Word: shimura
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Dates: during 1947-1947
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...Tanimura last week, depressed over the failure of a candidate he backed in a local election, Taniyuki Shimura killed himself by biting off his tongue. In crime-ridden Tokyo, 24-year-old Kan Arai threw himself under a railroad train, "because by becoming a policeman I have discovered the corruption and dishonesty of sublunary affairs. It is useless to be a policeman in such a world...