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...favorite motto. He carries an umbrella, calls himself a Fabian and has as little as possible to do with Kyuichi Tokuda's Communist Party. During Diet sessions, he can be seen, surrounded by Japanese newsmen, eating a lunch of rice and radish from a plain aluminum lunchbox. After the day's deliberations, he drives himself home in a stubby midget...
...samurai-a warrior knight. But the father was a sickly samurai, and after the Meiji Restoration in 1868, which abolished the samurai, the family went broke. Little Kichisaburo had to be satisfied with lowly sweet potatoes instead of more expensive rice in his school lunchbox, and he earned a few coppers as a fishmonger's delivery...
...daughter married that she smothered the engagement with her good intentions. She told the young man that they were comfortable, and that the daughter was not used to house work. Whereupon the girl, so shamed by these activities, renounced her outing in the country, deserted the lunchbox on the table and went in for a good cry. Father finally fitted things together for the final curtain...