On the eve of the poll, Shigekuni Hayamizu, a shopkeeper from the centre of Osaka, the third-largest city, summed up the public's mood on the snap election.
This little medieval trading city summed up for the British, as Verdun did for the French, all the horror of that war.
The city sums up different times and phases of development in its structuring, so as to make it a complex structure of passages, and of temporal thresholds.
City records sum up its status succinctly, even dismissively: "Full".
The new house is beautiful, a corner of paradise — a suburb in the city — the sum of my parts.
The man at the heart of the racket, Ma De, was given a suspended death sentence in 2005 for paying a provincial official 800,000 yuan ($97,000 then) to become party secretary of Suihua city, a sum he had quickly recouped by selling posts below him.
What makes a city, in sum, truly civilized?
The demography of the gold-rush city was summed up concisely by a real-estate firm that advertised it could "transact business in the English, French, German, Spanish and Italian languages".
"Health and human services and community programs are going to be slashed in the budget, and when you look at the budget analyst's report, it confirms my earlier suspicions, which is that the Cup is going to cost the city significant sums of money.
I combined that data with each user's current city and summed the number of friends between each pair of cities.
