Word: kawachi
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Dates: during 1957-1957
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During the course of a notably fair and painstaking trial 60 miles from Tokyo, Japanese Judge Yuzo Kawachi had effectively silenced the eagle screams. Verdict: guilty. Sentence: three years' imprisonment, suspended (i.e., not to be served). "I was terribly impressed with that Japanese court," said Alvin Owsley, the official American Legion observer. "I stood in awe. I was amazed at the fairness of Judge Kawachi...
Only three days before Girard walked up the gangplank, the Japanese Ministry of Justice was still weighing legal protests and public clamorings that Judge Kawachi had been too lenient, that Girard ought to be haled in for retrial. Candy Girard, onetime B-girl, even got notes from Japanese suggesting that she ought to go commit harakiri. But the Justice Ministry decided in the end to let Girard go home. Said the ministry, with remarkably broad understanding of the case's basic meanings: "We pay our respects to the [U.S. Supreme Court] verdict that gave Japan jurisdiction over the case...
...hilltop after luring her onto a rifle range with promises of spent brass cartridges (TIME, June 17), Army Specialist Third Class William S. Girard entered a Japanese courtroom one day last week to hear the verdict of his celebrated 86-day trial. Girard, intoned Chief Judge Yuzo Kawachi, was guilty...
...Judge Kawachi spared no one in his summing up. He chided the band of Japanese shell-pickers scavenging the U.S. firing range for precious brass, implied that the U.S. military authorities at the range were almost criminally negligent, and said that Girard himself, "immature in his thinking, [had given way] to a childish whim . . . satisfying a momentary caprice." The sentence: three years' hard labor suspended (no jail time), and payment of witnesses' expenses...
...Judge Kawachi sought to establish motive. "Did you think Girard fired the shot at the woman in fun?" he asked Army Specialist Third Class Victor Nickel, who was with Girard when he fired. "Yes-for a joke," Nickel replied. Then the judge drew from a Japanese prosecution witness the testimony that Girard had at least shouted a warning ("Get outa here") to the woman before he fired, whereupon Girard weakened his own case and astonished the courtroom by denying it. "These discrepancies baffle me," said Judge Kawachi in a genial interim verdict at week...