Word: onomichi
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...effect was to put a brake on the entrenched power of the conservatives, who have ruled Japanese politics for 24 years. That was exactly what many voters intended. As Yasuo Onomichi, 27, a Tokyo office worker, put it: "I voted for the Communists although I don't like them. The L.D.P. is too strong. It must be checked." One issue on which the electorate seemed resigned was the widespread practice of illegal spending on entertaining voters and sometimes making outright cash purchases of votes. In pre-election campaigning, one candidate, for instance, reportedly spent $20,000 to entertain...
Berth Control. In Onomichi, Japan, after Mrs. Yukiko Hashiguchi, 34, sobbed to railroad officials that, somewhere down the line at a station she could not remember, she had stepped off her train for a drink of water with her seven-year-old son, who got lost, the officials phoned round, soon reported that her boy had been located, found her sobbing afresh because the train had gone on its way, carrying her luggage and five-year-old daughter...
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