On Sun, 31 Oct 2004 14:12:20 +0900, Eric Takabayashi
<etakajp@yahoo.co.jp> brought down from the Mount tablets inscribed:

>Michael Cash wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 30 Oct 2004 20:32:08 -0500, "John W." <worthj1970@yahoo.com>
>> brought down from the Mount tablets inscribed:
>>
>> >Which paper? Wasn't the government more or less in control of the press
>> >at that time?
>>
>> 東京日日新聞
>>
>> Eric has pointed out that it also appeared in the 大阪毎日新聞, but I
>> have discovered that from 1911 the two papers were affiliated. It also
>> appeared in the Japan Advertiser, but since that was one of the
>> forerunners of the Japan Times, it is likely that they were just
>> translating an article from the 東京日日新聞
>
>But then why are there differing versions, and differing counts?

I wasn't aware there are. 

But if there are, they had to come from somewhere. And it is most
interesting that the only sources we ever see cited are the 日日/毎日
(which we may as well count as a single source) and the Japan
Advertiser, which almost certainly lifted the story wholesale from a
Japanese paper (most likely the 日日).

Where are all the accounts of physical evidence and eyewitness
testimony that would establish this more firmly? It wasn't around
immediately after the war, and the guys were acquitted. 











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Michael Cash

"I am sorry, Mr. Cash, but we are unable to accept your rap sheet in lieu of
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                                Dr. Howard Sprague
                                Dean of Admissions
                                Mount Pilot College