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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...
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...
This in Japanese eyes put upon the murder an aspect which caused numerous Japanese, including two schoolgirls, to prick themselves last week and write with their blood passionate pleas for mercy which Presiding Judge Major General Seisaburo Sato had read out in court. "Boo-hoo!" sobbed the Samurai's Son bursting into tears at the tender sentiments of pity penned in "maiden's blood...
...earlier book of Author Sugimoto's, A Daughter of the Samurai, has been a best seller (80,000 copies), gave Author Christopher Morley "a secret notion that it will go on for years & years, making friends for itself and for the brave woman who wrote it, and also-this would please her most-friends for Japan." A Daughter of the Nohfu gave some readers last week the secret notion that no matter how Japanesily you slice it, Little Rollo is still baloney...
Daughter of a successful engineer who had adjusted himself to Westernization, Shidzué was educated at the Peeresses' School, where little Japanese princesses, even in their games, never forgot their rank or the distinction of their families. Shidzué's mother played the part of a samurai's wife as if giving a theatrical performance. Training her daughter in ancient Japanese graces, she made Shidzué study the difficult tea ceremony, saw to it that she mastered the intricate technique of flower arrangement. Shidzué felt about these instructions much as a Western child might feel about...