Word: kanji
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Living in a tiny, corrugated iron shack with no blankets and little food, the pair laboriously painted copies of 100-yen and 10-yen notes by hand. Kanji, a onetime mechanical draftsman, sold them apologetically at a 10% discount, explaining that the ink had been blurred in a faulty printing press. In ten months, the total take was less than...
...vaudeville gag told of a conceited counterfeiter who came to grief because he could not resist putting his own picture in place of George Washington's. Osaka's aging, ailing Counterfeiter Kanji Ikeda and his wife Yoshino were not vain, but they did arrange the serial numbers on their fake bills to read as messages to the son whose death in the war had turned their life to misery and despair. One of the Arabic numbers-797,423-read aloud in Japanese, meant: "Don't cry, honorable elder...
...crime did not pay for the Ikedas, at least courage and persistence did. Last week their counterfeiting came to an abrupt end as police closed in on their iron hovel. Citizens of Osaka, hearing the pathetic story of Kanji and Yoshino, promptly raised and sent to the jail a sympathy fund of 18,000 yen-almost twice what the Ikedas had been able to paint for themselves...
...Heads." A flurry of political activity followed. The Political Association of Great Japan, the nation's totalitarian party, prepared to disband-and to reorganize under new colors. The East Asia Federation, a patriotic society, made ready to enter politics; its leader seemed likely to be fanatical Lieut. General Kanji Ishihara, a retired Kwantung Army sword-rattler who helped plot the Manchurian adventure...