Word: noma
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...case in point is Nagata, an older working-class district that was swept by a conflagration. Nagata's numerous small factories housed nearly 70% of Japan's shoe industry, which may not rise again. Yasunori Noma, 72, picked methodically through piles of bricks and fire-blackened equipment in search of salvageable machined tubing. Noma's one-man operation had supplied makers of car components. Without insurance, he faces total loss. ``I was thinking about retiring, but now I'll have to work,'' he remarked while putting a piece of steel tubing in a bag. He did not have much faith...