Word: yoshikawa
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...robes raised high their offerings-bean cake, teal ducks, brightly polished apples, flasks of rice wine. A special envoy of Emperor Hirohito bore a green, silk-covered chest emblazoned in gold with the Imperial 16-petal chrysanthemum seal. The celebration's chief speaker, Kashihara's Mayor Saburo Yoshikawa, 41, who has exchanged his Japanese Imperial General Staff major's uniform for white gloves and morning coat, was in excellent form. "It is only human nature to love one's country," he cried. "It is the left-wingers who are slandering our long and honorable Japanese history...
...creative and sexual instincts of mankind have been linked by eminent psychoanalysts who believe that when either is thwarted there are sad consequences. An extraordinary confirmation of this theory was noted last week by Tokyo's Asahi. Ryuichi Yoshikawa, a 27-year-old painter in Osaka, begged his parents and older brother to let him marry a geisha girl. They refused. That night, while the family slept, Ryuichi got a heavy knife and methodically chopped off the heads of his father, mother, sister, brother, sister-in-law, six-year-old nephew and three-year-old niece...