Irritated when Japanese civilians scrambled recklessly across the U.S. Army's Somagahara rifle range near Tokyo in search of scrap metal, G.I. William S. Girard one day last January decided to get tough. He shoved an expended cartridge into the grenade launcher on his rifle, slid a blank into the rifle, and fired in the general direction of five civilians 30 yards away. The cartridge hit a 46-year-old woman in the back and killed her.
By last week the death of Mrs. Naka Sakai had become an international incident. Japan demanded that Girard be tried for manslaughter in a civilian court...
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