Word: tomioka
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...peaceful in Atami one afternoon last week. Visitors were pausing along the white Tokyo road notched in the pine-covered sea cliffs to take in the view. Aiko Nagai, a plump geisha, was landscaping her elaborate hairdo in preparation for the evening's entertainment. Heiji Tomioka, sake merchant, and his son were filling bottles and stone jugs for delivery to the crowded inns. In a warehouse by the docks, Kazuyoshi Kitamura was pouring gasoline from a drum into a five-gallon can. Yoshio Suzuki lounged about, watching Kazuyoshi. Yoshio, a hulking youth, as slow-witted as Lennie in John...
Sake Merchant Tomioka returned from fire fighting to find his own house burned down, his eight children homeless. Next day he started work on a new house. "By nightfall we'll have it up," he said. "I have no money left, but we can get supplies on credit and by tonight I'll be filling orders again for the inns...
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