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...LONGER HUMAN (177 pp.)-Osamu Dazai-New Directions...
...afternoon of Aug. 10, 1945, Osamu Satano's superior officers took him to an open field near the Fukuoka crematory in northern Kyushu. There Satano had to "volunteer" to behead a captured U.S. B-29 airman. After he had swung the executioner's sword, Satano watched one of his officers torture another prisoner to death by shooting arrows...
...first began conducting war crimes trials in Japan late in 1945, 124 Japanese had been sentenced to hang, 62 to life imprisonment and some 650 to prison terms ranging from a few months to 50 years. More than 150 others were acquitted or dismissed. With the case of Osamu Satano, U.S. prosecutors closed their books. There would be no more war crimes trials in Japan...
Rear Admiral Osamu Sato, the highest Japanese Naval official in China who is stationed there as naval attaché, divulged to correspondents that the Japanese Government is now pressing the Chinese Government to accept "certain mild general principles" which are actually harsher than Japan's notorious Twenty-One Demands of 1915. Under the first "mild" principle, each Chinese Government army campaigning against Chinese Communists in the interminable civil wars and skirmishes must have with it a Japanese army of equal numbers. Under the second "mild" principle, each official of the Chinese Government, including those of its defense forces...
...TIME, Dec. 9). The soul of even the most bellicose Japanese is at peace in awe and wonder before marvels of Chinese Art. To the white delegates, most of whom did not escape inner qualms similar to an inferiority complex in Burlington House, sturdy little Japanese Chief Delegate Admiral Osamu Nagano explained exquisite niceties with elegance and charm...