‘The care of rivers is the Way of Heaven’

Now that the physical destruction of the village had been accomplished, the interest of the outside world in the Yanaka affair declined sharply.

In defeat, it seemed, Shozo himself was not newsworthy; occasional references tended to dismiss him contemptuously as a socialist-an ironic consequence of the fact that a few idealistic Christian Socialists had been the only Tokyoites to lend him consistent moral support.1