JAPAN: Death to Ozaki?

A thousand Japanese and squads of police stood on the docks at Kobe last week to watch a brave little old gentleman come home to what he believes certain assassination. The performance began almost immediately.

Converse with 74-year-old Yukio Ozaki, former Mayor of Tokyo and member of the Diet since that body first met in 1890, is made difficult by the fact that he is nearly stone deaf. But there is nothing the matter with his foresight. Far clearer than most of his countrymen, he has seen which way Japan was heading. An...

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