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Guest of Honor. In Numata, Japan, one Tomonsuke Namba attended a banquet celebrating his election to the town council, next day was arrested for having picked the pockets of three guests...
Over every coffee table-from the politicos' favorite Tupi-Namba café on Montevideo's palm-graced Plaza Independencia to the café in the Hotel Oriental in cattle-raising Treinta y Tres-the talk was of elections. On Nov. 24, Uruguayans would vote for everything from dog-catcher to President...
...this was brought about, all this endured, because in 1924 the youthful scapegrace of the family, Daisuke Namba, attempted to slay Prince Regent Hirohito of Japan (TIME, Jan. 7, 1924). Though Daisuke was found guilty at an extraordinary session of the Supreme Court and hanged, his father, broken with grief and shame, resigned from the Diet, and enjoined upon his family and himself a voluntary retirement until Death should harvest their lives...
Next day a royal command was borne to Matasaro Namba. Bowing humbly he received it. Perhaps it was the will of Prince Hirohito that the family of his would-be assassin should perform some even harsher expiation...
...instant later Matasaro Namba's worn impassive face lighted with an elation not to be suppressed. Gravely he informed the royal messenger that the Nambas would obey as always the Prince Regent's will. They would unbar their gates, allow their children to romp once more in the sunshine. They would resume the normal lives of loyal Japanese. In token of their entire release from all humiliation, they would abandon the irredeemably besmirched name of Namba, assume that of Kurokawa...