Word: tamotsu
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Those monkeys were like angels," recalls Tamotsu Ueda, former mayor of Oita, Japan. It was an April day in 1958, and Emperor Hirohito himself had come with his Empress to visit Mount Takasaki Natural Monkey Park. When the monarch set foot in the park, some 500 monkeys, as if on cue, spilled out of the woods to welcome him. One affable creature even jumped up on the Empress's shoulder...
...disaster underscores the problem of crowded skies. Near-collisions have risen to an estimated 200 per year in Japan and 600 in the U.S. Ichikawa's instructor, Captain Tamotsu Kuma, said that "with civilian jets flying upstairs all the time and civilian propeller planes downstairs," it was almost inevitable that military aircraft would continue to stumble into commercial air lanes...