Word: nagoya
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...washed away by floods. At Nagano, 20 persons were blown to bits by a fireworks explosion. Many mountain villages were wiped out by forest-fires between Kobe and Shimonoseki on the Empire's main island. A cyclone howled through the town of Fukui, unroofed houses, wrecked communications. At Nagoya, a despondent Japanese supplemented the work of the elements by throwing himself under a freight train. He was killed, the locomotive and 16 cars were wrecked, traffic from Tokyo to Shimonoseki stood still...
...Imperial Japanese Government, acting upon a bill passed by the Japanese Diet, announced that next week it will establish 22 Thought Control Offices in such leading Japanese cities as Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya, Hiroshima, Sendai, Sapporo and Fukuoka, with Thought Control Substations in 15 other cities...
...Perils of Pauline or Shenandoah. The actors produce sobs and choked voices as easily as did the rural players of the '905 when informed that the dour gentleman in hip boots was about to foreclose the mortgage. Principal among the actors is Tokyjiro Tsutsui of Kyoto. Osaka and Nagoya, who stalks about in the dark robes of "The Shadow Man" and finally commits harakiri with a four-foot knife...