Word: sakura
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...Kamoshida isn't the only one caught by surprise as Japan deals with the cascading effects of the crisis. The mall, Sakura City, opened in late 2006 to much fanfare, and initially housed 60 stores, including the area's only supermarket. Its closure has cost about 400 people their jobs, and effects are rippling out into the community, says Tadayasu Yamamoto, chairman of the Hitachi Chamber of Commerce and Industry. "Shop owners of the nearby shopping arcades are in trouble and so are the consumers," Yamamoto says. "We cannot allow the city's ray of light to be extinguished...
...Actually, someone does know: Masaru Kida, of the global meteorological agency Weathernews. Kida is in charge of predicting when the cherry trees across Japan will begin their annual spring blossoming, or sakura - the cue for millions of Japanese office workers to crowd city parks for boisterous sakura parties, or hanami. There, they'll savor the beauty and brevity of the delicate pink blossoms, so much like life itself, by getting extremely drunk...
...Sakura Christmas ’07-’08 is a junior history concentrator in Winthrop House. So far, her greatest achievement in life has been firing an AK-47 on the steppes of Mongolia. You can read her cartoon on Mondays...
When I opened my package, I couldn't believe how deeply red the meat was. The Japanese call it sakura, which means "cherry blossom," because of the color. I kept waiting to slice it up to serve with goat cheese and crackers and an earthy bottle of Châteauneuf-du-Pape, but my wife Cassandra kept saying she wasn't hungry yet. Cassandra, I was learning, takes her clichés pretty seriously. When she was finally hungry enough to eat a horse, I cut us some thin slices...
...Sakura Christmas...