Word: samurais
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...roving eye, Okichi was renowned for her beauty, her regal bearing and her torch songs. Her true love was her childhood sweetheart, a peasant carpenter named Tsuru-Matsu. but after Townsend Harris' ultimatum. Japanese officials lured Tsuru-Matsu away from Okichi with promises of making him a samurai. On the rebound from this desertion. Okichi agreed to go to lonely, kindly Consul Harris, and she fell in love with her middle-aged diplomatic Pinkerton...
...best and bloodiest middleweight fist fights in years, Utah's Gene Fullmer and France's Charles Humez cut each other up like feuding samurai for ten rounds at Madison Square Garden before Fullmer won the decision and, perhaps, a chance to send Champion Sugar Ray Robinson back to the nightclubs...
Ecclesiastics Are Politicians. Founder Uchimura, born to a samurai family in 1861, was introduced to Christianity at twelve, when a Tokyo schoolmate invited him "to a certain place in the foreigners' quarter, where we can hear pretty women sing and a tall, big man with a long beard shout and howl upon an elevated place, flinging his arms and twisting his body in all fantastic manners, to all of which admittance is entirely free." Later, at an American-founded agricultural school...
Died. Jiro Minami, 81, onetime hard-drinking, samurai-style Japanese army general (at 60 he was a good fencer, an expert with the broadsword), war minister in 1931, when the Japanese army marched into Manchuria, ambassador and commander-in-chief in Manchukuo 1934-36, tyrannical governor general of Korea 1936-42; of uremic poisoning; in Kamakura, Japan. In 1945, Minami was ordered arrested by General MacArthur with ten other class A war criminals; he was paroled last year from Tokyo's Sugamo Prison because of ill health...
...Samurai now propounds its moral: that a headstrong man is of no use to his nation unless he is tamed by virtue. While regiments of armed men scour the hills for Toshiro, a deceptively jolly priest (Kuroemon Onoe) and a frightened girl (Kaoru Yachigusa) ensnare him with kindness. Brought home, Toshiro is trussed up like a maniac and suspended from a tall tree. Each morning and evening the priest inquires if his spirit is broken, and Toshiro answers with howling curses. The girl frees the prisoner, but the wily priest traps Toshiro again, this time locks him in a tower...