Category Archive: Japan - History

Teigin Incident: How a painter was convicted for mass murder

Teigin Incident: How a painter was convicted for mass murder

米寿 (beiju, 88 years old), a self-portrait by Sadamichi Hirasawa on the occasion of his 88th birthday From Bloomberg comes this fascinating account of a well-known …

 

Campaign poster, Tanforan Assembly Center, 1942

Campaign poster, Tanforan Assembly Center, 1942

Full title: Building of the Tanforan Center are plastered at this time with all manner of locally devised posters incident to the election of five …