Word: nagata
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...true that the Japanese battleship Mutsu was sunk off Kiangyin by Chinese aircraft in the last week of November 1937? Is it true that Mutsu's sister ship Nagata was built...
...long regarded political assassination as legitimate and most killers of Japanese statesmen as heroes. To prepare the public for what came last week, the Imperial Government nervously sent before a firing squad fortnight ago Lieut. Colonel Saburo Aizawa, the "hero" who killed Director of Military Affairs General Tetsuzan Nagata last summer (TIME, Aug. 26). Before the firing squad blew his brains out, Hero Aizawa cried: "It is proper that a soldier should die to the sound of rifles. Flesh disintegrates but the soul lives on. Seven, even eight lives more will I devote to this imperial land...
After being dismissed from active duty by Lieutenant General Tetsuzan Nagata, one Lieutenant Colonel Saburo Aizawa, smouldering son of a Samurai and an expert fencing master, walked quietly into his superior's office, drew his Samurai blade, whanged Nagata over the head. As the General tried to escape, his junior ran him through from behind, laid the corpse on a table, slashed up its face...
Details of all this came vividly to light for the first time last week when a Tokyo court martial took up the famed case of Samurai Son Aizawa (TIME, Aug. 26). His defense was that General Nagata had been a friend of Japanese Government "bureaucrats," politicians, businessmen and other chicken-hearted civilians despised by the Fighting Services. Counsel for the defense loudly objected to the Prosecution's failure to state in the murder charge "the difference between public and private acts, the intrinsic nature of the Imperial Army, and the fact that the Supreme Army Command had been disturbed...
...father taught me to revere the Emperor," replied the accused. "I intended by assassinating General Nagata to support the Throne...