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...SHUNJI YAMAGUCHI...
Young (36) Tokyo District Court Judge Yoshitada Yamaguchi was an honest man. When his wife pleaded with him to sell some clothes and family possessions to buy food on the black market, he replied: "How can one who judges others do any black marketing?" When his father sent extra food from Kyushu island, he turned it all over to his family. He and his wife subsisted, precariously, on thin soup and corn meal gruel. Their food rations went to their two young sons...
...last spring Yamaguchi was suffering from extreme malnutrition. Last August he collapsed from tuberculosis. In his diary the dying judge wrote: "The Food Control Law is a bad law, but as long as it is law the people must obey it. ... There are judges I know who buy on the black market pretending that their hands are clean. When I consider that I am alone in marching on death with a clean slate, I forget all my troubles and sorrows." Last month he died...
...triumphs. Among the best was Raid on Pearl Harbor (painted from an aerial photograph) by Fujita, a little man in bangs and Harold Lloyd spectacles who once wowed Paris with his brush drawings of cats and catlike women. Other standouts: Junkichi Mukei's Bataan Death March and Hoshin Yamaguchi's General Attack on Hong Kong, which had an Oriental delicacy of line only partly obscured by smoke from the burning city...
...G.I.s, the few paintings of Japanese defeat seemed absurdly dignified. Renzo Kita's Last Moments of Admiral Yamaguchi showed the Admiral among his officers on the flaming flight deck of the aircraft carrier Hiryo, preparing with a tight smile to toast the Emperor in sake...