able to buy control of Tokyo's Nichi-Nichi...