Word: shintani
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...accomplished it. All they had to show for their efforts was a dead female fellow conspirator, accidentally killed by her own hand grenade at the start of the skyjacking and an obliterated $29 million airplane. "It was the most hopelessly baffling case," said Japanese Transportation Minister Torasaburo Shintani, who was ready to offer as much as $5,000,000 in ransom. "From start to finish we never knew what they wanted. Money we were prepared to pay and political asylum too. We're still in the dark...
Captain K. Shintani, in charge of the fukuryu program, explained these plans to Commander M. H. Pryor of the U.S. Naval Technical Mission in Japan. He ruefully admitted that the new weapon might not have been decisive, but the Japanese had hoped they would cause as much damage as the Kamikazes (suicide planes), which accounted for 80% of the 223 U.S. ships damaged during the Okinawa campaign...
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