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Despite a 7 year investigation involving 170,000 police and list of 110,000 suspects, the crime remains unsolved to this day.
Shuji Terayama
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Terayama liked to tell people his own father was executed as a war criminal. The truth was more mundane.
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The Japanese Red Army militants who hi-jacked a JAL plane to Pyongyang in 1970 claimed “we are Tomorrow’s Joe.” The survivors remain in Pyongyang today and are now on Twitter.
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The “Queen of the Japanese Underground” stuck to her unique personal style – long black dress, dark glasses, cloud of cigarette smoke
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Matsu-san the sushi chef died in a car accident. Mari the hostess committed suicide and my father Hachiro died of disease when fighting in the war. My young cousin Tatsuo was stabbed to death.
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Two of Shuji Terayama’s maternally-themed tanka poems from the early 1960s.
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We’ll be talking about Terayama at the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation in London on May 30th
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