Word: nishinomiya
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard seniors--captain linebacker Justin Frantz, quarterback Vin Ferrara, and punter Tim Griffin--will be a part of a squad of 43 Ivy League seniors who will face off with a team made up of Japan's college and university all-stars on January 7 in Osaka's Hankyo Nishinomiya Stadium...
...Tuesday night in Nishinomiya, Lieut. Tsutomu Fujii and 10 of his men from the Japanese Self-Defense Forces were digging away in such a ruin. They toiled through a frigid night lighted only by a full moon, while the daughter of the house stood nearby, sniffing back tears. Eventually they excavated her parents, gently placed their bodies on litters cobbled out of a broken door and a kitchen counter, and loaded them on a truck headed for a makeshift morgue. Lieut. Fujii had dug out seven corpses since morning, turning him into something of an instant expert. ``That couple seems...
...provide 16,000 rescuers by week's end. The national government could also have stepped in sooner to aid with coordination. Soldiers who did arrive were plagued by communications snafus: at midnight on Tuesday, one field commander was unable to get radio instructions and had to drive to the Nishinomiya city hall for information. In the context of such disarray, some Kobe residents wondered whether their rescuers were dangerously dispirited...
...Wednesday, 21 hours after the quake, an army rescue detail halted its rescue prematurely. A seven-story building in a working- class Nishinomiya district had rolled over on its side, reportedly trapping 15 to 20 people within. The soldiers removed two bodies and then stopped digging. Shrugged a young lieutenant: ``We think it's hopeless. No one could have survived...
...learned of the disaster only two hours after it struck. When he toured Kobe, Tokyo papers featured quotes from angry residents, along the lines of ``We don't need Murayama. We need drinking water.'' By the end of the week, welcome food and water shipments finally arrived at the Nishinomiya sports center and other large shelters--enough, in fact, so that authorities claimed everyone was getting two good meals a day. In some neighborhoods, the resumption of running water reduced the prospect of disease. Makers of goods ranging from helicopters to lingerie donated wares (the local yakuza had already turned...