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...Kantor. His main priorities are reenergizing Japan's flagging economy through massive public spending and deregulation. Having served just 18 months, current Prime Minister Tommiichi Murayama attributed his resignation to the strain of the past year's events which included the gas attack on Tokyo's subways and the Kobe earthquake...
Iguchi, who is now an American citizen, shed his Japanese roots early on. A native of Kobe, he graduated from high school in 1969 and swiftly lit out for the territory, which in this case meant Southwest Missouri State University, in Springfield. Iguchi, one of 54 foreigners in a student body of more than 12,000, majored in psychology and became a cheerleader before graduating in 1975. "He was a little shy," recalls retired mathematics professor Howard Matthews, who advised foreign students at the school. Matthews remembers Iguchi as "an A and B student and a courteous young...
...nation has the bad luck to sit on the meeting place of three tectonic plates. As these plates grind against each other, they generate about one-tenth of the world's annual allotment of earthquakes, including plenty of lethal quakes like the one that killed 5,500 people in Kobe in January and the famous 1923 Tokyo temblor in which more than 142,000 perished...
...June 22, 1945, the U.S. had conquered Okinawa, just 350 miles from Kyushu, the southernmost of Japan's four main islands. LeMay's bombers set those islands aflame. From March to May, enormous sections of Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya, Kobe, Kawasaki and Yokohama were incinerated. The raids on Tokyo had to be called off after May because scarcely any major targets were left. Of the carnage, LeMay said, "No point in slaughtering civilians for the mere sake of slaughter." He was after military production. But, he added, "the entire population got into the act and worked to make those airplanes...
LAST MONDAY A COUNTRY THAT HAD been convulsed just two months earlier by a natural disaster, the devastating Kobe earthquake, was assailed by the most synthetic of catastrophes: a poison created by man, and a madness that was strictly human. In what could only have been a carefully coordinated, painstakingly planned atrocity, an apparently diluted form of a nerve gas called sarin, a weapon of mass killing originally concocted by the Nazis, was placed simultaneously in five subway cars at morning rush hour, killing 10 victims and sickening thousands more...