Word: sagoya
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Among politicians throughout Japan extreme indignation seethed at this decision by the Navy. Only a few days prior the Japanese Supreme Court had sustained the death sentence of the civilian Tomekichi Sagoya who also alleged patriotic motives for his shooting of Premier Yuko ("The Lion") Hamaguchi (TIME, Nov. 24, 1930). Unlike "The Old Fox" who died instanter at the hands of his Naval petty officer assassins, "The Lion" recovered partially from his wounds, lingered through a winter, spring and summer before dying. Why death for Civilian Tomekichi Sagoya, who almost failed to kill, when mere imprisonment was the sentence...
...struck dumb on hearing the sentence in the naval case. . . . You know the sentence imposed on Sagoya for shooting Hamaguchi...
From a high naval personage Rengo obtained this: "It was indeed a pity that Sagoya was condemned to death, contrasting with the just sentence of the Naval men. . . . Had even a single naval defendant been sentenced to death, unrest would have developed among the officers of the Imperial Navy...
Sirs: In reading your pellucid stories of Japanese state problems, particularly of those in connection with the shooting by ambitious, 23-year-old Tameo Sagoya of Premier Hamaguchi in a Tokyo railway station (TIME, Nov. 24), I do not recall any mention of the recent exorcising ceremonies performed there (in the station) by Buddhist high priests. Reports Graphic, Manila, P. I. weekly, for March 4: "This station was a hoodoo, a place tabooed by the superstitious residents of Tokyo. The rite was performed for the purpose of driving away the evil spirits. . . . "When the railway station was nearing completion...
...general was astounded. He had called at what he feared would be the death bed of his chief. Day before a young fanatic, one Tameo Sagoya, had put a bullet into the Prime Minister's abdomen, pierced the small intestine. In the cir cumstances it was remarkable that even Japan's dauntless old Lion should remember General Ugaki's tympanitis, roar at him feebly, "How's your...