Word: maizuru
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...While flights were canceled, factories shuttered and millions of people were left without power throughout the archipelago on Wednesday, Japanese television stations aired nonstop storm coverage, including riveting shots of gushing waters and daring rescues. In the western port city of Maizuru, 36 elderly tourists and their driver were stranded on the roof of their bus overnight as the overflowing Yura River swirled around them. The passengers later told Japan's Kyodo News service that they broke the windows of the bus with a hammer and then sang the 1961 hit Ue o Muite Arukou (known abroad as the Sukiyaki...
...CHARGED. Maizuru Haiji Abduallah, Mujahid Haiji Abdullah, Waehamadi Wadao, Saman Waekaj and Arifin Bin Ali, with plotting to bomb embassies and tourist spots; in Bangkok. Police allege that the four Thais and one Singaporean are members of Jemaah Islamiah, the regional terrorist group allegedly behind the Bali bombing in October 2002. Police say the men planned to blow up the American, Australian, British, Israeli and Singaporean embassies in Bangkok, as well as tourist attractions in the Thai capital, Phuket and Pattaya...
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