Word: yamaguchi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...police headquarters, the assassin calmly identified himself as Otoya Yamaguchi, 17, told detectives his only regret was failing to kill Communist Sanzo Nosaka and Japan Teachers' Union Chairman Takeshi Kobayashi as well as Asanuma. He had planned to bag all three. The sword, he explained, was a wakizashi, the kind worn by samurai until 1876, when the government forbade people to carry them. He had found it only the week before in the bottom of his father's closet...
John Gunther's High Road (ABC 8-8:30 p.m.). Part II of Japan: The People, Screen Star Shirley Yamaguchi conducts a guided tour of Oriental home life
Nobusuke was born in Yamaguchi, a pleasant city above the Inland Sea, on Nov. 23, 1896. From childhood he had drummed into him the glories of the Sato family, the Choshu clan and the warrior class. Aristocratic Moyo Sato constantly reminded her son that their ancestors had been charged by the Emperor with guarding Shimonoseki Strait, the gateway to the Inland Sea. Her uncle was a major general who founded the Japanese cavalry; her brothers and sisters married into top families, including the Matsuokas and Yo-shidas. "Never forget you are a samurai," she said. "Never take second place...
...time for Kishi. He was followed about Tokyo by the secret police, and devoted himself to writing a long defense of his position that no newspaper dared print. After his suburban house was burned down in an air raid, Kishi and his wife and two children went back to Yamaguchi. He was lying sick in bed when the atom bomb fell on Hiroshima, only 70 miles away...