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Show 161 In the Detachments there had been an important change: the operational section at Taira ahd been made a separate company. Because of its function (more truly intelligence than the administrative CP at Naka) Taira had always held a subtle superiority in the pecking order, and when G2 in Tokyo, during one of the periodical reorganizations to which bureaucracy is subject upgraded the section and replaced Ken Murakami with a captain, Oji's social skeins grew tangled. Murakami was temporarily assigned to QM until orders returning him to the States could be cut. The new CO, Franklin Lambert, was a plain, honest man who pegged his actions to one loyalty at a time, the army being the latest. If the Army said Oji, Oji it was. His wife Harriet, however, was less complaisant, but in this transfer believed that her life had taken a turn for the better, for the past year they had been stuck in Otsu, a vast American-style tract hardly distinguishable, in looks, style or hope, from Anaheim. Otsu was close to Kyoto but not a part of it; Kyoto's generals hardly deigned |