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Japan's disaster toll last week stood at 450 in the Kyushu mine explosion, and 162 in the three-train wreck near Yokohama. As far as anyone could determine, both tragedies resulted from faulty cotter pins, only an inch or two long...
...Japan's Kanto Plain, on which Tokyo and Yokohama nestle, makes smog differently but just as deadly. Countless industrial plants burn soft coal or oil, said Lieut. Colonel Harvey W. Phelps, but few have proper smokestacks. Acrid smoke can be seen billowing out of doors, windows and ventilators near ground level...
...which was not only the most destructive earthquake ever recorded but also, in all probability, the most serious natural calamity in the long and frequently calamitous history of the human race." The earthquake and the succeeding tornado-whipped fires killed an estimated 140,000 persons in Tokyo and nearby Yokohama. The great fires; known historically as the "Flowers of Edo," destroyed nearly seven square miles of downtown Tokyo, an area, Busch estimates, that was "not quite twice the area covered by the great London. Chicago and San Francisco fires put together...
Pacific and round the world. The American President Lines' President Roosevelt, newly converted to an all-first-class cruise ship, made her maiden voyage (from San Francisco to Honolulu, Yokohama, Hong Kong, Manila and Kobe) last month. Canadian Pacific's Empress of Canada, on the Caribbean and Mediterranean routes, is another recent and successful addition to the cruise fleet. The Home Lines is building an unnamed 34,000-ton "Ship of Tomorrow" that will be ready in 1963 for summer and fall transatlantic service from Montreal and for winter-spring operation from New York to the Caribbean. Grace...
Aboard the Japanese freighter Oshima Maru, which left Yokohama last week, were two stone garden lanterns on their way to Hyannisport, Mass. The lanterns -one a three-ton, nine-foot model called kasuga, the other a one-ton, four-footer called yukimi ("snow-viewing" lantern)-are a present for President Kennedy from Professor Gunji Honoso, silver-haired international law expert at Tokyo's Aoyama Gakuin University, who got to know the President back in the days when Kennedy was a junketing Senator. Cost of both lanterns...