Word: osaka
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...import-export business in Osaka...
Still the emphasis was on speed. By the end of last week, 11,716 wounded and sick had been moved (mostly by combat cargo plane) from Korea to southern Japan; 9,860 had been flown on to general hospitals near Osaka and Tokyo. But less than half stayed there; most of the rest* went winging across the Pacific. They had a stopover at the Army's Tripler Hospital in Hawaii for a thorough checkup and a couple of nights of vibrationless sleep, and were soon back...
...integrity. In a Page One box next day it ran a profuse apology to its readers. Gravely, Asahi's board of directors met in emergency session, fired not only Nagaoka but his two superiors in Kobe, as well as the managing editor of Asahi's Osaka edition who had relayed the story. Nine other Asahi news executives caught blistering reprimands. Said lanky Kanichiro Shinobu, managing editor of the Tokyo edition and one of those reprimanded: "This is very embarrassing...
...last ten years, Astronomer Tsuneo Saeki of the Osaka observatory (90 miles from Hiroshima) has been keeping an eye on Mars. About 4 a.m. on Jan. 16, he saw a great grey cloud on the face of the red planet. It rose some 60 miles into the air, he estimated, and covered a roughly circular area about 900 miles in diameter. He watched it tensely for 30 minutes; then clouds in the earth's atmosphere cut off the view. When the weather finally cleared, the clouded side of Mars had turned away...