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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...creative and sexual instincts of mankind have been linked by eminent psychoanalysts who believe that when either is thwarted there are sad consequences. An extraordinary confirmation of this theory was noted last week by Tokyo's Asahi. Ryuichi Yoshikawa, a 27-year-old painter in Osaka, begged his parents and older brother to let him marry a geisha girl. They refused. That night, while the family slept, Ryuichi got a heavy knife and methodically chopped off the heads of his father, mother, sister, brother, sister-in-law, six-year-old nephew and three-year-old niece...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Experience Unnecessary | 3/28/1938 | See Source »

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