Word: shizuoka
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Within a week, other secondary cities got the same treatment-Shizuoka, Toyohashi, Fukuoka, Kagamigahara. Small as they were (under 325,000 population), they contained valuable war plants, arsenals, little "shadow factories" dispersed in flimsy dwellings. In some cases one raid was considered enough to write off the productive capacity of a city. One such case was the great naval arsenal at Kure, last big plant of its type...
...their foul intentions, Prince Saionji inevitably would be one of the first to be warned. Some secret source, human or divine, tipped off Japan's Exalted Octogenarian. From his rustic villa at Okitsu in a speeding motor car Prince Saionji raced through night and snow to nearby Shizuoka where he was guarded by 100 police who kept the secret from murderous mustards...
Next day, July 11, Japan suffered one of the worst quakes in a decade. In the tea and orange district of Shizuoka, 100 miles southwest of Tokyo, nine persons were killed, 101 injured, 125 houses destroyed. Mr. Greenspan had predicted other temblors "in Turkey, Italy and around the Mediterranean" to take place on or before July 14. In that case he seemed to be shooting all around the mark because minor temblors actually occurred on July 13 in Rumania and Bulgaria...