ABSTRACT
Leslie D. Alldritt In James Clavell's celebrated novel Shogun, the following description appears: "Jan Roper interrupted, 'Wait a minute, Vinck! What's wrong, Pilot? What about eters?' 'It is just that the Japanese think of them as different. They're the executioners, and work the hides and handle corpses.'" I Elsewhere in the book the term eta ["eters"] appears, yet an explanation of these people is never provided.
