Posted on 04/17/2007 7:33:44 PM PDT by Clemenza
“It was the second attack in the last 20 years against a mayor of Nagasaki, which was destroyed by a U.S. atomic bomb in 1945 and whose leaders have actively campaigned against militarism.”
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“”Mayor Ito had a strong and boundless passion for peace,” said Sunao Tsuboi, leader of a survivors’ group based in Hiroshima, a city also flattened by a U.S. atomic bomb in 1945. “We all pray for his recovery.””
Cheap gratuitous slap at the US.
You’re welcome...what I wrote is about the extent of my knowledge on Mishima.
The link has far more.
CD
The assassination of Asanuma was carried live on TV. Google it and you’ll find the video clip.
He later admitted to shooting Ito with a handgun with the intent to kill, Nagasaki chief investigator Kazuki Umebayashi said at a news conference.
Not exactly John Gotti eah?
Paul Schraeder made a film about him in the mid 1980s called ‘Mishima’.
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