JAPANESE LOVE AFFAIR.
ENDS IX DOUBLE SUICIDE. POPULAR NOVELIST AND WOMEN'S LEADER. [By Electric Cable— Copyright] [Aust. and N.Z. Cable Association ] TOKIO, July 9. A sensation has been caused in Tokio society by the discovery to-day of th e bodies in Tokio of Arishma, the most popular novelist in Japan, and Mrs. Akiko Hatano, a leader of the Japanese women's movement and wife of a prominent business man, hanging' from silk scarfs ina villa belonging- to Arishma. It was a case, of double suicide, Arising- out of a hopeless love affair. A| letter to the woman's husband urged i him to take the matter with equanimity and to make no excuses to their friends because she and Arishma were only following- their fate. The couple I disappeared a month ago, but their ! friends had not informed the police, and did not conduct a search. Tradesmen, forcing an entrance to the villa found th 0 bodies.
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Manawatu Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 2694, 12 July 1923, Page 5
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