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The mysterious death of a railway executive

Tokyo Redux by David Peace, Knopf, 464 pages, $28 One of the major incidents of the seven-year postwar occupation of Japan occurred in 1949. Sadanori Shimoyama, president of the newly reorganized Japan National Railways, disembarked from his company limousine and walked into a Tokyo department store around 9:30 am on July 5, supposedly to shop […]

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