Word: kyushu
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Japan's disaster toll last week stood at 450 in the Kyushu mine explosion, and 162 in the three-train wreck near Yokohama. As far as anyone could determine, both tragedies resulted from faulty cotter pins, only an inch or two long...
...mining remains perilous. Within hours after the German miners were miraculously saved in Saxony, a coal dust explosion on the southern Japanese island of Kyushu killed more than 400 miners and injured hundreds of others...
...sunny day in 1945, a young kamikaze pilot named Masayuki Nagare was taking time off from war. As he strolled down the runway at the Japanese naval airbase on Kyushu, he idly picked up a stone. With the age-old Japanese reverence for the texture and shape of stone, he felt it in his hand and found an overwhelming sense of tranquility, an "odd composure" at a time when squadron after squadron of his buddies, with ceremonial samurai swords stowed in the cockpits of their Zeroes, roared off on one-way missions to Okinawa. From then on, he always carried...
...Runners-up: Britain's Mersey Tunnel joining Liverpool and Birkenhead (1934), Japan's Kan-mon Tunnel between the islands of Honshu and Kyushu (1958), both slightly over two miles long...
...friendly treatment in such matters as import licenses, taxes and government contracts, backed one or another of the eight party factions to the tune of $4,000,000. By common consent, it was the most corrupt convention in the party's short history. One happy delegate from southern Kyushu explained how the money went...