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Since Premier Inukai had been assassinated by men of the fighting services, Japanese public opinion assumed that War Minister Lieut.-General Sadao Araki must hand in his resignation, demanded by Japanese custom. Instead General Araki took the line that Premier Inukai had been assassinated by cadets and therefore it would be sufficient if General Nobuyoshi Muto, Director of Military Education, should resign. This he did-and was promptly raised to membership in the Supreme War Council. Meanwhile the police continued to hold secret the names of the assassins of Premier Inukai who voluntarily gave themselves up. From the first, strong...
...mold his mind into stern channels the young Prince received as his first tutor General Nogi, famed for his bloody capture of Port Arthur. When Emperor Meiji died, Tutor Nogi impressed his pupil by reviving the custom of junshi (''following in death"). He and Mrs. Nogi committed harakiri. Two years later the Crown Prince received a: tutor the resolute Admiral Togo who had destroyed the entire Russian fleet at the Battle of the Sea of Japan and who remains alive to this day, telling the tale...
...custom started by Edward VII. Flunkeys bring food, linen, silver from Buckingham Palace...
...book now in the Fogg Museum at Harvard is a folio of one hundred and fifty-seven leaves. It contains twelve ornamental initials and one hundred and one woodcut illustrations. The book is rubricated in red and blue, and initials and illustrations are colored by hand, according to the custom of the time in Germany...
...matter of routine the "Old Fox" was decorated posthumously by Emperor Hirohito with the Grand Cordon of the Rising Sun and Paulownia. His frail corpse, enclosed in the austere white pine coffin dictated by Japanese custom, lay in the hall of his official residence where he was shot down, while 500 officials, including representatives of all parties, paid their formal respects, pronounced fulsome eulogies. That evening the body was cremated. Next day part of the ashes were sent to Okayama, the rest interred at Tokyo...