Word: daimyo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...youngsters, such as the assassins of ex-Finance Minister Inouye (TIME, Feb. 22) and the Empire's No. 1 financier, Baron Dr. Takuma Dan (TIME, March 14). Most famed, almost deified in Japan, are the Forty-Seven Ronin, heroes of feudal thuggery who avenged the death of their daimyo (overlord) by slaying his enemy, then committed hara-kiri themselves, and are now buried around a Tokyo temple where pious Japanese keep incense ever burning before their tombs...