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Kazuo Nagano (永野 一男, Nagano Kazuo, August 1, 1952 – June 18, 1985) was a Japanese fraudster. He was chairman of Toyota Shoji [ ja ] (unrelated to the car manufacturing company ), a fraudulent gold investment company, which was responsible for swindling 3,855 people, mostly elderly, out of 12 billion yen .
Kiuchi Sōgorō (木内 惣五郎), also known as Sakura Sōgorō (佐倉 惣五郎) (1605 – September 1653) was a legendary Japanese farmer whose real family name was Kiuchi. He is said to have appealed directly to the shōgun in 1652 when he was serving as a headman of one of the villages in the Sakura Domain .
Saitou is said to have returned to the government office and surrendered himself as the ringleader, joining two other farmers who had been accused (蓬田半佐衛門・猪狩源七). The three were brutally tortured and subsequently executed on the riverbed bordering present day Date City and Koori Town on April 17 of the year following the ...
Edo period wood block print showing police wearing chain armour under their kimono, and using jitte, sasumata, sodegarami, and tsukubo to capture criminals on a roof top. In feudal Japan, individual military and citizens groups were primarily responsible for self-defense until the unification of Japan by Tokugawa Ieyasu in 1603.
Yet the recent FX/Hulu retelling of James Clavell’s epic novel set in feudal Japan brought the story into the 21st century with a production that improved on it in fundamental ways, while ...
The koku is a Japanese unit of measurement equal to about 180 litres, or 5 bushels. [7] The power of feudal lords was often directly quantified by their output in koku rather than acreage of land ownership or military might. [8] In fact, the amount of military service required from a vassal depended on the koku of their specific fief.
A Japanese business executive who was detained in Myanmar for more than a month has been released after being convicted of violating rice pricing rules, officials said Tuesday. Hiroshi Kasamatsu ...
Koda Farms is changing. The fields of this family farm just outside of Dos Palos in our San Joaquin Valley will be different. Ross and Robin Koda are harvesting their last rice crop, ending a ...