Word: ueno
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Matsumoto again proved he was worthy of his nickname by climbing 12,395-ft. Mt. Fuji carrying a heavy stone on his back. Next he ran 56 miles from Shirakawa to Fukushima. Last week he topped all previous feats by trotting nonstop from his hometown to Tokyo's Ueno Station. The distance": 117 miles, five times the historic run from Marathon to Athens. The time: 29 hours...
G.I.s who wandered into Tokyo's barnlike Ueno Museum last week saw themselves as the Japs had once tried to see them-reeling back in defeat...
...Tokyo, where beggary had once been rare, police seized 232 vagrants in Ueno Park. Some were children who lived by begging and stealing, spending the nights under piled debris. In a nation of fanatic workers, there would soon be 2,500,000 unemployed veterans of the home army alone. The figure would grow as soldiers were shipped home from overseas...