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There was a notable vacancy this week among the ghosts of Bushido warriors who circle endlessly above Tokyo's Yasukuni shrine. The AWOL god was Naval Warrant Officer Magoshichi Sugino, who was racked up among the immortals 42 years ago when (supposedly) he lost his life in Admiral Heihachiro Togo's crippling attack on the Russian Far Eastern fleet at Port Arthur...
Last week hale, hearty, undeniably mortal and a little shamefaced, old Magoshichi Sugino came home to Japan-the first modern Kamikaze, and one of the few who ever came back...
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