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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 .
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.
One of the targets was former Workers' Party treasurer Paulo Adalberto Alves Ferreira , arrested on 24 June, when he was the target of Operation Brazil Cost, an offshoot of Operation Car Wash that investigated fraud in Law 10.820 loans (Crédito consignado [i]) to civil servants. Ferreira was the target of a preventive detention warrant.
STORY: 70-year-old Japanese farmer, Masahiro Hoshina, has been growing wasabi in Okutama, west of downtown Tokyo, for years.But as typhoon season approaches, he’s getting concerned about his ...
Japanese farmer Kiyoharu Hirao has started to add more rice to the mix he gives his cattle in order to stretch his money further as a plunging yen drives up the cost of imported corn used in ...
Handcuffing allowed the government to punish a criminal while he was under house arrest. Depending on the severity of the crime, the sentence might last 30, 50, or 100 days. [citation needed] Flagellation was a common penalty for crimes such as theft and fighting. Amputation of the nose or ears replaced flogging as penalty early in the Edo period.
John Pendarvis, a licensed South Carolina hemp grower who was arrested in 2019 for growing hemp, names SLED Chief Mark Keel, S.C. Attorney General Alan Wilson, and Commissioner of the S.C ...