Word: niigata
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week two Soviet ships, Tobolsk and Krilyon, steamed into Japan's Niigata harbor to pick up the first load of 975 repatriates, who had marched to the embarkation center waving red flags and singing The Song of Kim II Sung. The minds of most of their passengers had long been prepared by Soren, the Communist-financed society that controls 90% of Korean schools in Japan. The Koreans had had an undeniably miserable time in Japan. After years of work, most had less than 15,000 yen ($42) to their names. In an old U.S. Air Force barracks, they...
...only .04 units. Highest count was from tuna caught in Bikini waters in 1956: 53.5 units. The scientists also examined the ashes of 20 persons, taken from burial urns, and found that their strontium 90 count varied from .06 units for an elderly man who lived in Niigata, to 4.1 units for a survivor of the Nagasaki bombing who died...
...Wrong Spirit. In Niigata, Japan, after her home was destroyed by fire, Mrs. Iwama, 25, protested in a letter to the Niigata Nippo that friends had been sending sake as a condolence gift: "At such a time one hopes that the men will work cleaning up the debris, but all they do is drink sake, talk much, get drunk, and end up snoring loudly. It is very discouraging to a poor housewife...
...herringbone climb and the Christiania turn, and skiing became one of Japan's top winter sports. Last week, Japan's skiers staged a big two-day national ski meet. The ski-happy Japanese hauled 50 freight cars full of fresh snow out of chilly northern Niigata and, as shown here, heaped it atop a huge ski jump in balmy Tokyo's Korakuen stadium. The Transportation Ministry and a local newspaper, which sponsored the meet and paid for the snow, lost only 959,950 yen ($2,667) on the event...