Word: yakumo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Orleans. The papers were full of shocked, incredulous, hat-tearing letters to the editor. Once a New Orleans Jack-of-all-journalism, the late Lafcadio, master of delicate lyrical prose, had won his greatest fame as a writer on Japan. He had become a Japanese citizen, taken the name Yakumo Koizumi and a Japanese wife, begot three sons and a daughter. More than one letter last week suggested that his sons might now be killing American soldiers.* People got so excited because the Maritime Commission named a New Orleans-built Liberty ship the Lafcadio Hearn...
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