The Unknown Patriot

The body of the unknown Japanese patriot who committed hara-kiri several months ago close to the compound of the former U. S. Embassy (TIME, June 9) as a protest against the enactment of the U. S. Immigration Bill (TIME. April 28, June 2, et seq.) is to be disinterred from Aoyama Cemetery and reinterred in the military cemetery where lie some of Japan's greatest heroes.

It was due to Mitsuru Toyama, head of the Black Dragon Society--an organization active in agitation against the U. S. after the passage of the recent U. S. exclusion bill--that permission was accorded to exhume the unknown patriot and give him what is virtually a national burial. In the military cemetery, a great tomb will be erected over the grave, and its position will be near the last resting place of General Nogi who distinguished himself in the Russo-Japanese War and who committed hara-kiri on the night of the funeral of the Emperor Meiji.