Word: sunagawa
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...government advisory panel last month recommended that domestic coal production should be slashed 38%, to 10 million tons a year, by 1991. As a result, about 11,000 of the country's 24,000 miners would lose their jobs. Says Shigeo Shigetaka, a union official at the Mitsui Sunagawa coal mine: "The proposed cut is the same as a death sentence." To protest the plan, workers at Japan's eleven major mines mounted a 24-hour strike on Nov. 13. Some 7,000 supporters marched with union flags and placards in subfreezing weather. Still, their action did not prevent last...
Vice Admiral Kaneo Sunagawa, just back from the fronts, advanced fearfully into the outer chamber. It was 10 a.m. The glare in the eyes of the Vice Admiral grew unbearably, for His Imperial Majesty the Emperor Hirohito had generously entered. His Majesty expressed words of excruciating praise for Vice Admiral Sunagawa's victories at sea. The Vice Admiral was then admitted into the inner chamber, where he had a divine audience with Her Imperial Majesty the Empress. Their Majesties bestowed on Vice Admiral Sunagawa a crested cup and an unmentionably sacred sum of money. The Vice Admiral retired...
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