Word: nagaoka
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Young in Heart. In Tokyo, government ordinance was blamed by 8 2-year-old Kura Nagaoka for her retirement after 70 years as a practicing geisha...
Last week, police turned up a middle-aged "sun goddess," 45-year-old Yoshika Nagaoka. During the war she had counseled many Japanese generals; now, as "Jiko-san" (Divine Light), she got financial support from Japanese aristocrats and militarists, averaged $16,000 a month in contributions. Over her temple in Kanazawa, Jiko-san flew the red "meatball" flag of Imperial Japan; to her followers she restated the basic State Shinto principles of hakko ichi-u-the whole world under Japan's Emperor. Jiko-san had included General Douglas MacArthur and Generalissimo Joseph Stalin in her cabinet of lesser deities...