Japan Times 1971: Five men storm the Diet and hurl fire bombs

Japan's largest business mission ever sent to foreign countries will leave Tokyo Central station at 10:51 o'clock this morning for Yokohama, to sail at 3 o'clock this afternoon for the United States. Containing representatives of Japan's key industries, many of its members being leaders in the industrial development of the Japanese Empire, the Business Men's Mission, as it is officially known, will have a significance to the business men of America and the United Kingdom, which it will visit later. Final preparations for the departure of the members of the party were completed yesterday afternoon, a business meeting in which certain divisions of the party were made, being followed by a tiffin at the Industrial Club this was the last formal assembly of the members of the party until they meet this morning at Tokyo Station. At yesterday's business session there was a brief discussion of the divisions in the general group, which will be made after the party reaches New York City. It was announced that Dr. Takuma Dan, the leader of the party, would be forced because of his recent illness, to postpone his departure until the sailing of the Empress of Russia, Saturday, Oct. 22.