Word: amakasu
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...chaotic days following the great Japanese earthquake of 1923 a young police captain, Masahiko Amakasu, held in his custody a Socialist leader, Sakai Osugi. Amakasu was a member of a group of young Japanese firebrands who vehemently denounced internationalism, who were then seriously beginning a successful struggle to make the army master of the Japanese Government. In cold blood, with his own hands, Captain Amakasu strangled his internationally-minded prisoner. He deputed to a subordinate the less important job of garroting Osugi's wife and 10-year...
Brought to trial, Captain Amakasu had a good defense: he had gained nothing by Osugi's death; his was a purely patriotic murder. He was given only seven years and he was out in a little more than two. When the Japanese Army entered Manchuria and set up the so-called state of Manchukuo, Amakasu went over to help occupy, was presently active in Manchukuo's "General Affairs Bureau." Naturally he was appointed vice-chairman of a Manchukuoan Good Will and Economic Mission of 26 members which recently set out for a tour of Italy, the Vatican City...
...such widely separated nations the good-willers necessarily had to pass through other countries, including England and the U. S. To 25 Manchukuoan glad-handers, British and U. S. consular authorities last week had readily granted visas. But neither Britain nor the U. S. would grant the honorable Mr. Amakasu even a transit visa. To Britain a murderer is still an "undesirable alien." to the U. S. a murderer is still guilty of "moral turpitude," to both a murderer is a murderer...
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