Word: kunihiko
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...only 65 miles from the northeastern coast of Hokkaido. Faced with these uncertainties, the voters clearly decided that this was not the time for a potentially unworkable coalition of parties with irreconcilable policies. Some voters apparently supported the Liberal Democrats out of sympathy for Ohira's death. Concluded Kunihiko Takano, a respected economic commentator: "The people may not like the tendency to corruption of a long-entrenched political party, but at least it is stable, familiar and predictable...
...Japanese have even coined a word for the problem: engai. meaning monkey pollution. "These apes are just like furyo [juvenile delinquents]," says Kunihiko Shirai of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry. "Like the human furyo, they're creating trouble in many rural communities...
Even when they stay in their parks, the macaques have become rather disagreeable. Half tame, half wild, they mingle with park visitors, snarl at them, and delight in running away with food packages left on benches. "Once having tasted the amenities of human society," observes Kunihiko Shirai, "they feel they must continue to have them. no matter what...
...others, Welfare Minister Chikahiko Koizumi and Education Minister Kunihiko Hashida of Tojo's Pearl Harbor Cabinet (and four unlisted officials) succeeded in killing themselves. Admiral Shigetaro Shimada told a nervous U.S. officer: "Be quiet-I don't suicide." Many surrendered voluntarily, either to U.S. officers or Japanese police. At week's end only ten were still at large...