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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Trudging home at nightfall from a hard day's work in the provincial city of Hikari, Laborer Noboru Kawamura, 30, passed a group of giggling girls. Drawing closer, Kawamura saw that they were crowded around a thin, bearded fortuneteller who was reading their palms. On impulse. Kawamura got in line and, when his turn came, paid over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: The Samurai's Grave | 12/29/1958 | See Source »

Flood or Fire. What he wanted to know, said Kawamura, was why he had been hagridden by bad luck since birth? "My parents died when I was a child; I have no living kin. I never met a girl who would marry me. I am being haunted, but I don't know what my crime has been." He poured out more of his woes: when he got a job, he was either fired or the company went bankrupt; when he tried to be a peddler, no one would buy his combs and bits of ribbon; he had failed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: The Samurai's Grave | 12/29/1958 | See Source »

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