Word: futubayama
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When 30 Japanese police tried to arrest her, they were met by a one-man banzai charge by 380-pound Futubayama, until recently Sumo wrestling* champion of Japan. Once subdued (it took 30 minutes), Futubayama renounced the goddess. Jiko-san was judged a religious paranoiac, and released. But the continuing popularity of her brand of paranoia was affirmed when the unofficial "New Masses Party" loosed two assassins on Labor Leader Katsumi Kikunani, whose Tokyo unionists were preparing a general strike...
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