Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...much political responsibility had three years of U.S. occupation brought to Japan? Not enough to keep Tokyo's Kosuge prison from bulging last week with financiers and high government officials involved in the Showa Denko bribery case...
Outside the open prison door they found a fat Sternist with thin red hair, lazily cracking fried watermelon seeds between his teeth. When a prison warden barred their entrance, the journalists appealed to the Sternist. He ushered them in and rounded up some fellow prisoners for a press conference. Prison guards fretfully pleaded that this was against regulations. Some prisoners crossed the square and returned with bottles of cold beer for their friends; they used the handle of the jail door as a bottle opener...
...Little Fraternizing. Nobody knew how many Sternists had escaped. Complained one prison official: "It is impossible to count them now because they won't stay in one place. But they have promised to give us a count tonight." A Sternist spokesman thought more than half had returned to the jail; he expected more to come back "if they can get through the police lines." It was only a protest demonstration, not a jailbreak, he explained. "We have just been out doing a little fraternization with...
During the night, while the Sternists slept, units of the Israeli army ringed the jail with armored cars at ten-yard intervals. A loudspeaker in the courtyard summoned the prisoners to come out in groups of five and submit to search. As they surrendered, they were bundled off under heavy guard to the high-walled prison fortress of Acre. At the last count, 20 to 40 prisoners were still missing. Said a bemused government spokesman: "They probably went home to see their families and will be back in a few days...
...leaders of Japan's four major parties last week got together to bargain for posts in the new cabinet. Cynical Japanese newsmen drew up and published a roster of their own, made up entirely of high officials now held in Kosuge prison. Just then, police announced the latest Showa Denko arrest: Kosuge's Warden Ito was charged with accepting bribes from his Oh-mono to help them communicate with their colleagues still outside...