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...samurai-turned-sakebrewer, Sato was born in the somnolent town of Tabuse, on Honshu's far eastern coast, just 100 miles from the Straits of Tsushima, where in Sato's fifth year Admiral Heihachiro Togo destroyed the Russian fleet. That was the year of Japan's greatest military success, but little of it rubbed off on Eisaku. Sato's older brother, Nobusuke Kishi,* was the star of the family, graduated second in his class at Tokyo University law school (Sato was much lower). In 1941, Kishi became one of the youngest Cabinet ministers in Japanese history...
...satisfied with being a middleman, he branched out into large-scale smuggling. Han's fleet of speedboats, powered by salvaged aircraft engines and diesel tank motors, easily outdistanced coast guard patrol boats on the short, 40-mile run between South Korean landing coves and the Japanese island of Tsushima; on land, Han's Jeep convoys loaded with booty defiantly traveled without license plates and with their own armed guard. It was a profitable two-way trade: to Japan he ferried Koreans who each paid $150-$300 for the illegal passage; from Japan he smuggled contraband cosmetics, toys, transistor...
...perhaps unequaled until World War II: an unbroken journey of 4,500 miles from Madagascar to the coast of Cochin China, despite 39 stops to repair tow lines, more than 70 engine breakdowns. And it was with oxlike fortitude that he brought his two wallowing columns into battle off Tsushima (literally Donkey's Ears Island). Maneuvering for position, Togo took his column through a perilous column turn and closed with nearly 500 guns blazing. The Russian ships, which had damaged three major enemy ships, failed to score a single hit after the first bloody half-hour. Only one Russian...
Over a period of nearly five years, ever-increasing numbers (latest count: 952) of Japanese fishermen have languished in South Korean President Syngman Rhee's jails across the Tsushima Strait, pawns in a diplomatic stalemate created entirely by Rhee's longstanding hatred of Japan. "Korea has only three enemies." cried Rhee recently: "Japan, Russia and China...
Charcoal supplies were one-third of normal, and at Tsushima a village school was established to teach returning soldiers to make charcoal...