Word: osaka
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Jeanette Hamber Osaka, Japan...
...largest U.S. operations affected were Procter & Gamble, Hewlett-Packard, Eli Lilly and Caterpillar. Procter & Gamble, which runs a $2 billion business in Japan, will be unable to use its 30-story office tower for several months, and is operating out of nearby Osaka. Lilly's main plant is still working but a new one, due to open this month, will need weeks of repair. Hewlett-Packard's electronics plant went back to work at 60% capacity last week. ``Shoot,'' says Dorwin Larsen, general manager of the Shin Caterpillar Mitsubishi joint venture in Kobe, ``it's not that significant...
Scawthorn happened to be in Osaka when the quake hit and spent the next several days surveying the damage in Kobe. What he saw convinced him that relatively simple precautions could have prevented the most common form of damage: the roofs and upper stories of buildings crashing down onto lower floors. Such ``pancake'' collapses accounted for 90% of the 5,090 deaths in Kobe...
Longtime emphasis on the threat in Central Pacific Japan had created an atrophy of vigilance in the western part of the country: in Tokyo 27% of homes kept emergency supplies; in Osaka the number had shrunk to 2.6%. While Tokyo's army and civilian officials conducted yearly drills to test their coordination, military officials reluctantly admit that in the Kobe area they...
Tens of thousands of people, appalled at the lack of goods and services, picked up their belongings and set out on foot for Osaka, 19 miles away. Yoko Kawaguchi, 28, dressed in fashionable clothes, pushed her daughter Aya, 14 months, around piles of cement and glass. ``We're going to my sister's house near Osaka,'' she said, pointing to her husband driving ahead of her on a motorcycle loaded with clothing. ``We're worried that our house might not survive another strong quake.'' An elderly man stayed put, sitting in front of his shattered house, holding a flask. ``Everything...