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Word: remmei (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1946-1946
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Working through the powerful Shindo Remmei society, the swindlers had sparked fanatics into a homicidal campaign against all Japs "who did not behave like patriots and deny the lie of Japan's defeat." A gang, rounded up outside a small town in the state of Sâo Paulo, was typical. "It is an honor," shouted one gunman, ". . . [to murder] our defeatist countrymen!" For showing "defeatism," 70 Japs have met death in the past five months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: Honorable Homicide | 8/26/1946 | See Source »

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