Word: kyushu
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...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...
...Japanese reasserted their dominance of a sport that was once little more than a parlor pastime for upper-class Englishmen. They have been building up their skill ever since Professor Seizo Tsuboi brought the game home from England in 1902. Now, from Hokkaido to Kyushu, every community has its table-tennis center, and it is practically a national game...
...reported a "high content of radioactive substance" over The Netherlands; West German scientists spoke of "an appreciable increase in radiation," and Paris' Municipal Hygiene Laboratory said that radioactivity over the city increased eight to nine times. From Tokyo came reports that rain which fell on the island of Kyushu contained 29,800 conts of radioactive particles per liter, compared with a norm of 20 to 30, and with 5,400 during last spring's U.S. tests in Nevada. Some of the radioactive particles fell during snowfalls in the U.S. and Canada...