RIP the American judges

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Part of writing history is to try to track down those small reminders that remain of the people who made that history. Scattered around the world are the graves of many of the judges of the British and American courts in China and Japan and the lawyers and parties who appeared before them. As described in Gunboat Justice, the best preserved graves are in the Yokohama and Kobe foreigners' cemetery - all the graves in China have disappeared. All of the American judges made it home. 5 out the 7 gentlemen who served as judges of the United States Court for China can be find on findagrave.com.

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The Japanese pot calling the Anglo-American kettle black

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As war between America and Britain and Japan loomed ever and ever closer in 1941, the Japanese upped their propaganda.  In this cartoon, they created a history of extraterritoriality based on evil opium pushing foreigners sucking the blood out of the Chinese heart. It could be used today by the Chinese government save that there is no mention of the Japanese and their imposition of extraterritoriality on China and their eventual occupation of the Eastern seaboard of China. Certainly a case of the pot calling the kettle black if there is one!

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The End of the Road for a Murderess

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What does a murderess do when she gets out of prison?  Edith Carew spent 14 years in prison for poisoning her husband Walter in Yokohama.  On her release from HM Prison Aylesbury, she moved to a small village in Wales, Cwm yr Eglwys, with one of her daughters.  She called her new home "Penfeidr" or, "end of the road" in Welsh.  It was, indeed, the end of the road for her.  She stayed in the village for the rest of her life. 

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