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O.J. Simpson lawyer Johnnie Cochran is representing four victims of the Oklahoma bombing in their suit against Imperial Chemical Industries, a company that makes fertilizer like that used in the bomb. They claim ICI was negligent for not including an additive to make the fertilizer less volatile. ICI says there...
When a senior Chinese leader dies, the order of names of the official pallbearers, the effusiveness of the obituary, the length of the mourning period, all provide signs of the individuals and policies that are in favor. Chen's death was long expected, and the delay in mounting his funeral...
Every Japanese school had a shrine that contained a picture of the Emperor. Every Japanese had to jump to attention at the mere mention of the imperial name. History lessons began with myths told as truth about the divine ancestry of the Emperor and, by extension, the Japanese race. Self...
Not every Japanese believed in the imperial cult, but for nearly two decades State Shinto monopolized Japan's spiritual and political life. No wonder that when the cult was abolished by order of the Allies after their victory in 1945, it left a lot of confused Japanese behind. What had...
More threatening are the groups that wish to restore the imperial cult. The writer Yukio Mishima collected around himself a band of uniformed young men who shared his passion to make the Japanese--the military forces in particular--once again worship the Emperor. His student followers ended up by worshipping...