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...Organ Concert at Appleton Chapel of Memorial Church. Yuko Hayashi, Faculty, New England Conservatory...
...Coincidence. This year Japanese climbers brought along a Nepalese military escort, a large collection of Buddhist books, cases of smallpox vaccine and a $550 contribution for the ruined monastery. Even so, Sama's citizens prepared to do battle. Then the Japanese played their ace. They introduced their leader, Yuko Maki, 62, a Tokyo manure dealer, who happened, by careful coincidence, to be just as devout a Buddhist as the Samians. Maki passed on all the gifts and made his pitch: as a Buddhist, his trek up Manaslu would be a pilgrimage, not a desecration. What's more...
Among politicians throughout Japan extreme indignation seethed at this decision by the Navy. Only a few days prior the Japanese Supreme Court had sustained the death sentence of the civilian Tomekichi Sagoya who also alleged patriotic motives for his shooting of Premier Yuko ("The Lion") Hamaguchi (TIME, Nov. 24, 1930). Unlike "The Old Fox" who died instanter at the hands of his Naval petty officer assassins, "The Lion" recovered partially from his wounds, lingered through a winter, spring and summer before dying. Why death for Civilian Tomekichi Sagoya, who almost failed to kill, when mere imprisonment was the sentence...
First assassinated was Yuko Hamaguchi, the onetime Premier whose concessions to peace in the London Naval Treaty cost him his life; Second Junnosuke Inouye, the soundest and most brilliant Japanese Finance Minister in a generation; and Third Dr. Dan?to name only the Big Three. Biggest as a Peace Man, from the practical standpoint, was Banker Dan. He had thrown the weight of Mitsui Gomel Kaisha against war, unsuccessfully...
...Heaven who thus equipped him with sufficient social prestige to represent Japan fittingly at the Washington Conference (1921-22). Since then he has been several times Foreign Minister, served as Acting Premier (TIME, Nov. 24) when his old friend and classmate at the Tokyo Imperial University, Premier Yuko Hamaguchi ("The Lion") was skewered by a would-be assassin's dagger and lingered on to die last month...