Word: maebashi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...columnists and Congressmen who screamed injustice last spring, when U.S. Soldier William S. Girard was turned over to Japanese courts, had reckoned without Judge Yuzo Kawachi of the Maebashi District Court. As the Girard trial went into its third week, Judge Kawachi donned raincoat and rubbers and a peasant's wide-brimmed straw hat, took the court sloshing through mud and drenching rain to the hilltop of the U.S. Army firing range where Girard shot a Japanese woman in the back and killed her while she was scavenging for scrap metal (TIME, May 27 et seq.). Meticulously the judge...
...steaming, jampacked courtroom in Maebashi, 60 miles northwest of Tokyo, U.S. Army Specialist Third Class William S. Girard went on trial for manslaughter. In court last week, eying him coldly, was the teen-age daughter of the 46-year-old Japanese woman whom Girard shot in the back on a firing range seven months ago. Until the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Japan had the right to try him (TIME, July 22), the Girard case was headline material on both sides of the Pacific and the focal point, in the U.S., of more jingoistic and uninformed editorial comment than perhaps...
...Sorry." Girard, his pompadour and long sideburns carefully cropped and brushed, arrived in Maebashi for the trial still under the 24-hour guard set over him since he went AWOL on a drinking spree a few weeks ago. In the dock he sat uncomfortably, gazing dazedly at the three-judge tribunal, his onetime swagger gone. When the charge was read out, Chief Judge Yuzo Kawachi summoned Girard to the witness stand and beamed at him like a benign headmaster. "You don't have to answer any questions unless you want to," said Kawachi. "Is there anything you want...
...Japan, Soldier Girard telephoned his mother in Ottawa, Ill. to tell her: "Don't cry. I know I'll get a fair trial." He believed he would be acquitted by the Japanese court (presumably on a showing of accident). Maebashi District Judge Yuzo Kawachi, who will preside over Girard's trial, said the decision was "just what I expected-very good." In a banner-headline story, Tokyo's Asahi Evening News reported: "At no time since the signing of the San Francisco peace treaty have Japanese thought so kindly of the U.S. and the American ideal...