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Kawabata
Japanese novelist. His writing echoes ancient Japanese forms in prose influenced by post-World War I French literary currents such as Dadaism and Expressionism. His best-known novel is Snow Country (1948), the story of a forlorn geisha. His other major works (published together in 1952) are A Thousand Cranes and The Sound of the Mountain. The loneliness and preoccupation with death in many of his mature works may derive from his losing all his near relatives while he was young. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1968. He died a suicide.


Kawasaki
City (pop., 1995: 1,203,000) and port, Honshu, Japan. It lies on Tokyo Bay, between Tokyo and Yokohama. Almost completely destroyed in World War II, it has since been rebuilt. It is a major industrial center for machinery and chemicals, as well as having shipbuilding facilities. It is the site of a 12th-cent. Buddhist temple.


Napata
Town in ancient Egypt. Located below the fourth cataract of the Nile River, in the N part of modern Sudan, it was the capital (c.750-590 BC) of the Nubian kingdom of Cush and was part of the homeland of the Karmah culture. From the early 18th dynasty it came under Egyptian influence. Ruins in the area include pyramids and temples.


Yalta
City (pop., 1991 est.: 89,000), S Crimea, Ukraine. It faces the Black Sea on the S shore of the Crimean Peninsula. Settlement on the site dates from prehistoric times, but modern Yalta developed only in the early 19th cent., becoming a town in 1838. Its mild winters and scenic location between sea and mountains have made it one of the most popular vacation and health resorts of Ukraine. In 1945 during World War II it was the site of the Allied leaders' Yalta Conference.


Zapata
Mexican revolutionary and champion of the rural poor. A mestizo peasant, he was orphaned at 17 and took responsibility for his brothers and sisters. He led his neighbors in protests against the hacienda that had appropriated their land, and eventually led them in taking the land by force. He organized a small force to help F. Madero unseat P. Dí az. Dissatisfied with the pace of land reform under Madero, Zapata led a guerrilla campaign that took land back from the haciendas and returned it to the communal Indian ejidos. He was instrumental in the defeat of Gen. V. Huerta after Huerta deposed and assassinated Madero. With P. Villa he occupied Mexico City and began to implement land reform, but was tricked, ambushed, and killed by the forces of V. Carranza, whom the U.S. had recognized as president.

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