Word: shikoku
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...Japanese aircraft carriers and battleships were idiosyncratic, unique, individually laid down in Yokosuka and Shikoku shipyards and fitted with quirky characteristics. Superstructures set too far aft. Smokestacks emanating from the ship's hull. These were the vessels that captured my imagination. For one thing, these ships were all at the bottom of the Pacific, heroically overwhelmed, it seemed to me, by the sheer numbers of nondescript American ships. And the Tamiya Waterline models, with their jeweler's attention to detail and scholar's obsessive historical accuracy, somehow evoked the mystery of these lost ships. The kits didn't bring...
...people of Uwajima know the sea. Located at the western tip of rural Shikoku Island, they go out to fish in nearby waters and culture pearls in the bay. From their history they understand that the ocean can be capricious and cruel...
CALLING ALL CRANES The relationship between Japan and cranes has been a strained one. World War II disturbed their natural habitats, and the subsequent decline of the country's wetlands kept the birds away. But now a group on the island of Shikoku aims to woo them back. The Kanonji Society to Call Back the Cranes is promoting cleanup efforts and raising money to preserve crane habitats. The group also plans to broadcast crane sounds at volumes loud enough to attract any of the birds flying overhead...