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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 .
Ritsuryō (律令, Japanese: [ɾitsɯɾʲoː]) is the historical legal system based on the philosophies of Confucianism and Chinese Legalism in Feudal Japan. The political system in accord to Ritsuryō is called "Ritsuryō-sei" (律令制). Kyaku (格) are amendments of Ritsuryō, Shiki (式) are enactments.
In Feudal Japan between 1185 CE and 1868 CE [citation needed], vassals offered their loyalty and services (military or other) to a landlord in exchange for access to a portion of land and its harvest. In such a system, political power is diverted from a central monarch and control is divided up amongst wealthy landowners and warlords.
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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 .
PEORIA, Ill. (WCIA) — A man from Farmer City and a woman from Maroa have been sentenced to federal prison after they pleaded guilty to fraud and identity theft charges. Federal court records ...
After the end of the Tokugawa shogunate with the Meiji Restoration of 1868, Japanese agriculture was dominated by a tenant farming system. The Meiji government based its industrialization program on tax revenues from private land ownership, and the Land Tax Reform of 1873 increased the process of landlordism, with many farmers having their land confiscated due to inability to pay the new taxes.
A Chicago appeals court has found two prominent lawyers who frequently object to class action settlements committed “a fraud on the court” and referred them to state authorities for possible ...