Word: kyoto
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Flying Fortresses, such as those evacuated from Java to Australia, could easily bomb the great Jap base on Formosa, 300 miles southeast of the Chinese airdrome at Lishui. With flights no longer than Fortresses have made in other battle areas, bombers from Lishui and Chuhsien could reach Kobe or Kyoto in Japan itself...
members of the hierarchy-Bishops Charles S. Reifsnider of North Kwanto, Shirley H. Nichols of Kyoto and Norman S. Binsted of Tohoku, all of whom were in the U. S. to attend next month's Episcopal triennial General Convention at Kansas City-that they too must resign. The four native Japanese bishops who will now rule the church's 30,000 communicants voted to reject all foreign financial aid. Probable shot: withdrawal of the 85 U. S. Episcopal missionaries in Japan (they could not live on a rice-Christian's income), closing of many an Episcopal mission...
Fortunate are U. S. Episcopalians to have as their presiding bishop in such a crisis the Right Rev. Henry St. George Tucker, Bishop of Virginia. Lanky, practical Bishop Tucker spent 24 years as a missionary in Japan, eleven of them as Bishop of Kyoto, still claims he can preach more fluently in Japanese than in English...
Walter Nichols, Kyoto, Japan--Kent School, Kent, Connecticut...
...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 of water. In Kobe's main railway station water was five feet deep...