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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Blood & Tears | 2/10/1936 | See Source »

Merchant Nato, realizing that he now knew too much to be safe from assassination if he refused to contribute, grudgingly gave 60,000 yen, prepared to sell short. Meanwhile the plotters approached slackjowled Commander Saburo Yamaguchi, Inspector of Aircraft at Yokosuka Naval Base. Soon this simple officer had been pumped full of a patriotic idea: "Japan must be liberated from Parliament, Capitalism must be crushed, and pure Emperor-rule restored!" Fired with loyal zeal, Commander Yamaguchi agreed to drop bombs upon a Japanese Cabinet session, to blow up Tokyo's Metropolitan Police Station...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: God-Sent Troops | 9/30/1935 | See Source »

...down again in the bleachers and slept through what he had come to see. Deputy Marshal McBride of Utica, Miss, had an argument with James H. Llewellyn at a filling station; Llewellyn drew a knife: McBride shot him dead. Reporter Tsunekawa of the Osaka Mainichi Shimbun and Reporter Saburo Suzuki of the Tokyo and Osaka Asahi sat among 105 telegraphers and sent stories by direct cable to Japan. In 15 Chicago public schools children marched two by two into assembly halls, listened to broadcasting, later told their fathers, many of whom complained by letter against "miseducation.'' Eight ticket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: World Series | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

...Osaka, Japan, one Senichiro Tokuriki, shoemaker, lived with his wife until his two sons, Kazuo and Saburo, had reached the age of 18 and 19 respectively. Then, thinking that they were doubtless competent to fend for the woman, he chose another wife (a very lotus blossom for fairness) and moved away. The mother grieved herself to the edge of death, and the two lads, seeing that it was no laughing matter, took counsel together. They thought of a way to make their father come home. One night when there was no moon they stole out of the house and made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Nov. 9, 1925 | 11/9/1925 | See Source »

...Died. Saburo Shimada, 71, Japanese politician and long one of the ablest lieutenants of the late Marquis Okuma...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Nov. 26, 1923 | 11/26/1923 | See Source »

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