The Japanese School Grammar, based on Hasimoto Grammar, has been widely used in Japanese teaching and played an active role in the grammar teaching as well.

Nothing of importance occurred to either of them until, as luck would have it, they met on a hill near Hashimoto, which is half-way between the two cities.

To an interpreter Private Hasamoto said: ". . . Finally my feelings as a true Japanese soldier disappeared. ... I had nothing to lose by surrendering.

But next morning Private Akiyoshi Hasamoto and some of his friends marched, hands up, to the U.S. lines and surrendered.

State media say the bridge passed construction tests on Monday and it opened to traffic on Thursday, along with an undersea tunnel.