Word: shizuoka
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Kaoru Ikeya, 19, of Shizuoka Prefecture, southwest of Tokyo, was chronically broke. A $28-a-month lathe operator, he gave $25 of each pay check to his widowed mother. But a little thing like lack of money never kept Kaoru from his normally expensive hobby-amateur astronomy. Somehow he accumulated the cash for parts and materials, and all by himself he built an ambitious telescope...
Like architects the world over, Tange also eyed with excitement the new world of space-spanning shells. For Ehime's convention hall, he tried a low, curving shell set with 133 ceiling lights (see color); for Shizuoka, he designed a hyperbolic paraboloid auditorium that holds an audience of 5,000. His Tokyo City Hall this year received the first International Grand Prix awarded by France's Architecture d'Aujourd...
...movement got its start last year when portly Dr. Teiji Ugai, 63, president of Shizuoka Pharmaceutical College, was worrying over reports that the tea plant avidly takes up strontium, including radioactive strontium 90 (TIME, Oct. 27) and that port of New York authorities had detected radioactivity in Japanese tea. Shizuoka prefecture, southwest of Tokyo, grows more than half Japan's tea, and the industry was already ailing before radiation sickness...
Sadao Ohmura, 32, a surgeon in the municipal hospital at Shizuoka, near Yokohama, had waited ever since he was a medical student for a chance to prove his contention that "we Japanese are more skillful with our hands than Westerners." Last week, with his abdomen tense and sore, he knew that the eagerly hoped-for day had arrived. Staggering into an operating room, he got a nurse to sterilize his midriff and hands, help him into a sterile smock and mask. Then he clambered onto the operating table. When Chief Surgeon Mikio Takahashi protested, Dr. Ohmura replied: "I have only...
...many generations Ichiro Ishikawa's ancestors had lived in Ueno, a remote, semifeudal village in Shizuoka prefecture. Ueno's rich, black volcanic soil yielded rice, corn, sweet potatoes and garden vegetables. There were nightingales, cuckoos, profusely blooming wild chrysanthemums; and, in summer, gorgeous swarms of red dragonflies. Life in Ueno was good...