Word: kyushu
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...suffer from kogai-environmental disruption. Cars in Tokyo cause an eye-stinging photochemical smog. Nearly every major city in Japan has its version of "Yokohama asthma," a wheezing caused by air pollution. Noxious industrial wastes wash around the bays of Tokyo, Osaka and Dokai in northern Kyushu. Amid the public outcry against kogai, a 15-year-old student recently scolded Premier Eisaku Sato for taking no action against pollution. "Isn't the government treating the people more or less like livestock?" he asked...
...Bureau Chief Edwin Reingold's many dispatches for this week's cover story on Japan, its people, and its place in the world and history. The Japanese could easily return the compliment. Reingold and his colleagues, Frank Iwama and S. Chang, covered the country from Hokkaido to Kyushu and Okinawa. They attended cheerful festivals as well as grim student riots; they interviewed philosophers, business magnates, artists, shopkeepers, critics and politicians (including Premier Sato). "In a way, I have been working on this cover ever since I arrived here just one year ago, collecting interviews, impressions and material," says...
...nukes. Unlike Peking, Tokyo has a head start toward a delivery system; two weeks ago, the Japanese became the fourth member of the exclusive space club (others: the U.S., the Soviet Union and France) by putting a 20-lb satellite into orbit from a launch pad on Kyushu Island...
...Kumon tensed as A-4 Skyhawk fighter-bombers rose from the flattop to meet him. But he plunged ahead to circle the carrier and position one of his two companions for sure, close shots of the huge ship. Then, unharmed, the three Japanese fled toward their home base on Kyushu...
...Power Remains. That sounded impressive, but the largest and most important facilities were not on the list, such as the giant airbases at Tachikawa and Yokota near Tokyo, the sprawling naval bases at Yokosuka and Sasebo in Kyushu. And many of the items on the U.S. roster were small indeed: a brace of tiny and long-unused airstrips near Tokyo, a handful of gunnery ranges, a maneuver area near the base of Mt. Fuji, a golf course and a laundry...