Word: kyushu
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...action at Okinawa, on the battleship USS Tennessee. While he was on that ship, a kamikaze pilot provided him with his closest brush with death, narrowly missing him, Admiral Deyo, and Captain Heffernan on the suicidal plunge. After visiting the Phillipines, Morison planned to participate in the long-awaited Kyushu landing in October; the product of other Harvard men--the atomic bomb--ended that...
...even then was Emma's anger expended. After a vicious sideswipe at Korea (where she killed eleven people and caused $280,000 damage), she headed into Japan's southern island of Kyushu. Here, blowing at speeds up to 115 m.p.h., she devastated hundreds of square miles, smashing some 2,000 houses and killing an estimated 30 Japanese. In her sultry wake fires sprang up, one of which half razed the city of Uozo...
...tale seriously since Emperor Hirohito conceded in 1946 that he was only human, after all. Last week, determined to clear up the matter of the nation's divine origins, a band of 30 jeep-riding scientists swarmed around the mountain peak of Takachiho on the island of Kyushu, where, according to legend. Ho-wori-no-mikoto, the heavenly ancestor of emperors, came to earth...
Takikawa. wearing a floppy white hat and open-necked shirt against the hot Kyushu sun. promised to let the myths fall where they may. "Prewar history taught in the schools has been discarded as false," he explained. "A race which loses its history becomes a rudderless ship. That's the dangerous position Japan is in today. To get out of it, the Japanese must look facts in the face." To the local citizens who have always considered themselves heaven-sent. Takikawa bluntly said: "We will not distort or slant our findings to please you. If this sounds cold...
Pavilion with a View. Once at home again, Sesshu turned down the position of court painter to devote the rest of his life to painting in his Cloud Valley retreat and wandering through northern Kyushu, building landscape gardens, writing verse, and painting. When he happened on a particularly striking landscape, he built a "Pavilion of Heaven-Opening Picture," lingered there until he had exhausted the view...