Sentence examples for matsu from inspiring English sources
A new wing built of cedar was added to the back of the house to create two additional bedrooms with matsu, or pine, floors and a bathroom with a warm-water tub made of cedar and black-tile floors.
Because China bristles at any hint of an independent international identity for the country, it had to use a cumbersome name: "the Separate Customs Territory of Taiwan, Penghu, Kinmen, and Matsu (Chinese Taipei)".
The new government realises that, with WTO entry looming for both sides, the ban might prove impossible to maintain anyway.As a result it is proposing the opening of the three links at first to the offshore islands of Kinmen and Matsu at the end of this year.
In the agreement Taiwan was not described as the state it is, but as "the separate customs territory of Taiwan, Penghu, Kinmen and Matsu (Chinese Taipei)".In Taiwan officials hope that the New Zealand deal and a similar one due with Singapore will persuade others, such as India, to do the same.
Taiwan is already so deeply involved in the Chinese economy as both a foreign investor and a trading partner that the leverage gained over China by withholding the three links is slight.On March 21st, the KMT-controlled legislature took the first step, passing a law that allowed the three links between Fujian province and two tiny islands, Quemoy (Jinmen) and Matsu.
AS TAIWAN opened direct links between its islands of Kinmen and Matsu and the Chinese mainland cities of Xiamen and Fuzhou last week, the language was grandiose.
He ended the war in Korea, refused to allow America to get involved in rescuing the French in Indochina (one idea had been to drop three atom bombs there), forced Britain, France and Israel to back down over Suez and faced down China over the Quemoy-Matsu crisis.
Numazu Park contains a municipal aquarium and Sembon-matsu ("Thousand-Pines") Beach, noted for its ancient, gnarled trees.
We're particularly impressed by the fact that in spite of Quemoy-Matsu issue, Mme.
"Outlaw-Matsu" recounts the loyal Fujita's return to Japan, arranged by Imamura, and "Karayuki-San" profiles a Japanese woman who was sent to Malaysia to be a prostitute for Japanese soldiers and chose to stay.
"In Search of the Unreturned Soldiers in Malaysia," "In Search of the Unreturned Soldiers in Thailand," "Outlaw-Matsu Returns Home" and "Karayuki-San, the Making of a Prostitute" make up an informal tetralogy on a theme similar to that of "A Man Vanishes": how and why people would slip away from the rigid embrace of Japanese society.
