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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...stern exception to this easygoing rule is 70-year-old Mrs. Waka Yamada, who looks on concubines in about the way that Carry Nation looked on saloonkeepers. Sometimes admitted to the courts as a "special attorney," Mrs. Yamada argues her cause eloquently. Last January she won a precedent-shattering acquittal for a wife who admitted having murdered her husband's concubine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: No Quarter for Concubines | 6/12/1950 | See Source »

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