Word: matsushiro
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...town sought out for its pickles, its horseradishes and its homemade buckwheat noodles. Next to the feminine grace notes of a Kyoto, say, the northern city feels a decidedly masculine place. Its colors are brown and black, its aesthetic one of straw and stone. On its southern edge is Matsushiro, a castle town of old samurai houses and the remains of a military academy; to the north is Togakushi, a sacred, templed mountain favored by ascetics and home to a ninja museum...
...assured worried county officials that a "swarm" of hundreds of small tremors near San Francisco would not threaten the city. The Japanese have made successful forecasts days and weeks in advance. One measure of their accuracy was the unhappiness caused among members of the hotel and sightseeing industries at Matsushiro in 1967, when seismologists accurately predicted that a small swarm would be followed by a series of larger tremors. Such predictions, the merchants complained, were bad for business...
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