Word: niigata
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...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...
Last week the pestilential camps of the Japanese Empire continued to disgorge their victims (2,900 from Niigata, 3,495 from Nagoya, 1,100 from Tientsin). The record of horror grew. From Australia came a story of the flogging and raping of nuns in New Britain, of Jap cannibalism practiced on the bodies of U.S. and Australian soldiers. The stories, which seemed to have no end, differed only in the details of calculated cruelty...
...young officers became national heroes. The defense counsel presented 111,000 letters appealing for clemency. "Nine young men of Niigata chopped off nine little fingers in evidence of sincerity and sent them to the War Minister pickled in a jar of alcohol." With the fingers came an appeal for the murderers: "They broke the law but their motives were pure." Schoolboys wrote letters in blood. A German sausage maker contributed ten yen ($3) toward a fund for a monument which would show Inukai shaking hands with his assassins...
This system of natural contraception is based on research by Professor Kyusaku Ogino of Niigata, Japan and Professor Hermann Knaus of Graz, Austria. They observed that a woman is fertile only seven or eight days of her month and will rarely conceive outside that span. Professors Ogino and Knaus say, although not all investigators agree with them, that the fertile week always ends twelve days before menstruation begins. To love morally, canonically and practically a Catholic couple need practice continence only during the fertile week...