Word: samurais
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...Horace Jr., 22, clasped hands on the rear seat of their automobile in a tightly closed garage until asphyxiated by carbon monoxide from the exhaust. For 32 years the Colemans had been Quaker missionaries in Japan. They had steeped themselves in Japanese Bushido, the ethical code of the samurai which prescribes harakiri for those facing shame. Learning that Clara B. McGill, a destitute young girl whom the Colemans had sheltered, had made a complaint that Horace Coleman Jr. had betrayed her, they left a note: "This way accords with our peculiar ideas in cases where conditions warrant...
Stiff, unexpected Chinese resistance to the Japanese drive (which last week had been held up at Shanghai for exactly a month) was probably the factor that made Japanese Generals and Admirals uneasiest. Once in battle, a Japanese samurai ("two-sworded man") is barred by the Samurai Code from calling for help. A samurai is Lieut.-General Uyeda, Japanese military commander at Shanghai last week. When he and his army got utterly to the end of their rope, Samurai Uyeda did not call for help. But his good friend Admiral Nomura called and Tokyo sent help, sent enough troops to double...
Crescent's Tip, Petite Masako, Baroness Shidehara is an Iwasaki, daughter of Japan's No. 2 house of merchant princes (Mitsubishi), the famed Mitsui being No. 1. When she married Diplomat Shidehara he was no baron though he belonged to a Samurai (feudal sword bearer) family. In the past 30 years he has held diplomatic posts almost everywhere, but got his real leg up to greatness as Chief of the Telegraph Section of the Foreign Office, a key post because the holder has access to all Foreign Office codes & secrets, and secrets play a major role in the devious statecraft...
While Ambassador to the U. S. (1919-22) Samurai Shidehara was made a Baron (1920) by the Son of Heaven who thus equipped him with sufficient social prestige to represent Japan fittingly at the Washington Conference (1921-22). Since then he has been several times Foreign Minister, served as Acting Premier (TIME, Nov. 24) when his old friend and classmate at the Tokyo Imperial University, Premier Yuko Hamaguchi ("The Lion") was skewered by a would-be assassin's dagger and lingered on to die last month...
...berth was a dark sodden pool of blood, upon it in terrible agony writhed Lieutenant-Commander Yeiji Kusakari. He had chosen the most painful and for a Samurai the most noble death: harakiri. With a short dagger which had belonged in medieval times to one of his ancestors he had slashed his abdomen through and through...