JAPAN: Disgruntled

In Tokyo stood a low rambling structure of wood and stucco, in which the Japanese House of Peers and House of Representatives have been cooped and cramped for decades. Last week entered several students where many a statesman has trod.

Neither peers nor representatives, they had come to take the Japanese bar examination. When the papers were passed out to them they became disgruntled at the difficulty of the questions, and they are said to have bethought themselves of a way out of their difficulties as practicable as it was breathtaking. Having...

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