Word: shima
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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DIED. HIDEO SHIMA, 96, a whizbang designer of Japan's 1960s bullet train, which, while not faster than a speeding bullet, still transported passengers at breakneck speeds, allowing rural folk much desired access to cities; in Tokyo...
Tokyo happening. Visitors to the Earth Day festival at Yume-no-shima (Dream Island), a park built on what was once a trash dump, can take in a concert or play, watch milk cartons being turned into postcards and cooking oil into soap, or tour two nearby garbage-processing centers...