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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...
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...
...fortuneteller studied Kawamura's palm, said gravely: "You are indeed accursed. But I can tell you how to end all your troubles. Go to the little field that lies outside your home. There you will find a neglected grave, the burial place of an ancient samurai. His spirit is angry and is taking revenge on the nearest living person, and that happens to be you. It is necessary that you appease...
Nervously, Kawamura suggested it might be simpler to move away...
Bowed with shame Governor Mitsunosuke Kamiyama of Formosa resigned, last week, to expiate the stigma cast upon his administration. President Takeji Kawamura of the South Manchurian Railway Co., laid down his duties as such last week, to pop into the vacated governorship...