Word: kyushu
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...four days and four nights, it had rained in Kyushu. A swirling, kingdom-come downpour streamed down the mountain spine to the narrow coastal plain, spilling out the tiny rivers into a torrent of yellow foam; it took the huts and the houses, the roads and the railroads, the bridges and the viaducts; it brought down landslides to crush the upland villages. Countless thousands were marooned on islands of high ground, perched in quivering treetops, watching and fearful as the mud-churning waters flowed past. Rubbing her prayer beads, an old lady said: "I have lived a long time...
...grandiose fancy. His most disputed claim is that he was the first European to see Japan, and taught the Japanese how to use firearms. As Pinto tells it, he and two other Portuguese were on a Chinese ship which was blown off course and landed at an island off Kyushu. A Japanese prince sent for him, asked him if he knew of a cure for the gout. The prince was delighted when Pinto recommended a mixture of bark and water...
...Bataan, followed by MacArthur's new C-54, named Scap, flew on Wednesday to Itazuke on Kyushu Island. There a motor vehicle convoy picked up the general's party and carried us 86 miles to the naval base at Sasebo...
...Japan, the Kyushu Roller Canary Club air-expressed the two winners of the island's canary contest to the White House in Washington, as gifts to President and Mrs. Truman and daughter Margaret...